Hi EquipBoard Artists! Have you "recreated" or reimagined... Q&A

Was just stopping by... I am redesigning a DX11 for my wife, and.... have you ever noticed the sublime 80's color scheme Yamaha chose for the DX's? Of Course, black, white, that sea foam green, but... I guess I never noticed... I was cleaning this looking at everything and noticed (for the first time :) ) brown and pink in the color scheme of the buttons. A lot of Brown letters but just one Pink... I changed that. lol.

No its not all pink... goodness im not that sacralidge.. posting soon..

Do you have any redesigned or reimagined music instrument you've added to Equipboard?

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long time yamaha fanboy. the early DXs are indeed prettier than the mk2s and the sy series! No need to mess with my original 80s dx7 mk1... gorgeous as is.... love my korg dw6000s too. My prophet doesn't have thelooks but the black and white screams "serious instrument" to me :-)

How extensive of a redesign are we talking about here? Is this a new paint job and exterior graphics, or did you change the functionality of the device? Maybe you re-wrote the firmware and shortened the DX-11's key-bed to 37 keys?

I was assuming paint job but maybe he shoud buy a crazy colored keybed....

I was assuming paint job but maybe he shoud buy a crazy colored keybed....

I've never played a DX11, but I know the Mk1 keybed on DX7 has a unique clicky feel... it would be a shame to mess up something like that.

I don't think the 4ops share the dx7 keybed

I don't think the 4ops share the dx7 keybed

That's a bummer. I was always interested in the DX11 because I was a big TX81z guy and, the DX11 was the closest thing to a TX81z with keys... plus u-ziq's Lunatic Harness album was the record that got me to finally take MIDI seriously, and I think Mike P. used a DX11, D50 and EMU ESI sampler on most every track on that album... fun stuff.

I got to repair my first Prophet, but got sick last March and was never able to finish it lol, it was so close too. I did get to finish the detail on it. I'll post some pics , I finally found them again lol. Oh the Korgs.... I used to HATE korg... not sure why... the first one I touched was plastic.... it really was a bummer for me as a kid. I was in a store with Jupiter-8's and Roland System 100's all metal, ARPs, MetaL!!!... that was my early formation of what a synth should be made of metal.. It's why my first real "keyboard" synth was a MiniBRUTE..lol its funny now. Many many years later....But then Volcas came out. I was intrigued for sure. My first was the Volca Bass. I try not to embellish info on them, because a lot of what you can do with them is really under the rug so to speak with the exception of the Volca Bass... "bless their hearts.".. I love that instrument. The schematics rock. I've compared what I can do with it sound-wise, to what I can do with my TD-3 and even my microKorg . It so much much more "rewarding" the things you can do; of which some are just basic amazing things, like easily creating Space Echo like Reverb. It takes some time to let it start self modulating but by inducing lfo waves into motion recording and twisting LFO and ENV knobs, it just began to echo... I was like... I gotta remember how I did that. lol It's no wonder they have the motion recording on all the new models of synths. I like the DWs I fell in love with the Free Poly800 from FullBucket. Wow.. and his 3300 try it. I pluged my Korg into it and it was like playing a hardware synth. They both play nice together and passed information back and forth with no real mapping other than the "famous 4"

No keep wishing lol https://equipboard.com/gear_photos/9115 But some fun stuff and new paint details.

I agree. I'm a purist at heart when it comes to electronics, but when I see an opportunity to add something that will make it better like the multi input joystick just above the pitch bend wheels so that while you hand is "rubbin" the wheels... your fingers can be put to work to... https://equipboard.com/gear_photos/9115 this is the paint I did around the wheel area before I said a prayer and asked for forgiveness.... I drilled a hole into the panel above the benders and in the middle, is a purple circle dome... a very sleek JOYSTICK!! lol....

Nope didn't mess with its keybed other than cleaned and replaced the felt... Its so clean and re-added new lithium grease down in the plastic just like I removed from it, but mine was much cleaner...lol.

I had a poly800 for year, much maligned successor to the monopoly, but yeah, chintzy... I'll have to try the softwae, usually fullbucket nails it as well as any programmer can.

I currently have a Polysix, Poly61 and DW6000, all built like tanks, but particularly the mighty poly6, heaviest synth I own.

On prophets, was it the mythical prophet5 or a 600 like mine? The 600 is a helluva lot lighter, but by no means chintzy. It also is no slouch in the sound department. Just a biscuit less amazing than the 5, and pretty darn close to the alter 5s even though they use somewhat different curtis chips. The rev1 with SSM chips is the one that's noticeably better to my ear.... same chips are in a polysix. If you ever have a chance to snag a polysix don't hesitate.