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2 totally different beasts in this post - the flimsy but desireable CS-15 (and cousin) get a rare press ad.. The YAMAHA range were quite popular in ireland, with many early Electronic keyboardists owning massive examples - Jim Lockheart & Trevor Knight both had polyphonic Yamahas - this was probably down to availability more then anything else, since Yamaha have always treated Ireland with respect and always had a decent dealership/service network here.
The DX1 is a unique beast, in that it was the 2nd most expensive non-sequencer computer music device ever produced, it being a refined version of Yamaha's early WMD, and most stupid thing ever made - the GS-1.. It shat all over the current Yamaha 6-op king - the DX7, making it appear cheap with it's awesome multi displays and massive control surface.. It also suffered from early FM synth Idle noise, like the DX7, but with the vastness of it, and the unreal sounds it was capable of with more operators and more ways of arranging them, it was the very definition of a bottomless pit for tweaking, so bottomless, it rarely was actually used for anything!
The pet shop boys had one near the end of life of the product, and to my knowledge they were the only people to take one home besides stevie wonder and herbie hancock, who owned 2 of them each. Again, the machine, like previous Yamaha monsters was let down by its bulk - the fuc*er weighed as much as a baby elephant in it's custom coffin case!
UNTRUE FACT: the rock supergroup ASIA bought one to take on tour, and abandoned it in frankfurt airport, where it was used as landfill during the construction of the multi-story carpark!
Find one now and expect to pay a grand to ship it, and to rebuild the power supply to reveal the most awesome FM synth ever made.. I would personally murder dem all to own one, it being easily the most tragic bloat in Yamaha's history, and only slightly more usefull then a DX7.
The DX1 is a unique beast, in that it was the 2nd most expensive non-sequencer computer music device ever produced, it being a refined version of Yamaha's early WMD, and most stupid thing ever made - the GS-1.. It shat all over the current Yamaha 6-op king - the DX7, making it appear cheap with it's awesome multi displays and massive control surface.. It also suffered from early FM synth Idle noise, like the DX7, but with the vastness of it, and the unreal sounds it was capable of with more operators and more ways of arranging them, it was the very definition of a bottomless pit for tweaking, so bottomless, it rarely was actually used for anything!
The pet shop boys had one near the end of life of the product, and to my knowledge they were the only people to take one home besides stevie wonder and herbie hancock, who owned 2 of them each. Again, the machine, like previous Yamaha monsters was let down by its bulk - the fuc*er weighed as much as a baby elephant in it's custom coffin case!
UNTRUE FACT: the rock supergroup ASIA bought one to take on tour, and abandoned it in frankfurt airport, where it was used as landfill during the construction of the multi-story carpark!
Find one now and expect to pay a grand to ship it, and to rebuild the power supply to reveal the most awesome FM synth ever made.. I would personally murder dem all to own one, it being easily the most tragic bloat in Yamaha's history, and only slightly more usefull then a DX7.
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