Perhaps we first had to get used to the sound or associate fond memories with it. Because even though synths have evolved, many of us still prefer the sounds of the earlier models, especially from the 80s.
It is an amazing synthesizer. I bought mine on eBay about a month ago. It is an AMAZING synthesizer. So many synths take after this legend and the DX7 is where it all began. The Montage is a beautiful synth too and the fact that it has an amazing FM engine based on ( a bit more advanced) on the DX7 says something about how iconic and legendary the DX7 really is. I have many keyboards but the DX7 is my favorite. I have a DX7s as well and I really prefer the sound of the original!
The piano sound he's getting here reminds me of the sound he recorded on the 1984 LP "Village Life" with Foday Musa Suso, although on that recording, he was playing a rare Yamaha DX1.
Yes, because Hammond organ's tone wheels do nothing else but produce sine waves, and so do the DX7's operators. Algorithm 32 is simply a 6 sine wave mix. Sure, Hammond has 9 sine waves controlled with drawbars, and DX7 has only 6. But the DX7 has many more level and frequency ratio combinations than the Hammond, and millions of envelope combinations, so think of the DX7 algorithm 32 as a super Hammond organ with envelopes, transposable and tunable tone wheels, plus you can modulate the sine waves with each other in the other algorithms. I mean, sky is the limit. DX7 has practically an infinite sonic possibility.
"Os sintetizadores estão em desenvolvimento" "O piano existe a 200 anos. Os sintetizadores surgiram nos últimos 10 ou 20 anos". "Com sons novos a minha música também encontra novos caminhos". Herbie Hancock
I love my dx7 and I love Herbie!!!! Even though the keyboard is about 15 years older than I am it has stood the test of time and is still very affordable 😎
Herbie Hancock, one of the most coolest and kind guy in the musical world ! I remember when this show was on french TV and it called "Tintammare" wich means "Musical Mess" or "Hurly-Burly" ! Thanks for the share !
I have that exact DX7 in my basement collecting dust. It quit on my several years back and I just can’t bring myself to let it go. Nice post, thanks for sharing. mvh
The model type of the DX7 that Herbie Hancock is using is one of the earlier variants of what many would call the "Mark I" model. You can tell this because the back banel doesn't have the synthesizer's full name; it just says "DX7" where most today say "Yamaha DX7." But then again, this video was shot sometime in early-mid 1983, so the DX7 was still undergoing many development processes.
Actually I went to see a concert at Berklee a couple years ago and one of the sets, featuring faculty, had a DX7, a funny thing was that the word "fusion" was never mentioned lol! great concert though and DX7s are DX7s and as DX7s they belong in certain kinds of music
Tintamare was a show in France and back then, in Eastern Canada, we couldn't watch it, but, for that show to pull strings and have Hancock show up, speaks volumes to the cultural importance of the show.
Un moment collector de musique : Mr Herbie Hancock dans une émission sur une chaine régionale française ! Tintammare était un petit show de musique "alternative" comme il en existaient beaucoup dans les années 80 sur la TV fr... ...Une époque où la TV était synonyme de savoir et d'intelligence, et où les artistes venaient pas spécialement pour vendre quelque chose, mais juste pour le plaisir (et quelques billets, je ne suis pas naïf) Mais tout de même, cette époque me manque !
yeah and like I get that he's got to translate what mr hancock is saying, but he just like straight up interrupts him. whole thing just comes out as rude
Only the CZ series comes close to making most of the DX7 sounds and those are more that 10 years old. A ten year Casio isn’t making much to be proud of if were were objective and honest.
Cómo me gustaría tocar el Yamaha DX7! Todo un acierto de ingeniería! Este teclado estuvo en manos de tecladistas y bandas más exitosas de los años '80.
He mentioned hiring and working with such people in his autobiography. He goes into detail. It's a good read. He comes across as a very gracious and kind person. Very different than the miles Davis autobiography.
