Lex Luthor you mean the Minimoog? The Dx7 is more versatile than the minimoog, it can create much more sounds. I can easily create a moog-sounding FAT bass or lead by connecting a dx7 with an external filter (i have this setup)
Moogs are great synths, but the DX7 is (or at least was) more versatile in terms of it's sound creation ability, but I'm sure you know that. Nothing wrong with Moog it just serves a different purpose.
@@martinschranz660 also like, you can really easily run an arpeggiator from the computer. I love my DX7ii but i wouldn't ever call it the "greatest synth ever". Maybe it is for you, but to me it's a certain area or palette of sounds, analog synths serve some very different areas.
Excellent demo of the Dx7 II. I have the module version, TX802. I need to load lots of my original patches from my DX7 Mk1 and use it as a sound module for recording with my DX7 Mk 1. By the way, you can create amazing analog pad and string patches with the DX7 Mk 1 without layering ( I have the SuperMAX board installed in my DX7 Mk I but I don't use it). I have a dedicated hardware effector Lexicon MX400, making my DX7 Mk 1 sound magic. Long Live DX7!!!
I know, I used FM7 and even FM8 for a few years before I finally decided I would buy an old DX7. To me there's a huge difference between FM7 and DX7. I find that you can't really get that good old electric piano sound on the FM7. And I find hardware in general to be much more direct and inspirational than soft synths.
Thank you! I'm really glad you liked it! About the fragment: it's just some basic chords really... The beginning of the video at 0:04 I play the chords for "The Final Countdown" and at 7:09 it's "You're the inspiration" otherwise just me improvising.
The performance capability of the DX7IId offer much complex sounds than the DX7 first model. It sounds warmer, this synth is really awesome, so much versatile.. FM at his best.
Wow , this synth is like the missing link. Never realized a digital synth could sound so warm and pleasant. I really love it’s sound. Would fit in any mix perfectly
Thank you for your kind words! Remember, most of them I've just collected and then made dual (performance) patches from, so I can't take much credit for it, but I'm glad you appreciate it.
that's amazing man , all do respect I'm so jealous. I have a Yamaha dx100 , but this is like having 4 of my dx100 together at once! great great job on your patch!
All the patches you show un this video are fantastics, DX7 it's , but the electric piano you play beetwen 7:08 and 7:56 it's the best one for me. So Peter Cetera!! Take me to my fifteen inmediatly in the first chord! You play very nice too. Congrats.
Thanks! Yes, the DX7II is really good at strings and pads as a matter of fact. Why don't you get a DX7II again if you miss it? The're not that expensive I mean. I found mine on Ebay for about 300 Euro. And IMHO VSTs doesn't come close to a real DX7.
roboticrealm I know. I've just can't rid of this thought since your video. I think I will go for it. I used to have an SY77 too but unfortunately it's really hard to find nowadays any TG77, SY77, SY99 in a relatively good state regarding especially their display.
I can never get enough of the DX7 and D-50. If not even for the sound, than at least for the looks. I mean, why designers made desirable instruments back then, and today's designers seem to throw tings on front panels at random without any sense of taste?
Looks like it could use a cleaning... Some nice sounds, especially the synth strings. I’ve been playing with a TX802. It can stack eight programs. Unfortunately, despite all the DX sounds out on the internet. I can’t seem to find many sounds that aren’t generic FM sounds (most of them sound the same and there’s no complete collection that doesn’t include tons of duplication). I know FM synthesis is more diverse than what it sounds like, but... There also seem to be no 3rd-party performances for the TX802 (you have to include the actual voices for performances to be portable).
Doubtful, I have one, not enough operators or control of them I would think, nothing has come out of mine with that level of complexity in the sound quality.
roboticrealm The PAD @ 4:40 is very interesting. I doubt very much I could get that out of a DX7(Mk1). Is rich. humming and fuzzy. And @ 8:10 is equally beautiful with a thick bottom end. Are these both DUAL LAYER mode please?
monsterjazzlicks ALL the patches in this video are Dual layer patches. I explain it in the info/description of the video (under the video). Just read it. That's why you can't make these patches that I demonstrate in this video on a DX7 MK1.
Awesome showcase of what a DX7mkII can do! I just grabbed the performance data (THANK YOU!) and noticed some cartridge banks in there... do these performance files require a particular cartridge to work? Or a RAM cartridge loaded with the included cartridge patches? Thanks again - can't wait to check these out! The pads are stunning!
The sound at 7:08 is already from the keyboard ? The ones that are not from the keyboard itself once I buy one: the dropbox link you share with sounds I guess, how do u have to do to get them into the DX7 II ?
