Yamaha DX7.

Oh you mean… OK. The one on my 2008 unibody MacBook, which I likely put the most hours in on of any of them. Then the one on my ancient and lovely Thinkpad T240 — one of the most pragmatically delightful computers ever — and probably the N33SX I owned in 1992.

The keyboard on the M1 Max MBP is quite nice, too.

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hdb2 14 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

OMG thank you - as a musician, that's the first thing I think of when I see "favorite keyboard."

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pantulis 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

What, did Korg release an M1 Max? How did I miss it?

	▲	dofm 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah. Loads more keys. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045464/

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aa-jv 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

DX7 had a dreadful keybed. Midi CC only up to 100 (instead of 127), wtf?!

Fatar learned a lot of lessons from Yamaha in that regard.

Looking forward to adding an Expressive E Osmose to my rig soon ..

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dofm 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I never actually owned one but I loved playing one.

Just the fact that a synth thing was so (relatively) affordable and accessible and also made music we heard all the time.

I should probably make a Dexed thing. Ultimately I don't even play an instrument with frets, let alone keys, so it would only be for tinkering.

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hdb2 12 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

The DX7 IIFD is a bucket list keyboard for me. I fell in love with it in my youth, and I will eventually buy one in good condition.

The Yamaha FSR1 would be nice, too! :)

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aa-jv 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

>Dexed

Get a Zynthian and dive right in to all the FM synthesis you can possibly imagine, and more. Its pretty freakin' powerful. Plus, you can do all kinds of mad things with it, vis a vis oddball controllers and such.

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dofm 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I'm interested to make a Dexed thing more for the fun/process of it.

At the moment I am mostly playing lap steel but it's early days as an electric player so I am trying to not spend much money :-)

For lap steel which is continuous pitch I feel I'm more likely to settle on a Boss SY synth pedal or something signal-processing-based like it, rather than MIDI. But these days audio-based midi-tracking like MIDI Guitar 2/3 seems to work quite well. I know of at least one player using a Fishman Triple Play on a lap steel but that's an expensive experiment.

	▲	aa-jv an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I fully appreciate the desire to make a Dexed for the fun of it, however .. if you haven't dug into Zynthian yet, it won't be obviously clear that: >Boss SY synth pedal or something signal-processing-based like it .. is exactly what the Zynthian delivers, plus way, way, way more. You can run Dexed on it, and also run multiple signal-processing chains for your lap steel. It is huge bang for the buck! Especially if you do live things, you can have Dexed tracks running in parallel to your FX chain .. Just sayin', take a closer look. For lap steel (and indeed any similar instruments), Zynthian is a godsend. (Get a good mic for it too, of course..) I am positive you will find it extremely rewarding to pipe your lap steel through these: https://zynthian.org/engines#effect .. alongside these: https://zynthian.org/engines#synth (Dexed is but one in a very, very sexy list..)