Yamaha DX100
Category: Products / synthesisers / fm & digital synthesisers
Added: 14-Dec-98 | Author: admin
New price: discontinued | S/H price: £250 or more
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Yamaha DX100
The DX100 is a small mini sized keyboard, with guitar strap toggles on either end... small, Light & easily trasportable in a bag or holdall, this synth whilst having a mini-feel packs the punch with 4 banks external & 4 banks internal plus a performance bank each of 24 sounds.
As this is the one that originated chicago house it has gained status as it has all the presets, however Derrick May's DX100 of the time at some point had an Oberheim Matrix 12 filter shoe-horned into it but whatever, this is the one wqith the Solid Bass & house organ presets that have been used endlessly
With a patch dump, theoretically, it is possible to save the main sounds its famous for & dump them to any of the other 4 OP Yamaha FM units like the TX81Z, DX9, DX27, 21 etc... however they would have to have the same algorithms as the DX100, so that'd have to be checked....
The mini keys can go on these, but it's the sounds you want & if they keys go you just trigger it from another master MIDI keyboard or pencil in notes in your DAW
A veritable House Jungle garage & whatever else - fest... garage & house & to an extent Jungle & drum & bass are this synths mainstay, but i've heard high-pitched harp patches ripping fast arppegios on Hard House tunes and many others....
Cheezy organs, solid bass and lots inbetween.....
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Product: Yamaha - DX100
Name: kilo
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Activity: Professional
Date: 07-Apr-99
i'm gonna add a download of the dx-100 patches for other 4 op owners to load soon...
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Product: Yamaha - DX100
Name: zippy tha chimp
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Activity: part-timer
Date: 29-Mar-00
this synth iz very very under rated. I use it in almost every track. tha EPz sound tha same as tha onez on tha DX7. tha organz can be tweek'd to get very usable onez. it even does very phat analog bassez that are dirtyer than a $5 whore. and letz not forget tha insane buzzez, rumblez, wind noisez and metalic stabz you can get outa this thing, makin' it very good for experimental noize/ambient stuff. there, now u have no reason not to get one. especialy now that they're goin' for $100-$150
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Product: Yamaha - DX100
Name: Brutal Chud
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Activity: Hobby-ist
Date: 19-Nov-00
Heh, somebody just gave me one of these, very, very fun shit, hard to get anything useful out of one, you'll need an fx processor and something like a sherman filterbank would be good too, but the sounds that come out from it are like nothing else, they are dirt cheap, i highly reccomend one...
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Product: Yamaha - DX100
Name: phunkytek
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Activity: Professional
Date: 20-Nov-00
True,some eq, and reverb is all it needs. The strings are nice and great for slide fx with porta, and the pianos and basses are perfect for old chicago house. I love mine. Got it for $80. Orbital used it extensively on Halcyon.
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Product: Yamaha - DX100
Name: JE:5
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Activity: Professional
Date: 12-Jun-01
Mines broken (the led comes on but it doesn't make any noise) Anyone know of a place to get it fixed?
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Product: Yamaha - DX100
Name: jiji
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Activity: Hobby-ist
Date: 18-Feb-02
hi
i am a proud owner of dx100
but i dont know how to edit the built in tones. i tried much. but not in perfect. if anybody knows the techniques or the values (mean freq. lfo, alg etc)of my fav. tones like arccodian, harmonicca, wave forms (attack) please mail to me. i am kid in this field especially midi/ synth programing.
warm welcom for any suggestions
luv
jiji
india, kerala
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Product: Yamaha - DX100
Name: k
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Activity: Professional
Date: 19-Feb-02
on the dx100, the 4 buttons marked Bank a, b, c & d are also marked in purple text as: operator/ams on/off - you enter EDIT with the main EDIT/COMPARE button, then follow the purple-text above each button for the parameters - when in edit mode, each of the 4 OPERATOR buttons switches the 4 operators on/off so you can hear each one in isolation as you edit, but remember to look at which algorithm you are using for the sound cos the operators effect each other where they are stacked in series. There is no filter by the way on a dx.
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Product: Yamaha - DX100
Name: carl
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Activity: Hobby-ist
Date: 13-Sep-03
first synth i ever used. sharp as a triangle shaped lemmon. great strings. easy to use FM synth. buy it it's fucking wicked you can wear it on a strap a guitar/sh 101. it's got battery power and it sounds completely fucked through a flanger. insaneness!!!!!!!
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Product: Yamaha - DX100
Name: black josh
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Date: 08-Dec-04
i have the same problem as mentioned above. it powers up but does not function.
what is wrong? any tips?
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Product: Yamaha - DX100
Name: Mike
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Activity: Hobby-ist
Date: 20-Mar-05
I think I have this (power) problem 10-15 years ago...
First, I found than the soldering on the PCB was realy fragile, so every connectors
was easy to broke the solder link (sorry for my poor english...)
Second, the adaptor (AC to DC) is -in between- 2 kind of jack; so if the first jack of
my universal AC/DC adaptor was to small and, with heavy use, the 2nd jack is OK
but is too large and give a lot of space in the soket of the DX... (I hope you can
understand what I thy to say...)
Good luck
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Product: Yamaha - DX100
Name: Akamaluka
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Activity: Hobby-ist
Date: 05-Dec-06
If anyone needs one of these, I can get one that looks like it's in pretty good condition. One key looks like it was reglued back on. I'll check it out more if anybody wants it. Just let me know.
Akamaluka
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Product: Yamaha - DX100
Name: mark
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nun
Activity: part-timer
Date: 09-Feb-08
hey sum one let me no wer i can get one please! e-mail me!!!!!!
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Product: Yamaha - DX100
Name: Bernard
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www.midimetric.com
Activity: part-timer
Date: 15-Apr-09
Midimetric UniSynth version 1.0 for XP/Vista is now available
The demo version is fully operable and freely downloadable.
Version 1.0 supports the Yamaha DX21/DX27/DX27S/DX100:
- full patch editing
- Real Time* graph
- manages assigning ROM patches to A,B,C,D banks for the DX27/100
- manages pitch envelope of the DX21
- functions initialize, randomize and morph
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Product: Yamaha - DX100
Name: flymow
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Activity: Hobby-ist
Date: 11-Apr-11
An awesome little synth in every respect - versatile, bombproof and always sounds fresh as a daisy. It has consistently managed to fit in with every composition I have created over the last 20 years. It does sound incredible through external effects: I use mine with a Zoom9001, Electroharmonix Phaser pedal and Sherman Filterbank. If it had been built with analogue filtering, it would have been incredible.
The only problem I have with it is that the buttons on the front panel are starting to fail, so it may be transplanted into a custom built case with new buttons in due course.
Original asking price was £349, I bought mine from my music teacher in 1985 for £150 2nd hand and I have seen them going for between £85 and £100 in the present day.
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Product: Yamaha - DX100
Name: flymow
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Activity: Hobby-ist
Date: 11-Apr-11
[quote] JE:5 wrote: Mines broken (the led comes on but it doesnt make any noise) Anyone know of a place to get it fixed? [/quote]
Yes, this often happens when the thing has been dropped or the circuit boards disconnected - often necessary when cleaning the key contacts. There is a button sequence in the manual to reset the user defaults and go back to the original software image. It's in the user manual, but is (if I remember correctly) hold down these buttons together:
internal, function, yes and no for 30 seconds.
Hope I've got this right. Loz :o)
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