So, who won? Obviously, today, late 80s music sounds very dated particularly because of the use of those DX7 sounds. I think more or less every track on Madonna's "True Blue" album utilizes the sound, for instance (listen to "La Isla Bonita" as a very typical example). It was used on "You Spin Me Around" by Dead Or Alive, and then on about every possible pop song during the end of the 80s. The other cliche preset is the bass sound that sounds slightly like a funky slap bass, but only slightly.
One was the electric piano sound, which is a wonderful electric piano sound if only used for glossy ballads, but sounding way uninteresting when used as a replacement for traditional synth bells etc.
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Plus at least two of the presents quickly became cliches, used in about half of all keyboard based music. On the other hand, it isn't sampling based, and whatever "real" instruments it tried to ape didn't sound "real". It doesn't sound like a synth in the traditional way, is unable to create the warm analog sounds that synthpop fans such as me had gotten used to love. My main problem with the DX7 is that it was neither fish nor flesh. A lot of people consider it a classic because of it, but to me, it's a dud and nothing but a dud. This is one of the bestselling synths ever, it completely changed the way synths sounded and were programmed.