2:30 He said "actually this has a pretty good piano sound right here". I'm watching this video in 2021, and I'm like nah bro. Hahaha. But I wouldn't mind owning one, though. 😎
No, I'm not going to admit that Chick Corea and George Duke sounded cheesy. Of all the things that sound cheesy, that's who you pick on? These incredible musicians, these paragons of technique? If early fusion jazz sounds cheesy to you, what sounds sophisticated?
Namedrop? Isn't that when you say you know the guy? "So me and Chick were hanging out once and ..." "You and who?" "Oh my buddy, Chick Corea." Isn't that what a namedrop is? Lol.
English version will follow... . On dirait que le l'entrée du signal pour le DX7 a été mal ajustée et à fort volume ça sature affreusement. . Looks like gain was not well adjusted and it clips horribly on the DX7. Edit: apparemment ce serait du au VHS... Due to VHS as told on another comment...😢
+Ryan Candelario The Kurzweil K250 from 1984, had some pretty bitchin' piano sounds on ROM. 1000 times better than the cheesy DX7. Also was a pretty amazing synth and had great performance synth capabilities. Check out VH's "Why Can't This Be Love?" from the "Live Without A Net", concert, and you'll see what I mean. I own two of them and they are my favorite boards to play. Even though they are beasts to keep around size-wise, lol.
healingreef Do u know, 4 a FACT, dat Mr. Hancock had no programming skillz? Furthermore, logic & common-sense alone, mite n4m 1, dat da DX-7, wuz WAY BETTER, @ recreating piano soundz, than analog synthz had been.
What he says at 4:17-5:18 is such a beautiful thing to say about music. It's a beautiful analogy and a beautiful idea.
Yeah, and on top of synths being brand new, the frequency modulation in the one in front he’s playing on was really new and cutting edge.
Perhaps we first had to get used to the sound or associate fond memories with it. Because even though synths have evolved, many of us still prefer the sounds of the earlier models, especially from the 80s.
Love the tape distortion on this synth.
it's not a audio effect dude... this is old video footage transferred from VHS to mp4 format...this footage is nearly 44 years old
LOL
@@brandonbanks32278 thats why he said tape distortion mate....
@@brandonbanks32278 36 yrs at the very oldest. DX7 came out in '83
@@brandonbanks32278 I think he’s meaning precisely that and I second it.
5:53 Super rare footage of Herbie Playing organ.
How can he play during that earthquake?
Magnificat2020
SKILLZ!!!
ROTFL! F*cking good one! Thanks for the laugh :)
Practice. 😉
You should see him in a Tusnami?
Hahahaha.
Tip: his biography is AMAZING. The Audible version is read by himself. One of the best bios I've ever listened to.
Autobiography, T - please kill me.
I looked through it in a store, and it seemed terrific. I really should read it in full.
All best from Over Here.
Thnx 🌹
I’m afraid that if I read his bio I’ll end up feeling like a loser with no musical talent at all.
That riff he starts at 6:42 is really good and very 80s sounding
Great clip ! DX7 remains magic even after all these years !! Even today FM is still deep in Yamaha Synth family such as flagship Montage !
I got that montage I can recreate the 80s sounds on my production
@@holygeneration7 with flash drive
It is an amazing synthesizer. I bought mine on eBay about a month ago. It is an AMAZING synthesizer. So many synths take after this legend and the DX7 is where it all began. The Montage is a beautiful synth too and the fact that it has an amazing FM engine based on ( a bit more advanced) on the DX7 says something about how iconic and legendary the DX7 really is. I have many keyboards but the DX7 is my favorite. I have a DX7s as well and I really prefer the sound of the original!
@@scottcupp8129 does the montage have dx7 presets
Fm can do more sounds like the yamaha fs1r more complex fm
and just like that DX7 prices are up to $800..
bought mine for 300€ lol
I just said fuck it and now I'm rocking dexed with my broke ass 😂
@TacoTacoTacoTaco dude i can't stand the filter on dexed!
@@ruffiankick Well using the filter is kind of cheating because the DX7 didn't have one, I think anyways
@@juanfeduchi1998 me for 500 € include cartridge i'm so happy
In this video, the Yamaha DX7 internal patches “Electric Piano 1” and “Piano 1” and “Electric Organ 1” were heard.