I recently bought a DX7IIFD. but it didn't come with any Cartridge (a ROM or RAM)?. So I bough a floppy disk with loads of sounds from an Ebayer from France. Unfortunately I've not been able to correctly load the sounds on to it to be able to hear them and therefore save them for Performance use. I love some of the patch sounds you have on this video as I'm in a new romantic 80's tribute band. I don't know what the SYSEX thing is mentioned below as I've only the floppy disk I bought. Any tips you can offer will be warmly received. I'm not sure, if the 64 sounds currently on the synth are the factory sounds or made by the former owner? Tony aka Semi-tone
DX7s are wonderful instrument. I got a SY35 a while ago - for about half the money you've got to pay for a DX7. The SY35 has digital and analog waveforms which you can combine (2 or 4 different sounds). You can use a joystick to move between those sounds (like Kawai's K1). The SY35 is absolutely underrated imho.
If you give me your email adress I can send you the patch. To load them you need the program DX Manager from fm-alive. Just google it and you'll find it right away. It costs only $20 and is well worth the price if you want to be able to program your DX7 easily and load patches from the internet into your synth. Of course you need a midi interface and midi cables for your computer, but I asume you already have that. To get the patches to stay in your synth you press Edit and then 14 and turn memory protect to off on your synth.
Thanks! I don't know exactly. I will check when I get home from work. It's some kind of ROM cartridge so it's nothing fancy. Quite boring sounds on it actually. It was included when I bought the synth.
Hi I just have a quick questions If I up load all the patches as per th elink will they override my current sounds and just one quick question how many sounds are there in the available link ?
5:20 urrgh...sounds like the music you used to get on an American Tv show just before the end credits would roll.....so puke making...so great at the same time
No I haven't. There are quite a lot of good Poly 61 videos already here on youtube and I don't know if I can contribute with something new....but maybe I'll give it a shot when I have the time.
roboticrealm That would be great because I am sure you could come up with something interesting. Like a little tutorial of some of the main parameters. Most people just play stupid chords on it and wiggle the pitch-bend! lol
monsterjazzlicks I've made a little video of the Poly-61 now. No tutorial but a little demo of how it sounds, like all my other videos: th-cam.com/video/37dCPoCA9J8/w-d-xo.html
Best DX7 IID demo heard so far :-) I really want to get that smooth 'sawtoothpad'sound at 8:00, performance 29. Can you help me with it? Or an idea how it's made/layered? Thanks!
I managed to to check real quick tonight. I'm about to go away in a few minutes so here goes: The sound consists of two patches named *ana.Str. and *Str.ssimo. No Dual detune used. Make sure the pan button is lit. Hope that helps!
roboticrealm Thanks very much! Now i just need to find these patches. It seems that they originally came from the "PA-decoder MONST-ROM" card, which sell on ebay for more than 50euros.
Bob Augustin There are loads and loads of patches for free on the internet for the DX7. Just check Dave Benson's DX7 Page. I think you'll probably find them there. Or check out Thiago Gomes patches here on youtube. He has some really fantastic patches also.
Thanks! Well, maybe the patches I found on the internet, which I've based my performance patches on, are newer than the ones people created for it during the 80's...I don't know...
The first example and also the moogy type one sound brilliant ! I have a DX7 Mk1 and DX21 I am learning. Would really love a chat some time if you were around (maybe on Skype) ?
monsterjazzlicks The first performance patch was on on the instrument when I bought it and the moogy patch is Paul Mangrus patch that I've only doubled and and done som dual detune on. Mr Mangru is an excellent programmer when it comes to the DX7. Be sure to check out his stuff here on TH-cam. I don't think I could teach you much about the DX7. It's very hard to program and the only things I'm apparently good at, since people seem to like my video, is to layer two patches on top of each other and make it sound good. With a Mk1 DX7 or a DX21 you can't do that so I probably can't help you there...
Ok man, cheers. I just wanted to chat about a couple of basic fundamental things which are common to all DX's and which are drastically holding me back from getting off the ground here.
monsterjazzlicks One thing I've begun to notice however is that if you take a patch and first check which algorythm it uses, and look at the picture of that algorythm on the synth, the operators at the bottom row are the ones you should begin to edit if you want to change attack, decay, sustain and release. If this is what you want you try and go to these operators in edit mode and change the EG (envelope generator). Which parameter attack, sustain and so forth is, is hard to know, but if you change the values on R1, R2, R3 and so forth you will eventually find attack, sustain etc.
Do you think it would be worth it to get rid of a DX7 mkI to get a II? I got a mkI because I was young and dumb and now I kick myself for not getting a mkII when they were the same price online haha.
Well, I don't know. Perhaps. It all depends on what you're after and what you like. I have a DX7 mkI at work, and I borrowed it and brought it home at one time to compare the two. The mkI sounds a bit dirtier and "lo-fi" than the mkII. Some people think that the mkI therefore sounds better. To me it's much more important to be able to stack two sounds, which you can only do with a mkII. I also like to be able to use the unison mode, which I think is also only available with mkII. With mkI I think you really need effects to make it sound good. MkII can sound good without that, even though it too really shines if you put on effects.
@@roboticrealm I did end up selling the mki and I got a mkii. Well worth it for the stereo outs, split/layering, and the enhanced midi. A small thing I never really saw people talk about is the ability for multiple LFO's, it seems like that's a big source of subtle change in the mkii.
