Yamaha DX7

Takuya Nakata
Takuya Nakata is the Director and Executive Officer for Yamaha in Japan. During his NAMM Oral History interview he provided details about the development of Yamaha’s electronic musical products beginning with the D-1 organ in 1959. Mr. Nakata also related the stories of the GS-1 digital keyboard in...
Synthesizers, Music Manufacturing, Keyboards, Japanese Music Industry, Yamaha DX7, Yamaha Corporation of America, Yamaha Corporation of Japan
Max Mathews
Max Mathews was working as an engineer at the famed Bell Laboratory in 1954 when he was asked to determine if the computer Bell was designing could create music. The landmark Music 2 and later Music 4 projects put the two concepts together as early as 1957-–the computer and music had a future and...
MIDI, Electronic Music, Synthesizers, Product Engineers, Keyboards, Deceased, Yamaha DX7, Don Buchla, Computer Music, Bell Labs, Full Interview
Karl Hirano
Karl Hirano was an electronic engineer for Yamaha in Japan during the great MIDI boom of the early 1980s. In fact, Karl was a member of the team that gathered at the 1983 NAMM Show to discuss the MIDI spec and agree on the protocol and how MIDI would be engineered into the vast number of new...
MIDI, Synthesizers, Product Engineers, Keyboards, Japanese Music Industry, Yamaha DX7, Yamaha Corporation of Japan, Deceased
Dr. John Chowning
Dr. John Chowning is known throughout the world for his discovery of FM sound synthesis, which, when used in the context of electronic musical instruments, provided an alternative to the way synthesized music was being created. The technology was first used with great success in the Yamaha DX7,...
Electronic Music, Synthesizers, Composer/Songwriter, Keyboards, Yamaha DX7, Yamaha Corporation of America, Yamaha Corporation of Japan, FM Synthesis, Full Interview

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