Damn! I wish there was 10 extra minutes of Herbie jamming on his own trying patches.
Thanks for this gem.
The piano sound he's getting here reminds me of the sound he recorded on the 1984 LP "Village Life" with Foday Musa Suso, although on that recording, he was playing a rare Yamaha DX1.
5:53 that organ sound is actually really good. Needs some rotary speaker and it's pretty much in the ballpark.
The D50 does it better!!
bs
It makes sense considering a tonewheel organ and a dx7 both work by generating sine waves, just one is digital and the other isn't
Yes, because Hammond organ's tone wheels do nothing else but produce sine waves, and so do the DX7's operators. Algorithm 32 is simply a 6 sine wave mix. Sure, Hammond has 9 sine waves controlled with drawbars, and DX7 has only 6. But the DX7 has many more level and frequency ratio combinations than the Hammond, and millions of envelope combinations, so think of the DX7 algorithm 32 as a super Hammond organ with envelopes, transposable and tunable tone wheels, plus you can modulate the sine waves with each other in the other algorithms. I mean, sky is the limit. DX7 has practically an infinite sonic possibility.
But that came out in 86, its bound to be better than something from 83.
Mr Herbie Hancock performances & Yamaha DX7 MK1 lovers... Watch this !
Hat off & thanks for sharing this highly valuable, rare, 80's moment...
Keep sharing these artistic jewels ! ;-))
I own a mk1 too, its the only synth that lives in my livingroom.
1:57 that chord is magic
I was gonna say that's is one wobbly-ass keyboard stand, but i see it's the old-ass video
king shaman first thing I thought too.....get that man a proper stand!
~ that videotape was feelin' da funk! ~~
hahahaha
LOL! Thought that myself.
"Os sintetizadores estão em desenvolvimento"
"O piano existe a 200 anos. Os sintetizadores surgiram nos últimos 10 ou 20 anos".
"Com sons novos a minha música também encontra novos caminhos".
Herbie Hancock
Herbie. The legend of synth machines
I love my dx7 and I love Herbie!!!! Even though the keyboard is about 15 years older than I am it has stood the test of time and is still very affordable 😎
Herbie Hancock, one of the most coolest and kind guy in the musical world !
I remember when this show was on french TV and it called "Tintammare" wich means "Musical Mess" or "Hurly-Burly" !
Thanks for the share !
02:33
Best piano I've ever heard coming from the DX7
I never expected to see a DX7 on a channel called ANALOGUE SynthMuseum, LOL!
yes but it's a vintage machine , the website speak about digital samplers too like fairlight , its just about vintage synths.
That was a quick reply!
Yes. That hurts almost as much as hearing a 24 year old girl you like call you Sir.
I was about to say the same. Nowadays an original DX7 is just as vintage as a Prophet 5 :)
grarghov1 nowhere near as warm.
Great find! I love Herbie Hancock, and I love the DX7
I enjoyed Herbie's masterful performance in Valerian and The City of 1000 Planets.
Herbie hancock....is why i made music....on keyboards...
legit
AWSOMUS PRIME prove it
Andrew Coulter ruclips.net/video/xhcv4AwOeh0/видео.html made on roland xp 60
AWSOMUS PRIME sound quality poor you got anything else?
I have that exact DX7 in my basement collecting dust. It quit on my several years back and I just can’t bring myself to let it go. Nice post, thanks for sharing.
mvh
I had the battery replaced in mine by a technician for $40! Don't give up on it yet!!
Was about to say that. Switch battery. Its the problem 9/10 times.
RUDY CASTILLO or will be smoked to stonned)
exact DX7? LOL you and 150,000 other people!
@@photographmannickel $40? From what I understand they just take standard watch batteries, sounds like you got ripped off...
I like his Seiko UC-2000
How mean :D
One of the first things I noticed! The first computer watch!
I was just gonna ask what that watch was! Thanks.
Herbie = Genius, Legend, Innovator... Wish I was 1/10 as talented as him.
A true master.
Herbie is so good, he can play a keyboard that wobbles.
