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Yamaha DX7
Raised as a usability problem by 12 people on Hacker News over 6 years (2019–2024), in 6 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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FM parameter changes have unpredictable effects on soundUnreviewed
20192026- Tiny parameter changes cause wild, unpredictable sound changes, making patches hard to program2024-12-05
- Hard to build a mental model of how parameters change the sound2020-05-05
- FM parameter changes have unpredictable, non-intuitive effects on the sound2019-09-29
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 12 complaints
- First revision membrane buttons make programming the synth difficult2024-12-05
- Limited interface of three buttons and abbreviated text is hard to use2024-12-05
- Small LCD and data entry buttons hide settings that analog knobs showed at once2024-12-05
- Configuration interface is effectively unusable by most people2024-12-05
- Tiny parameter changes cause wild, unpredictable sound changes, making patches hard to program2024-12-05
- Preset FM algorithms with fixed modulation routings are needlessly confusing to use2024-08-08
- Only buttons and menus, no real-time control, unpleasant to use2021-01-01
- Commenter could never figure out how to program the DX7 synthesizer2020-05-05
- Hard to build a mental model of how parameters change the sound2020-05-05
- FM parameter changes have unpredictable, non-intuitive effects on the sound2019-09-29
- About 100 parameters are hard to program via the front panel2019-09-28
- Editing sounds was so hard through menus that few musicians did it2019-06-17