![]() I talked the shop owner into letting me download these to a disk and purchase them, even though he seemed to not really know what was different about them vs. I also loved all the percussive sounds like Marimba, Vibes, Xylophone and some other similar tones.I traveled to the UK in the summer of '88 and visited a music shop that had a DX7IIFD loaded with a bunch of 3rd party sounds I did not have in mine back home. My '80s rig at that time was JX-8P, Juno-106, DX7IIFD, and ultimately added an M1R after they were released.I did like the DX-7 Rhodes sound back then before it had become so overused. DX7, M1, and D50 probably created the first generation of preset jockies. I think the Akai/Roland/Korg samplers were targeting Emulator more than DX7.OTOH, I think the M1 and D50 may indeed have been developed with an eye toward what Yamaha had accomplished with the DX7, they took things in new directions, were more technologically unlike anything that had come before, and like DX7, were all-in-one boards with all sounds on board, and more appealing to non-techies. The move from 8-bit to 12-bit was probably spurred by the availability of more affordable processors/memory that could do it, it was a natural evolution of what was already being done, not something entirely different like what Yamaha was doing. If anything drove the sampler industry to find ways to be more competitive, it was probably that rather than DX7. ![]() The first affordable 8-bit sampler came out shortly after the DX7 (Mirage, from a new company). I’m convinced it’s because of the DX-7 that other digital classics came out.I think that's a lot of conjecture, which I don't fully buy. ![]()
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