The model type of the DX7 that Herbie Hancock is using is one of the earlier variants of what many would call the "Mark I" model. You can tell this because the back banel doesn't have the synthesizer's full name; it just says "DX7" where most today say "Yamaha DX7." But then again, this video was shot sometime in early-mid 1983, so the DX7 was still undergoing many development processes.
Thank you for this, I just got a DX7 myself, it's so good to see someone like Herbie Hancock playing it and showing it some love. :)
Herbie obviously liked the DX7, it was a breakthrough synth at that time (1983/1984)
He singlehandedly instilled in me my love of keys and electronic music.
Priceless! Thanks for posting! (It's Korg that has Herbie these days of course...)
That CASIO watch is back to cool right now, the synth stays cool all the way until now.
Actually I went to see a concert at Berklee a couple years ago and one of the sets, featuring faculty, had a DX7, a funny thing was that the word "fusion" was never mentioned lol! great concert though and DX7s are DX7s and as DX7s they belong in certain kinds of music
A living legend
Легендарный музыкант и легендарный синт.
Tintamare was a show in France and back then, in Eastern Canada, we couldn't watch it, but, for that show to pull strings and have Hancock show up, speaks volumes to the cultural importance of the show.
Un moment collector de musique : Mr Herbie Hancock dans une émission sur une chaine régionale française !
Tintammare était un petit show de musique "alternative" comme il en existaient beaucoup dans les années 80 sur la TV fr...
...Une époque où la TV était synonyme de savoir et d'intelligence, et où les artistes venaient pas spécialement pour vendre quelque chose, mais juste pour le plaisir (et quelques billets, je ne suis pas naïf)
Mais tout de même, cette époque me manque !
"Does this mean you don't need the piano anymore?"
Lmao
Silly host.
yeah and like I get that he's got to translate what mr hancock is saying, but he just like straight up interrupts him. whole thing just comes out as rude
Especially with the Dx7!!
Herbie Hancock.. a fine individual!
great footage, thank you for sharing this..!
Dx 7 is a classic synth (i Own both MK1 - MK2 FD) but Herbie Hancock is a great player too.
That guy is translating himself and Herbie but it's so confusing lol
it's trippy as fuck and makes the thing almost unbearable to watch, he has such an unpleasant voice too
Oh I thought he was speaking additional sentences that Herbie got because he understands French.lol
Love this! Herbie Hancock and a French lesson too. hypercool!
"No, I still need a piano" lol
Amazing. I have a Casio that’s 10 years old that can make most of those sounds now. It’s 2021. Technology has certainly shrunk exponentially
Unless it is a CZ101 it can't really make these sounds well. Cheap imatation on a chip.
Only the CZ series comes close to making most of the DX7 sounds and those are more that 10 years old. A ten year Casio isn’t making much to be proud of if were were objective and honest.
He did the music for deathwish 1.
Very interesting for every keyboardist or acoustic piano player :)
Cómo me gustaría tocar el Yamaha DX7! Todo un acierto de ingeniería! Este teclado estuvo en manos de tecladistas y bandas más exitosas de los años '80.
"they have some pretty good piano sounds here" hmmmmm
whatever distortion pedal he is using sounds ultra fresh.
It's the vhs tape distortion, this footage is 40 years old !
love'ya MAN!!! HOLD ON DX7!!!!! GREETINGS FROM ARGENTINA
Herbie Hancock sur un DX7, magnifique surprise.
He's wearing the period correct watch too!
Herbie and Dx7
The video is from probably 1983.
I like how the French guy is speaking a bit of French with his English. He's just trying his best lol.
Such vintage video, they didn't even knew about subtitles back in those days.
Man I want that organ patch
Dexed is free DX7 VST isntrument.
Anything sounds good in Herbie's hands but not a fan of the DX7 but I love other more modern Yamahas .
This is a good test actually. If you can't make a DX7 sound good, your keyboard chops need improving, not the instrument.
Andrew Piatek DX7 = 💩
@@SPAZZOID100 fm synthesis is better
@@SPAZZOID100 Acoustic Solutions MK2054 =💩
Ivan Zaytsev (interviewer) before becoming a volleyball player. not bad at all.
