YAMAHA DX7IID Demo & Review

[@jolesco]

I think of Mario64 and the "Dire,Dire Docks" level at the start of this video

[@getulioprates]

My favourite Fm piano tune!

[@glanemann]

It is truly a treat to see someone who has mastered their craft play on an instrument that they can just play 100%. If I had a DX7 I would just goof around with it, but the reason that synthesizer was made was for people like him who know how to use it!

[@星野和弘-o6p]

他、目まラタ屋）やぢむやｇｗｐｓｐ４Ｗ＠😀

[@Jobotubular]

agreed -- it's a joy to hear this being played by someone who can really play. Makes me want to dig mine out and give it more time.

[@visualmars]

This guy seems just insanely happy about what he does.

[@Roboprogs]

These always make me smile when I watch them.

[@venomslair137]

2MSBHVE He just enjoys playing those synths!!!

[@goognamgoognw6637]

He is respectful to the companies he used to work for.

[@ERICF66]

It's like he's saying......."So I get to play all of these synths that I love and you guys are going to pay me too???" 😅😀🤓😍🎹🎹💵💵

[@F0nkyNinja]

because he 0:30 uses it on the bus

[@ミスウイルス-u5n]

生まれた頃からFM音源の音を聞いて育った私としてはエレピとベースの音色はたまらないですよ♪

[@toraokasoja]

DX7で奏でられるエレピのキラキラした音色が心地良いです（≧∇≦）自分もヤマハさんの電子楽器テノリオンで作曲しKZbinに投稿しています。やはりヤマハさんの楽器は最高ですね（≧∇≦）

[@outrunsega]

エレピの音だけでこのシンセの価値がある。

[@motif909]

ベースも評価してあげてください！

[@DIGITALSCREAMS]

I love big analog polysynths of the 70's and 80's...but I have to say...the DX7 definitely had its place in 80's music. Some of my favourite synth sounds came from this board. Excellant demo.

[@hanaogra]

FM音源のわざとらしいくらいのキメ細やかさ、音抜けアタックの気持ちよさに、IIDならではの独特な厚みが出せるようになってるね。でもスッキリしてる音だ。 10:50こういう遊び心いいな

[@dansinda]

10:50 のヤマハモーターサイクルですが、バイク好きにはたまらないGPレースマシンのYZRの2ストエンジンの音ですね。日本のモータースポーツの黄金期を感じさせます。

[@m.a.freund3332]

after almost religiously watching many of this channel's videos, I think I finally understand this guy's appeal: he's a total dork, but he makes it look cool. Katsunori's a completely insane musician, but he's too talented & his reflexes too complex for blockbuster pop music. He plays every keyboard like anyone who's ever played a keyboard wishes to god they sounded like: effortlessly flawless dexterity, mastery of any genre at command, understanding of the ebb & flow of every kind of music. You'll never hear this in a top 10 pop song. But all us real music geeks secretly loathe pop for dumbing down the possibilities of music to the masses. So the appeal of Katsunori & the music track KZbin channel? They gleefully don't give a fuck, and they have so much fun not giving a fuck, they make us feel like we reside in a dimension that makes any sense to us geek musicians. I hope you keep making these videos for the duration of human existence. Long live Katsunori!

[@robbyandrews223]

It's awesome to hear him seamlessly switch genres of music and play the feeling of each keyboard. He's truly an aficionado.

[@F0nkyNinja]

The Japenese music scene is pretty varied, a lot of the population is also older adults and elderly, who can respect lots of music. He's also done well doing commercial work and other jingles, as well as being a synth programmer/preset maker and demonstrator for Yamaha in the 80's and 90's, 00's. Really what he should be doing is composing more, and I hope he does it for movies/video games.

[@rameynoodles152]

Sadly, pop music is in the state it's in on purpose. Most people just don't really care for complex music and lyrics. They like simple music because they haven't listened to enough different things to "learn" the simple music and desire more musical "knowledge". It's like they are still in musical 2nd/3rd grade, and they just don't get the more complex stuff. Every time I listen to something more complex than pop music, my wife is like "Why do you listen to that wierd music?" Many pop artists and studio musicians are just as good as this guy, but the market doesn't demand complex music, so they don't make much of it.

