The DX is widely known for it's great rhodes electric pianos, bells, killer synth basses (the "lately bass" being especially popular) and metalic type synth sounds. It's digital FM synthesis was able to create a wide range of new sounds that you just were not able to produce on a analog synth. Of course, besides the affordable price, what made it so popular were the sounds that you could produce on one.
And boy was it every successful! Every keyboard player from guys playing in their garage to the biggest names in the music business bought one and before it was discontinued in the late 80's, the DX became one of the biggest selling synths of all time. The DX was the first commercially successful digital synths. Until the DX7 burst on the music scene, most synthesizers were all analog based. Released by Yamaha in 1983, the DX7 is another one of those landmark synthesizers in the history of electronic instruments.
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