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plus, I've heard the keyboard is the bees knees.
I'd like to have a literal hands on approach with fm synthesis too, pete. I normally don't get that hardware/gear lust/want some physical knobs sentiment, but with fm I think it'd be really cool. but I don't have the money for it

imo, try a blofeld, can do all the digital stuff dead easy, and a ton more, also reasonably handson. £200 or so.

Junos are great, full fat rave synths, cant do digital type stuff tho.

DX7s i think are overvalued for what they can do today, like mentioned the little tx things are far better value. DX7s are 'classics' because of the impact they had at the time.

Bournio wrote:

pete bubonic wrote: A DX7 has no knobs... Just a slider and some membrane buttons.

Yeah that's the main disadvantage, no knobs and really small screen, but I once saw one rare dedicated controller for DX7, would be amazing to have that. I own the synth, and personally I like it, you can get some weird shit modulating the operators in real time and of course the legendary e-pianos, tubular bells sound and some tight low-bass tones... But as with FM synthesis goes you can screw up the sound in seconds And the keys are superb, much better quality as on nowdays midi controllers and most of the synths... It's a nice synth to have...