"Analogue was king... Until the first commercially successful digital synthesizer appeared on the scene – the Yamaha DX7. It used a technology called Frequency Modulation (FM) and it [initially] appeared to solve all of the problems of analogue synthesizers: it stayed in tune where analogue was notoriously unreliable; it had eight notes of affordable polyphony where most analogues were still monophonic; it was 8 note polyphonic whereas truly polyphonic synths were much more expensive and even more unreliable; it had 32 recallable presets where analogue synths rarely had that capability. But most of all, it had a whole new range of sounds that were [nearly] impossible to make using analogue technology."
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