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Your iPad and iPhone just became a portal to endless DX7 sounds
You may think you know the Yamaha DX7 from those couple of presets that dominated the 80s. But Oliver Greschke’s Elastic OSC for iPhone and iPad is a reminder of just how much potential Yamaha’s breakthrough FM synth can offer. And now Elastic OSC app can easily import those sounds, with a bunch of unique presets to get you started — plus a link to a cool generative tool that works with anything.
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Tom Oberheim turns 89 today; a conversation with Tom
Tom Oberheim may be in retirement, but the instruments and his legacy are just getting started. Artists are rediscovering vintage classics, and instruments like the new TEO-5 are taking off. So to celebrate his 89th birthday, here’s a recent conversation with the man behind that famous synth name.
Peter Kirn - July 7, 2025
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MINIDEXED puts 8 DX7 emulators on a USB stick
It’s a TX816 on a keychain! Someone (“Kevin”?) has put together a Raspberry Pi Zero-based build that lets you carry around eight DX7 emulator instances on a USB stick.
Peter Kirn - November 28, 2023
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Noise Engineering has a new oscillator, Alia – and it’s bringing back old faves
Peter Kirn - October 24, 2023
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Mutable Instruments swan song: end of production leaves huge legacy, one last Plaits update
Peter Kirn - December 15, 2022
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Plogue has made a chip-perfect emulation of the Yamaha FM synth line
Peter Kirn - September 22, 2021
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NI Massive X synth sees first features, interface revealed
Peter Kirn - March 14, 2019
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