I think this preset collection is really quite impressive, and given the DX-100's are quite affordable on the used market, and DX-27's even more so - this just might be a good bet for your first 4OP synth, if you're shopping. There are some gorgeous electric pianos, a wide range of strings (including the sublime Silk Cello), powerhouse patches like the ancestor of the V50's Powerbrass, or the eerie whalesong of Waves. The general consensus is that the other presets are weak, but I'm not sure I agree with that. (Use the Mod Wheel to make the magic happen.) If they sound a little tinny to your ears now, remember, fat basses love tube saturation! You can use FM8's effects rack, switch on Tube Amp and Cabinet, and see an immediate fattening, or use Antares Tube, Amplitube, Vintage Channel, PSP Vintage Warmer, or your own favorite sound-sweetening tube simulation VST to make it really shine. Three, oh, what ROM presets they were! Especially the basses - the DX-100 has a few legendary bass preset, including Easy Synth (the famous DX-100 bass preset), Elec Bass, Mono Bass (adjust portamento to taste), WOW, Metal Keys, and its own unique spin on the sample-and-hold SH Bass. Two, the board fixed the DX-9's memory limitation problem by offering 192 ROM presets. It debuted at $445 - a steal for a genuine FM synthesizer with the same 4OP matrix we knew and loved from higher-end boards. Odd layout, designed for use slung over the shoulder with a strap, Eighties style.a trend that mercifully died with Terminator sunglasses, legwarmers and cement-hold hairspray. Its 49-key range was an octave short of the industry standard 61, and the keys weren't full-size - they were mini-keys, a nightmare for hands used to standard piano keys. For one, it used the same disastrous tape hookup that the DX-9 did, and no cartridge interface. Do yourself a favor, friends, and if you can't find a good price on a DX-100, check out the DX-27. I can only imagine it's because folks don't realize that you can get all the features of the DX-100 with an added full-sized 61-key (albeit not velocity sensitive) keyboard for pittance. And yet, the DX-27 is barely a step above the DX-9 on the used-gear junkpile these days. Its beefier twin, the DX-27, had the sturdier case and full-sized keys, but was otherwise identical, down to the presets and internal logic. It was a board that should have failed, and didn't. If the DX-9 was the big embarrassment of the DX family for its design limitations, the DX-100 was the unexpected smash success.
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