Yamaha DX7 Song List
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Table of Songs featuring Yamaha DX7
Artist | Song | Year | Notes | Reference | Media URL |
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Berlin | Take My Breath Away | "Moroder's keyboard player Arthur Barrow did just that for "Take My Breath Away", employing the 16 Bass 2 preset, which was designed to emulate the sound of a fretless bass guitar. You can hear this same bass patch at work in Commodores’ 1985 single “Nightshift”. | Google Arts | YouTube | |
Deep Purple | The House Of Blue Light (album) | 1987 | "Synthesizer [Yamaha Qx1, Emulator 2] – Roger Glover. Keyboards [Hammond B3, Minimoog, Yamaha Dx1, Cp70 (midi), Dx7, Emulator 2] – Jon Lord | Discogs | YouTube" |
Gary Numan | Strange Charm album | 1986 | SOS 1986 | YouTube | |
Ultravox | Heart of the Country | 1984 | a fascinating bridge passage that saw Midge Ure playing DX7 koto sounds from the Roland G707 guitar (thanks to MIDI) over two sequenced OSCars” | Discogs | YouTube |
Ultravox | Revelation (album) | 1993 | "“Billy ... believes that now is the best time to get the most out of them some FM synthesis from a DX or TX rack, and then maybe a bit of Prophet. The aim is to make a 'stack', or a sculpted piece of sound.” | Music Technology 1993 | YouTube |
Gary Numan | New Thing From London Town | 1986 | A song written with Bill Sharpe | SOS 1986 | YouTube |
Herbie Hancock | Perfect Machine | 1988 | Synthesizer [Yamaha DX1, DX7, DX7IIFD, Kurzweil K-250, Fairlight Series II And Series III, Roland Super Jupiter, Rhodes Chroma, Oberheim Matrix 12, Yamaha TX 8/16], Sampler [Akai 900-S], Vocoder, Producer – Herbie Hancock | Reference | YouTube |