Yamaha DX21 - what would be a good price to pay.

Jesper Jørgensen

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Jun 17, 2001, 5:55:22 AM6/17/01

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I´ve been offered a DX21 i mint condition for the price of 50$ - anyone got
any comments on this piece of equipment?

Jesper U. Jørgensen, Denmark

Mr Q. Z. Diablo

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Jun 17, 2001, 7:24:20 AM6/17/01

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In article <3b2c7fcc$0$258$ba62...@nntp01.dk.telia.net>, "Jesper
Jørgensen" <j...@mail1.stofanet.dk> wrote:

> I´ve been offered a DX21 i mint condition for the price of 50$ - anyone
> got
> any comments on this piece of equipment?

Not a bad price. Quite a capable bitimbral synth for its day. I
learned to program FM on 'em. Lots of preset sounds in ROM, too. You
have to transfer them to RAM to use them but all the classics are there.

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DN

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Jun 17, 2001, 12:08:57 PM6/17/01

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I'd definitely buy at $50. 4-op FM, like a TX81Z but not
multi-timbral; I do think it would do splits and layers though. Go
for it! -- DN

Andrew Swihart

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Jun 17, 2001, 4:49:33 PM6/17/01

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I have one also that I will sell you for $50 if the other deal falls
through.

Andrew Swihart
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Bob Weigel

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Jun 17, 2001, 8:44:29 PM6/17/01

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We just got one in at the store. They want $150 but I sure don't need
it at that price. I might pay 50. It's a 4 operator FM..probably..
what, 16 voice? I would guess even 12 voice maybe. -Bob

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Mr Q. Z. Diablo

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Jun 17, 2001, 9:59:49 PM6/17/01

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In article <9gjitd$p...@garcia.efn.org>, b...@efn.org (Bob Weigel) wrote:

> We just got one in at the store. They want $150 but I sure don't need
> it at that price. I might pay 50. It's a 4 operator FM..probably..
> what, 16 voice? I would guess even 12 voice maybe. -Bob

8-voice is my guess. Most of 4-op DX synths were (and the TX81Z). Mind
you, I've generally found 4-op FM synths only really much good at
monophonic lines, anyway (electric piano and organ sounds excepted).

Ctrl - Alt - Del

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Jun 18, 2001, 7:13:07 PM6/18/01

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"Jesper Jørgensen" <j...@mail1.stofanet.dk> wrote in message
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> I´ve been offered a DX21 i mint condition for the price of 50$ - anyone got
> any comments on this piece of equipment?

That was my very first synth back in 1985... I paid 900$ Canadian for a used
one.
Keyboard is not velocity sensitive, but the tone generator will respond to
velocity if
driven via MIDI from a velocity sensitive keyboard. Nice intro to 4 ops FM

Carl

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Jun 19, 2001, 6:58:57 AM6/19/01

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Yep, it's definitely 8 note poly. 4 operators, so not such thick sounds as a
DX7 etc., but not bad - as I remember, there were 128 sounds in ram inside
the machine, which you could load (individually) to a buffer, edit (if you
wanted) and then store where you want.