[@tydeentetuota5514]

中古見つけて買いましたが、音色カートリッジ有りませんでした。 ジュピター80、αジュノー2と共に大切に使っていこうと思いますが、メモリーのデータがとばない事を願っています。 DX5も見つけたら懲りずに買いたいと思っていたりします。 しかし２００万円くらいしていたDX1はなかなか見ないですね。

[@superpop7jp838]

この機種は、ちょっと年代後で、楽器屋さんに頼み込んで、探してもらい購入しました。ソフト音源になった今も、あまりにも大きいので、ＣＸで代用し１台抑えております。ファット感が違うんですよね。いまの時代だと音のレートが低いですが、他のハード楽器同様、取り込んでしまえば映えますので、好きです。＾＾

[@tkfreak88]

3:48 氏家先生の極上クラビ

[@Alex69398]

09:28 "ROCKY 4"

[@TAKA5000]

ここで触発されて実機買っちゃいました。^ ^;

[@iseeolly9959]

I have watched loads of videos of this chap......it's difficult to know if the synth is good or not because he could play the comb-and-paper and it would stir my soul....what a player!

[@theshyguy1580]

There are times he plays like Minoru Mukaiya from Casiopea.

[@iseeolly9959]

@@theshyguy1580 Hmmmmmmm my MoDX is a a keeper

[@gomachanLovely]

当時高くて買えなかったけど　いまビンテージ化して　令和になっても買えねーだろうがあー　(ーー゛)

[@powerdx7383]

Great demo video for DX7II! By the way, even with the DX7 Mk I, it can produce amazingly warm and rich Oberheim-like synth string and brass sounds (e.g., Van Halen 1984 & Jump). They are all truly amazing ‘pure’ synthesizer (not hybrid synths or romplers). Long live DX7!

[@powerdx7383]

Even without a unison mode or vice stacking, the DX7 MK1 can surprise you with amazing analog-like sound with it's natural flanging effect!!!!!!!!!!! It doesn't have two sawtooth wave oscillators, but the DX7 can still manage to create this powerful, fat and rich flanging synth brass sound. If you are interested, please check my KZbin channel. You will learn the true capability and versatility of the DX7 in action!! Cheers, Power DX7.

[@deadwhenifoundher]

the BEST synthesizer videos on KZbin, or anywhere on the internet for that matter. Thank you!

[@pinkdispatcher]

I have my second DX7 II-D after my first one broke. Besides its powerful (though still hard to program) synthesis engine it has a very good keyboard, too which I use as a master keyboard.

[@KeyboardKrazy49]

I have both the original DX7 and the DX7-IID and I think both are such awesome synths!

[@AlobarMusic]

We also have both in our studio.. both are awesome and somehow unique

[@CRITTERBUSTERS]

Would you recommend the DX7 II over the first DX7 because I'm thinking of getting one sometime soon

[@ZaneWuffy]

i've the volca FM from korg, it sounds as nice as this i think

[@Lalaland.001]

Zane Wuffy it doesn't come close to the sonic sound quality of a DX 7 I have one of these volca fm's in my studio. I also own the DX7 and the 7IID. The volca does a good job at emulating the fm sound of a DX but somehow sounds flat in a way, kinda hard to describe but it is not as rich/warm as a DX, IMHO. I have compared them side by side and there is a noticeable difference. I think the chipset Korg uses to emulate or reproduce the FM sound icomes close but is not the same as the hardware chipset used in a DX and that makes the difference.

[@al.cavalu]

@@Lalaland.001 You realize that all chipsets are hardware which runs software that implements the various algorithms, right? You can't run software without having hardware to run it on, and the same software algorithm will sound the same on any hardware you run it. The difference you are seeing might be from the DAC, but definitely not from the chipset that runs the software algorithms.

