In a peak moment of pop monoculture, synthesizers pumped up songs and MTV forever changed how artists were seen. Here’s how — ...

Kevin Boone writes about the Yamaha DX7, which changed everything when it turned up in the mid-1980s: "the 'Electric Piano 1' preset alone appeared in over 60% of album releases of 1986." It was ...

These four famous musicians used standard keyboard presets for some of their biggest hit songs; and a few of them might just ...

The Yamaha DX7 was more than a synthesizer—it was the heartbeat of the 1980s. From Whitney Houston to Brian Eno, discover how this groundbreaking instrument shaped pop, ballads, and even ambient music ...