street priceDX9 is a 16-voice polyphonic synthesizer based on digital 4-operator FM synthesis. There’s no filter section. VCA features an ADSR envelope. Memory provides with 20 patches.
DX9 was released in 1983 – same year DX7 hit the market. Back then it was launched as a cheap alternative to DX7. The unit featured all the issues DX7 had regarding prommability. The MIDI implementation was still limited as well.
Anyway DX series didn’t have unsuccessful models in it offering quality products capable of amusing digital sounds.
Today DX9 is not an option or solution it was developed to be. DX7 price doesn’t seem to bite so there’s no need in buying DX9. DX100 is worth opting for owing to its peculiar bass sound – a textured daring voice of house music, but DX9 offers a similar set of sounds DX7 does.
Tags: digital synthesizer
Country of origin / production: Japan
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| Usage area | |
|---|---|
| Performance Synthesizer | |
| Usage Design/ Form Factor | |
| With Keys | |
| Archetype | |
| Digital (D) | |
| Polyphony | |
| Voices | 16 |
| Multi Timbral Capacity | 1 part(s) |
| Tone Generator / Sound Synthesis | |
| Synthesis Method | Frequency Modulation (FM) |
| Oscillator Type | DCO (Digitally Controlled Oscillator) |
| FM Operators | 4 |
| Waveform/ Spectral form (main generator) | Sine |
| Programs/ Voices/ Timbres | |
| User-defined Single Voice | 20 |
| Envelope Generator (EG) | |
| ADSR | |
| Modulation | |
| LFO: LFO Count | 1 |
| Arpegiator/ Portamento | |
| Portamento | |
| MIDI in/ out | |
| IN | |
| OUT | |
| THRU | |
| Keys | |
| Type | Synth Action |
| Velocity Sensitivity | No |
| Size | 5 |
| Number of Keys | 61 |
| Display | |
| Display type | TFT |
| Built-in controllers | |
| Pitch Bend Wheel | |
| Modulation Wheel | |
| Slider/ Drawbar | 2 |
| External controllers | |
| Breath Controller | |
| Sustain foot pedal | |
| Expression foot pedal | |
| Audio out | |
| Analogue: 1/4" (6.35mm) | 1 |
| Analogue: 1/4" (6.35mm) headphones preamplified | 1 |
| Expandability | |
| Preset Memory Slot/ Wave Expansion Board | 1 |
| Power | |
| Power Supply | Built-in, internal |
| Power consumption | 35 W |
| Dimensions | |
| Height | 102 mm |
| Width | 1018 mm |
| Depth | 329 mm |
| Weight | 12.4 kg |
| Case/ body | |
| Metal | |
| Color | |
| Black | |
| Production start | 1983 |
| Production end | 1987 |
| Production ended | |
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