YAMAHA REFACE DX Professional Keyboard

This is really nice & has the DX sounds I decided a large controller was better for my purposes as I have lots of soft synths If you want a great Portable version of A DX7 that’s easy to use though with the Yamaha name this represents great value

An updated version of this would be nice, maybe needing fewer batteries and having longer runtimes, improved patch management/software etc. Money well spent nonetheless!

But you can get more, better, similar results using software nowadays. This is 4opvso not exactly a DX7 alternative.

If you like the FM synth sound you will love this little keyboard. It also has some handy extra features: it has midi in and out, good sounding small stereo speakers and an aux stereo sound input socket. There is lots of support and help on the internet including a large library of sounds that you can load in to your Reface DX. It is surprisingly heavy because it is well made. Some of sound patches you can find are better than the factory patches. You can overwrite any of the 32 patch slots (and get back the original patches easily if you want to).

This is a top quality piece of equipment, make no mistake about that. Jam packed with cracking preset sounds, it's such fun to play and brings back long lost memories of the 1980s! The only criticisms I have are the small keys (which I did get used to) and an inconvenient way to save your own tweaked sounds onto the thing itself (would mean over-writing an existing preset sound). Despite these (minor) grumbles, I would thoroughly recommend this smashing little thing; it looks like a toy but is, in fact, the real deal!!