Arturia DX7 V Competition Winner Announced!

Just wanted to say a big thanks to everyone who took part in the Arturia DX7 V Competition. Also thanks to Arturia for putting up the prize.

We do have a winner. Richard K from San Diego, CA, USA. What a great way to start off the 2018.

For those of you who missed out there are plenty more competitions coming soon. If you have not done so already please to subscribe to the mailing list. You will then be one of the first to know when a new prize is on offer.

Here’s a quick reminder of what the Arturia DX7 V is all about:

Bringing back one of the most popular keyboards of all time.

Working with a mainframe computer at Stanford University in the late ‘60s, Dr. John Chowning developed a new digital synthesis technology called frequency modulation (FM). In addition to pioneering new sonic territory, it’s harmonic complexity and rapid transients promised to be more adept at emulating many acoustic sounds than its subtractive analog predecessor. Seeing this musical potential, Yamaha licensed FM from Stanford in 1973 and patiently refined it as the required hardware could be scaled for marketable application.

Yamaha’s perseverance was rewarded when its 1983 introduction of the DX7 upended the keyboard industry. With a palette of bread-and-butter sounds, a modest price tag, early MIDI implementation and 16-voice polyphony, the DX7 outsold many six- or eight-voice analog polysynths costing significantly more. This made it the first commercially successful digital synthesizer by a landslide, with over 200,000 sold through the rest of the decade. It also spawned over a dozen other FM-based offspring with various improvements, many of which we’ve also incorporated in the DX7 V.