Too bad I've sold my dx7, Herbie is the Man!
Priceless
most awkward interview award winner
Glorious and that wristwatch.
such a lovely gentleman
ALL THE talents he STILL had to curl his hair.
I saw another interview where herbie said he basically employed someone to make his patches for him because FM was too time consuming xD
theycallmejpj he always had someone to assist him, even when he started in the 70s
He mentioned hiring and working with such people in his autobiography. He goes into detail. It's a good read. He comes across as a very gracious and kind person. Very different than the miles Davis autobiography.
would whole heartedly agree
Andrew Kosiba the older synths were MUCH easier to program.
Herbie is the greatest
breakin out the casio. man i gotta practice more! herb was the man.
Is this a Kids in the Hall skit? That host is hilarious!
Lovely sweater
He is my Uncle Herbie.. but im not his Nephew 😢😢😢
Instrumentalists Jade : {hug}
Historical synth!
Herbie… genius.
génial merci !!!!
Love it..
zeee zinsciscizorr.
Voilà un pull-over magnifique !
He look likes Eddie Murphy at that time!
Speak french and then slerp! 😂Loving Herbie thought.
He needs a Dx1
still a sick synth
Idk why , but sometimes I go on your website I get a redirect on scam pages when clicking on pictures (c'est la faute de free ? )
Is this vaporwave?
k l y t u s No, don't mistake real jazz and jazz fusion for that pop culture bullshit. But yes this is vaporwave.
2:30 He said "actually this has a pretty good piano sound right here". I'm watching this video in 2021, and I'm like nah bro. Hahaha. But I wouldn't mind owning one, though. 😎
Since he brings it up, who was the first jazz musician to use a synthesizer? Chick Corea?
No, I'm not going to admit that Chick Corea and George Duke sounded cheesy. Of all the things that sound cheesy, that's who you pick on? These incredible musicians, these paragons of technique? If early fusion jazz sounds cheesy to you, what sounds sophisticated?
Sun Ra
chick corea namedrop alert...
suprised no one has name dropped vangelis yet...
Namedrop? Isn't that when you say you know the guy? "So me and Chick were hanging out once and ..." "You and who?" "Oh my buddy, Chick Corea." Isn't that what a namedrop is? Lol.
English version will follow...
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On dirait que le l'entrée du signal pour le DX7 a été mal ajustée et à fort volume ça sature affreusement.
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Looks like gain was not well adjusted and it clips horribly on the DX7.
Edit: apparemment ce serait du au VHS... Due to VHS as told on another comment...😢
I have a DX7. That s about all I have in common with Herbie unfortunately.
I like how we all use filters to make our Instagram videos look like this lmaooo
I want that watch...
Great video. What’s the music at the start with the prophet 5.
He said it’s not bad for a synthesizer. Hahaha. He knows that DX7 doesn’t sound like a real piano. Hahaha. Well, no keyboard did in those days.
The truth is, Herbie sounds better on the DX7 piano patch than most people sound on acoustic pianos. :)
Ryan Candelario synths should sound like SYNTHS.
+Ryan Candelario The Kurzweil K250 from 1984, had some pretty bitchin' piano sounds on ROM. 1000 times better than the cheesy DX7. Also was a pretty amazing synth and had great performance synth capabilities. Check out VH's "Why Can't This Be Love?" from the "Live Without A Net", concert, and you'll see what I mean. I own two of them and they are my favorite boards to play. Even though they are beasts to keep around size-wise, lol.
healingreef
Do u know, 4 a FACT, dat Mr. Hancock had no programming skillz? Furthermore, logic & common-sense alone, mite n4m 1, dat da DX-7, wuz WAY BETTER, @ recreating piano soundz, than analog synthz had been.
@@SPAZZOID100 u sound so dumb
Herbie Hancock = old 80's Asap Rocky with mustache and glasses
Great piece of history. The presenter translation to what both of them are talking is very unpleasant
MAESTRO !
to dopiero przedsmak dx7, bo to instrument dla mistrzów większych niż hangkok czy ja:))
Am i the only one who thinks he looks like Denzel with glasses on?