[@dwightddddd]

Bring the Funk dude! Someone who can actually play his synths. Thank you

[@ajyotta]

電車が発車しそうなメロディーですね。

[@hughug909]

実際にJR東日本で使用されている発着音SHシリーズはDX7で作られた物ですよ！！

[@kurokuragawa]

His demonstration often tells us how he loves synthesizers and music, as well as he loves us!

[@YotamPiano]

My favorite synth 4 ever!! when people come over to my place and I show them my synths even the musicians amongst them don't ever guess the DX-7 is such an old instrument. Yes, I do have the MK2FD in mint condition but the point being that it has such a contemporary look it looks modern even today, and sounds extremely refreshing in gigs in contrast to all those "sampler" keyboards.

[@rickygarcia7400]

Yotam Cohen yep I have the DX7iifd and a roland d50 will never part with thim two of the best synths(:🎹

[@Coowallsky]

My Montage “sampler” covers the bases well and the FM section sounds better than the DX7IID.

[@oupahens9219]

@@Coowallsky That's a bold statement.

[@Coowallsky]

@@oupahens9219 Backed up as a former DX7/DX7II/SY77 and current Motif XF/Montage owner.

[@rumplebunny]

Wayyyy back in 1989 I took some music classes in college, one of them being focused on electronic music and composition. One of the synths in the lab was a DX7IIFD (same as the IID but with a floppy drive for extra patch storage) and I kinda fell in love with it after using it on a few tunes. Kinda amazing to think it was still a relatively new synth at that point (the DX7II models being released in 1987 and even the original DX7 wasn't too far back in history). As the years went on I kinda wanted it back in my life, and did end up picking up a IID a few years ago. (I don't really miss the floppy drive since it's pretty trivial in this day and age to just have patches stored on your PC to send over via MIDI). It's one of my treasured instruments.

[@WV591]

Always the best demos on tube. I will not part with my TX802.

[@user-KORG]

Классика!👍🇷🇺

[@waraiwarai1522]

９０年前後のバラードの ヒット曲に本当に よく使われていた。 あとになってわかった。

[@user-KORG]

Спасибо,сансей! Всегда на позитиве,....добрый человек! 😄🇷🇺🤝🇯🇵

[@NEOgoglles.1]

これにシーケンサーとリズムマシンが 搭載されていたら世界の音楽シーンは 今よりも更に進歩していたかもね

[@mpmpmppp]

SY77とSY99にはシーケンサー付いてましたけどね DX7の頃は機械の能力的にキツかったんじゃ無いですかねぇ？ とは言ってもSY77はDX7IIの1-２年後に出ましたけどね

[@dansinda]

@@mpmpmppp 横から失礼します。その後はワークステーション（シーケンサー入り）の覇権争いでコルグM1などが台頭し新たな時代を迎えましたね。

[@AnalogNoiseLab]

You are a genius

[@irishmusico]

Thank you for this demo. The DX7 was an amazing keyboard in its time

[@jugglerfox]

You're my favorite musician of all time

[@JackTheDeergal]

I'm kinda poor, so I got the Dx-21, which is still a great synth!

[@MrVacicak]

I got original DX7 just for 70$ :D Just memmory battery was dead so i had ot change it and reload the original patches...

[@TotemSP2]

6:19 Oh man, it reminds me of Darius and Hisayoshi Ogura.

[@TotemSP2]

+esspytood ALSO 10:38 THAT IS STRAIGHT UP A SOUND EFFECT FROM THE JOURNEYMAN PROJECT. MY HEART AND YOUNG MIND

[@erdavis7]

The Sega Genesis had a built-in FM-synth! That's what you hear in the games :-)

[@AndyBuckson]

wow, these are all the sounds for decades of Film, music & Tv. A masterpiece. perfect. even today👌😎✌️. beautifully played🙏❤️

[@erebousde]

Yamaha DeeIckxSevenzu!

[@manuelink64]

you made my day HAHAAHAHA!!

[@slammy102]

I miss the DX7IID I once owned... sold it not too long ago, and bought a new TV.. go figure!? it used to sit so nice in the mix with my other keyboards! built like a frikken tank too :D

[@igorcarvalhopadilhaandrade5886]

🤠✌🏻CLASSIC!!!!!!!!!!🤠✌🏻

[@平田浩一-u5r]

ぶっ壊れるまで使います。

[@thiagomanobatera]

Dx7 Steve Porcaro !!!

