Yamaha TX816 Song List

Yamaha TX816 (1984)

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Table of Songs featuring Yamaha TX816

Artist	Song	Year	Notes	Reference	Media URL
Europe	The Final Countdown	1986	This iconic synth riff was played by Mic Michaeli using both a Yamaha TX816 and Roland JX-8P.	Private correspondence - OF	YouTube
Harold Faltermeyer	Top Gun theme	1986	Very early on, I found that the only beauty of a DX7 is when you have two DX7’s. Then the TX816 came along, which had eight DX7’s in it. This was a heavenly instrument because you could slightly change parameters on each voice. You could daisy chain them. I had two of those, so the low bell sounds in Top Gun, for example, are 16 DX7’s. That’s actually a stock sound. It’s a tubular bell, just slightly detuned and tweaked. We had this extreme, fat low C. That’s how the Top Gun anthem starts.	Red Bull Music Academy	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	Discogs	YouTube"
Ultravox	Revelation (album)	1993	"Billy used a lot of his old keyboards on the album, and believes that now is the best time to get the most out of 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