Perhaps we first had to get used to the sound or associate fond memories with it. Because even though synths have evolved, many of us still prefer the sounds of the earlier models, especially from the 80s.
It is an amazing synthesizer. I bought mine on eBay about a month ago. It is an AMAZING synthesizer. So many synths take after this legend and the DX7 is where it all began. The Montage is a beautiful synth too and the fact that it has an amazing FM engine based on ( a bit more advanced) on the DX7 says something about how iconic and legendary the DX7 really is. I have many keyboards but the DX7 is my favorite. I have a DX7s as well and I really prefer the sound of the original!
The piano sound he's getting here reminds me of the sound he recorded on the 1984 LP "Village Life" with Foday Musa Suso, although on that recording, he was playing a rare Yamaha DX1.
Herbie Hancock, one of the most coolest and kind guy in the musical world ! I remember when this show was on french TV and it called "Tintammare" wich means "Musical Mess" or "Hurly-Burly" ! Thanks for the share !
I love my dx7 and I love Herbie!!!! Even though the keyboard is about 15 years older than I am it has stood the test of time and is still very affordable 😎
Yes, because Hammond organ's tone wheels do nothing else but produce sine waves, and so do the DX7's operators. Algorithm 32 is simply a 6 sine wave mix. Sure, Hammond has 9 sine waves controlled with drawbars, and DX7 has only 6. But the DX7 has many more level and frequency ratio combinations than the Hammond, and millions of envelope combinations, so think of the DX7 algorithm 32 as a super Hammond organ with envelopes, transposable and tunable tone wheels, plus you can modulate the sine waves with each other in the other algorithms. I mean, sky is the limit. DX7 has practically an infinite sonic possibility.
I have that exact DX7 in my basement collecting dust. It quit on my several years back and I just can’t bring myself to let it go. Nice post, thanks for sharing. mvh
"Os sintetizadores estão em desenvolvimento" "O piano existe a 200 anos. Os sintetizadores surgiram nos últimos 10 ou 20 anos". "Com sons novos a minha música também encontra novos caminhos". Herbie Hancock
yeah and like I get that he's got to translate what mr hancock is saying, but he just like straight up interrupts him. whole thing just comes out as rude
Tintamare was a show in France and back then, in Eastern Canada, we couldn't watch it, but, for that show to pull strings and have Hancock show up, speaks volumes to the cultural importance of the show.
The model type of the DX7 that Herbie Hancock is using is one of the earlier variants of what many would call the "Mark I" model. You can tell this because the back banel doesn't have the synthesizer's full name; it just says "DX7" where most today say "Yamaha DX7." But then again, this video was shot sometime in early-mid 1983, so the DX7 was still undergoing many development processes.
Un moment collector de musique : Mr Herbie Hancock dans une émission sur une chaine régionale française ! Tintammare était un petit show de musique "alternative" comme il en existaient beaucoup dans les années 80 sur la TV fr... ...Une époque où la TV était synonyme de savoir et d'intelligence, et où les artistes venaient pas spécialement pour vendre quelque chose, mais juste pour le plaisir (et quelques billets, je ne suis pas naïf) Mais tout de même, cette époque me manque !
Actually I went to see a concert at Berklee a couple years ago and one of the sets, featuring faculty, had a DX7, a funny thing was that the word "fusion" was never mentioned lol! great concert though and DX7s are DX7s and as DX7s they belong in certain kinds of music
Only the CZ series comes close to making most of the DX7 sounds and those are more that 10 years old. A ten year Casio isn’t making much to be proud of if were were objective and honest.
Cómo me gustaría tocar el Yamaha DX7! Todo un acierto de ingeniería! Este teclado estuvo en manos de tecladistas y bandas más exitosas de los años '80.
He mentioned hiring and working with such people in his autobiography. He goes into detail. It's a good read. He comes across as a very gracious and kind person. Very different than the miles Davis autobiography.
2:30 He said "actually this has a pretty good piano sound right here". I'm watching this video in 2021, and I'm like nah bro. Hahaha. But I wouldn't mind owning one, though. 😎
English version will follow... . On dirait que le l'entrée du signal pour le DX7 a été mal ajustée et à fort volume ça sature affreusement. . Looks like gain was not well adjusted and it clips horribly on the DX7. Edit: apparemment ce serait du au VHS... Due to VHS as told on another comment...😢