[@RobertOrgRobert]

Does it have an electric piano sound !!

[@onsesejoo2605]

DX 7, Emulator II, Ensoniq Mirage and you have the culprits of the 80's sounds !

[@pb879]

You can't emulate the real deal.

[@ottoolsen9676]

Yamaha at its prime!! i just love the airy sound of the 80's music, and the dx7 was hevely used at that time,, well played by this man :-)

[@neoasura]

One of the few electronic instruments that can actually make me feel sad with its sound.

[@AlexMarques1980]

Hi, Your patches are amazing. Is there anywhere we can download or buy them? I have a DX7iiFD

[@fullconsciousness1448]

GREAT REVIEWS, THANK YOU!

[@SpyrosVJ]

Respect, from Athens Greece!

[@roboticrealm]

As I mentioned before I figured out he uses a TC Electronic M300 for the reverb and chorus. I bought a TC Electronic M350 which has the exact same sound and it does wonders for the DX7 IID. So I recommend you buy that.

[@preis205]

His advantage is the huge patch/sound library ... not every DX7 sounds like this one... I also have one.

[@Coowallsky]

+preis205 They are all over the net.

[@OniBurei]

3:30 YEARS later I always come back to this video for this little section he does, LOVE IT

[@samsamba08]

@ZaZaZoo22 - It's the famous FM electric piano patch that was extremely popular (to the point of oversaturation) in the 80's. And the most famous (and arguably the "best") one came from the DX7. So yeah, it's very probable. It's funny how this synth is now a collector's item and something to actually -crave- for, back then they were on every corner and people couldn't wait to get rid of them by the end of the decade. ;) A real DX does sound much warmer than emulations (like the FM8).

[@ArturJanz]

Such a great video! Your enthusiasm and this amazing keyboard made my morning. What are your thoughts about this synth as my first one?

[@thejdmguru621]

Love the DX series

[@sika6886]

この頃からYAMAHAのシンセは完成していたとは。今は何でこれ以上進化させたら良いか悩ましいですね。

[@nekonomikatadesu235]

この「Full Tines」は東京ミュウミュウの・あこがれの青山くん・には同じだなー

[@trpla226]

いい音するよねぇDX7

[@rg2027x]

ビューティーイントロラブDX7

[@davidaloysparrow219]

expected to hear some casiopea

[@GospelAviva]

Show

[@jasondonovan4002]

Yamaha reface DX is only 4-operators synth. The FM synth was rebooted many times, SY77, Fs1r, DX200 and for the Motif series PLG150-DX

[@nicde1982]

excuse me what is the product with the stereo behind the dx7?

[@ksato2667]

コンテンポラリーといえばDXエレピ！の時代が、一番音楽聴いた。

[@ChompoMusicPedroPablo]

The one who can say to me if the patch of the yamaha dx7 the IInd D are compatible with Yamaha TX802? I have just acquired a Yamaha TX802 and need the electrical pianoes that go out in this video of youtube, in addition they use the same model of cartridge. someone has sysex of an electrical piano like that? As that of the video?

[@MrMetalsi]

is your name yamaha or what? this guy plays that keyboard like its nothing haha. this guy is legend pff I wish I can play keyboard. All i do is listen to music:(

[@ethanoreilly2002]

The enthusiasm is great from this guy! Although I haven't seen this particular model of DX 7 before

[@dikochi690311]

ＦＭ音源の音は普遍的に良い音なのですたれません。良い買い物をされましたね。ＰＣＭでなく、内部で波形生成されているシンセの音は、直感的に「良い音」がしますよね。

[@hughug909]

ＤＸ７の音はＦＭ音源好きにはたまりません。

[@ArtyPartyMusic]

Would you tell what sound library or bank do you use? Thank you!

