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fuhsnn 21 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: They don't make them like that any more: the Yamah...

>It's also for this reason that DX7 only has membrane buttons, and no knobs or sliders. It didn't need them.

I wouldn't romanticize it as anything other than cost-cutting, later flagship models got sliders.

alterom 21 days ago [–]

Sure, but they could get away with this cost cutting, because the synth had enough to offer without them.

A classic analog synth wouldn't sell with such controls.

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