Retrospective of the world-changing Yamaha DX7 synthesizer

DX7

Kevin Boone writes about the Yamaha DX7, which changed everything when it turned up in the mid-1980s: "the 'Electric Piano 1' preset alone appeared in over 60% of album releases of 1986." It was serious professional performance equipment, a "huge, uncompromising lump of ironwork" designed to be thrown into the back of a van. And it brought digital po…