[@fabiogalindo7372]

O DX7 II caracteriza por seu DUAL voice. Pois ele no SINGLE se parece com qualquer DX7. A diferença que faz é o modo DUAL no DX7 II

[@preis205]

... the TC Electronic also does wonders.

[@monsterjazzlicks]

Yet another excellent demo by Ujiie! Please make a TUTORIAL of FM PROGRAMING one day soon mate!?

[@nestorpascual1739]

is this better than the ensoniq sq2?

[@christianduval8374]

nestor pascual None is better than the other. DX7 excels at FM sounds and SQ2 at PCM sounds.

[@ChompoMusicPedroPablo]

Is it possible to load the first piano EP that goes out here in a yamaha TX802? Is it compatible? Is it possible to send for sysex?

[@afonsoserro4437]

thank you for english captions

[@lupro1]

I still have it ... since 1986/87 when yamaha started to sell it, my father bought to me, at the same time he bought me Rolad SuperJX (used from Duran Duran in Notorious) ... how much money spent my father form me at the time .... hahahahaha

[@simus35]

dam you got dam good father, 2 choice.maybe you get spoil or you are very very good at the school. :) ;)

[@sunsunminmin3847]

このチャンネルにハマってまっしまった。もう1時間くらい見てる。

[@ytpremium7649]

Had the DX7IIFD and only liked it for how easy it is to program over every other model due to its large LCD screen But I didn't like it for splits or layering. It cuts the polyphony down to 8 voices and the layer just doesn't sound as big as when I midi up my two Mk1 DX7s and run each output separately through my mixer Also, two Mk1 DX7s each maintain their 16 voice polyphony and sound like HEAVEN to my ears I currently have two mint condition Mk1 DX7'S, one TX7 and a DX7S which is where I learned to program on I am a DX7 lover for life!

[@gorman2001]

Just bough my DX7IID in perfect condition for 400$. I can't believe how good that deal is.

[@12opsynths]

I love your synth videos. The Dx7ii was my first synth and this takes me back to the first week I had it and just played it for hours. People trash the factory presets but I thought they were a very creative upgrade from the mark I. You do a great job showcasing it. I've started a patch KZbin page for the mark II patches if you're interested in hearing some. Please keep up the great work!

[@5kMagic]

Are these the factory presets that he’s playing here? Very keen to get my hands on these sounds.

[@OIXEL]

Good, dx7 fantastic sounds ;-)

[@cgereu]

It's worth getting DX7IIFD or DX7IID if you want that awesome 80's FM, nothing else will sound like that. And they are still cheap, so grab one while you can. I just got one and also a TX802. Stacking them together is so awesome!!!

[@jasondonovan4002]

regretted selling a TX802, will be buying a DX7IIFD this weekend

[@cgereu]

+Jason Donovan Awesome!! It is so worth getting. Despite the fact I have a pretty large Eurorack Modular setup, SH101 and Prophet 6, I really like just switching it all off and mess with DX7IIFD and TX802 (Layer both of them with Prophet 6). I guess it's the 80's nostalgia. But DX7IIFD sounds really awesome and it actually is not hard to program at all. Just send sounds from it or a MAC/PC to TX802 since that one has less friendly interface. Mine came with the original ROM cartridge and two RAM4 cartridges, and I noticed that RAM4's formatted for DX7II won't work with TX802, they'd have to be reformatted.

[@powerdx7383]

A great thing about the TX802 is that you can have 8 separate outputs for individual audio processing. With 8 multi-timberal capability, it's a great unit. I do all programming via DX7 MK1, then I need to find a better way to transfer all of my awesome DX7 patches to my TX802...

[@soupforare]

Wonderfully played, wonderfully recorded. Your synth demos are A-1! Would love to hear an ESQ-1 demo...

