And sounds that were unacceptable in the 80s sound deliciously edgy to our more adventurous modern ears. We’ve gone back to the hands-on editing of the analog instruments of the age. Since then, though, we’ve all become more cyborg-like in our music machine tastes. To many synthesists of the mid-80s, the Yamaha keyboards were perfect preset machines, clean and digital and predictable, and the analog devices that came before them were relabeled junk. But it’s also worth saying, the DX7 and its ilk from Yamaha have taken on a different meaning to our 2021 selves than the machines’ 1980s users.
But leave it to Plogue to do bit-for-bit digital recreation – with a precise reproduction of the Yamaha 6-operator FM synth range, including the legendary FM7.
