Depeche Mode, Duran Duran, New Order ... and Yamaha, with Yamaha blazing a trail by establishing the first digital synthesizer to hit critical mass, the DX7. Roughly 150,000 DX7s were sold ...

You might even call it a 'new synth' if you were feeling particularly ... Prophet-5 and - some reports said at the time - a Yamaha DX1. With Behringer's Pro-16 (Prophet 5-a-like) and Wave (PPG ...

Sure, there had been synthesizers before, but none acheived the sudden popularity of Yamaha’s DX7. “Take on Me?” “Highway to the Dangerzone”? That harmonica solo in “What’s Love ...