[@hemfri07]

Oooooochikawasitagi...uUchibarekara...oktanigerechito...ekochuatikagemicu..Kurosawaeee..ogurawacidumikegi...(Practicly, i just wrote rambling random jiberish),but need to Read it with true ANGER,-Better if U Yell,don't ask me why - just because. 🤔😅😂 The Japanese language is such that you have to pronounce and accent EVERYTHING with anger, that's their (Japanese) language. When a Japanese man spoke to me, in Japanese, I didn't know if he was angry with me, or if he was just greeting me, everything sounds angry😆 I got the impression that Japanese people are always, but ALWAYS very ANGRY for some reason, I love you and I hate you are pronounced in Japanese with the IDENTICAL accent - that's just how their (Japanese) language is🤣🤣🤣 PLEASE,Do NOT be affended,i am NOT rasist in ANY way,and i LUV ALL people on Our blue planet,😊♥,it's just the language,that i am commenting on-with NO any mean intentions♥

[@maurize83]

Does any body know what patches are used by mister Katsunori, are these from a card, internal presets, or is it a special collection that only he has compiled himself?

[@cvader7]

Your playing is excellent always! Anata wa Suggoi ne... 9 :25!

[@Roboprogs]

Reverb, eh? Yeah, even my crummy little DX100 went from dull to pretty awesome with a reverb added on the back. Of course, that was like 25 years ago - single and still tinkering on it at the time.

[@roboticrealm]

To answer my own question I found out through a comment on Ujiie's demo of the Waldorf Rocket, that it is the (now discontinued) TC Electronic M300 "dual engine processor". If you look closely on a picture of the M300 and the video here I'm now certain he's using a chorus together with a reverb called TC Classic Hall. The M350 which is the improved predecessor is available. I'm getting one of those.

[@GavinMorris1]

I know hardly any Japanese but these are my favourite synth reviews.

[@dvamateur]

Yamaha DX7 and DX7II are classic instruments, just like Fender Stratocaster is a classic. The only difference is, Fender Stratocaster is still being produced, the DX7 isn't. Which is strange. Hammond organ is being produced, Minimoog Model D is around. The same should be withe DX7 and D-50. Thanks goodness we have eBay. The only place to get real keyboard instruments, still. My favorite ones are the DX7II, D-50, K5, and VZ-1. Various synthesis methods. Unique instruments. Sure, SY77 is great, too, but nothing has its focus on the purity of FM as the DX7. An unadulterated FM synthesizer. D-50 is slightly adulterated with samples, but one can still bypass the samples and use the D-50 as a well featured subtractive synthesizer with four oscillators, variable pulse width, ring modulator, resonant low pass filter, flexible envelopes, 3 LFO's... Let me stop before I start salivating again. And of course Kawai K5 is a paramount representative of additive synthesis (sine waves with 126 harmonics, plus envelope control over all of them!!!), and Casio VZ-1 is phase modulation. Interestingly enough though, DX7 implementation of FM is through phase modulation. And VZ-1's iPD has true frequency modulation, and ring modulator as well. So this intermix of implementations, synthesis concepts, and marketing names can be daunting indeed. Anyway, these are my favorite synthesizers. I also think that Hammond-Suzuki organ is a fantastic additive synthesizer with 9 sine waves and some subtle envelope control through percussion only.

[@trpla226]

音色: YAMAHA MOTORCYCLE だってｗ　面白い！

[@roboticrealm]

It's the rackmount effect. You can only get that kind of chorus on the DX7 IID by using the Poly Unison mode but then you loose a lot of voices so the sound becomes almost unplayable, if you don't want an almost monofonic sound that is. I'm now buying that effect unit....or the predecessor to be exact.

[@thebassaventures6827]

Are factory parches?

[@stcezaire06]

What is that patch FM piano at first on the video ? ;is it an internal factory patch ? Progr P1 26 on my DX7 IID is'nt the same ?? Please help ! I want to have that patch .

[@joseantoniovazzesinho1114]

Melhor som que eu já vi de teclado de todos os tempos dx7

[@trpla226]

最高にファンキーだぜ...

[@soheilmonfared3639]

if you are not professional in japan...it kind of breaking the law ! respect that man ! ;)

[@manuelalejandroorqueravald6511]

Excelentes sonidos! Excelente diseño! Un teclado sencillo pero eficiente. Todo un acierto de Yamaha!

[@yamitanomura]

私も持っています :D

[@jaidamodar9952]

Pls reintroduced DX7 we are interested