Well, not really. Performance patches or dual patches, where you layer two patches on top of each other, like I've done in this video, is not possible with a DX7 MKI. However, the basic single patches is still playable on a MKI. This was the whole reason I bought myself a MKII DX7.
Well, I'm not sure. It depends on what you're after. If you like the sounds from it then go for it. But if you want a synth with which you can program your own sounds, and really learn how to program a synth from the start, then it's not recommended as a first synth. FM synths are hard to program. I would more consider the Juno 60 or Juno 106 to be a great first synth. They sound very good and are easy to program. Again, it all depends on what you want.
However, it has 16 voice polyphony which is really nice, and the keybed is excellent. The DX7 II always feels very nice and inspiring to play. The same goes for the JX-8P (compared to let's say my XP-50 from the mid -90s that is aweful in that regard). So I would consider the DX7 a musician's instrument more then say if you want to be able to program...
roboticrealm oh! Thank you for the quick answer. I currently own a midi controller (Arturia Minilab mkII) but I’m thinking about a bigger keybed, and I really love the DX7 sounds ❤️
@@ArturJanz If you are to use the DX7 as a midi controller, one thing to think about is that it only sends midi velocity up to 100 instead of 127. Nowadays there are quite a few great sounds for the DX7 to find. It can be a chore to find them amongst all the thousands of sounds there is on the internet but, well I have a few, and you can find other great ones if you search through youtube. Here's a soundset I bought a few years ago: th-cam.com/video/QJ-T4vawTH0/w-d-xo.html
DX7 IID. One of the best 80’s synths!
Don't forget on the DX7 II FD :). I have just bought it today. You made me a litlle bit more proud .
The finest synthesiser ever created: The DX7 IID
Better than the Moog?
Lex Luthor you mean the Minimoog? The Dx7 is more versatile than the minimoog, it can create much more sounds. I can easily create a moog-sounding FAT bass or lead by connecting a dx7 with an external filter (i have this setup)
Moogs are great synths, but the DX7 is (or at least was) more versatile in terms of it's sound creation ability, but I'm sure you know that. Nothing wrong with Moog it just serves a different purpose.
No not natively. You can install the grey matter E! card which enables an arpeggiator, among other features.
@@martinschranz660 also like, you can really easily run an arpeggiator from the computer. I love my DX7ii but i wouldn't ever call it the "greatest synth ever". Maybe it is for you, but to me it's a certain area or palette of sounds, analog synths serve some very different areas.
just flashes of all the 80's movies I grew up on come flooding in while listening to this
The sounds of my childhood, the 80s were such a great era. Awesome Job.
سلح
The ultimate drug, the synthesizer.
lol
Excellent demo of the Dx7 II. I have the module version, TX802. I need to load lots of my original patches from my DX7 Mk1 and use it as a sound module for recording with my DX7 Mk 1. By the way, you can create amazing analog pad and string patches with the DX7 Mk 1 without layering ( I have the SuperMAX board installed in my DX7 Mk I but I don't use it). I have a dedicated hardware effector Lexicon MX400, making my DX7 Mk 1 sound magic. Long Live DX7!!!
A legendary, must-have synth ever made.
Using it together with analogue or VA synthesizers makes it sound even better!
You're absolutely right! It's a perfect complement to all my analogue gear. A must-have as you say. It's very inspiring.
@4:54 just outstanding ornamental chord work, perfectly paired with the timeless EP patch
Thank you!
The classics never die
I know, I used FM7 and even FM8 for a few years before I finally decided I would buy an old DX7. To me there's a huge difference between FM7 and DX7. I find that you can't really get that good old electric piano sound on the FM7. And I find hardware in general to be much more direct and inspirational than soft synths.
Man, this is so wonderful, I listened to it in a loop a couple of hours non-stop. I especially like the 2:35-3:10 fragment.
Thank you! I'm really glad you liked it! About the fragment: it's just some basic chords really...
The beginning of the video at 0:04 I play the chords for "The Final Countdown" and at 7:09 it's "You're the inspiration" otherwise just me improvising.
i also want that part looped
The performance capability of the DX7IId offer much complex sounds than the DX7 first model. It sounds warmer, this synth is really awesome, so much versatile.. FM at his best.
Wow , this synth is like the missing link. Never realized a digital synth could sound so warm and pleasant. I really love it’s sound.
Would fit in any mix perfectly
your patches are pretty legendary man. thanks for sharing!
Thank you for your kind words! Remember, most of them I've just collected and then made dual (performance) patches from, so I can't take much credit for it, but I'm glad you appreciate it.
3:12 - 4:00 such a lovely pad and chord progression!
Very nice demo, finally a true player and not some sequenced dance junk! Thank you!
THANK YOU so much for sharing the patches and for the awesome demo!
that's amazing man , all do respect I'm so jealous. I have a Yamaha dx100 , but this is like having 4 of my dx100 together at once! great great job on your patch!
Thank you!
This is so freaking amazing! I just bought this board, can't wait for it to arrive next week... Great demo, really nice patches!
Always enjoying the DX7 sound!
These performance patches are great! Exactly what I needed for the song I'm working on right now :-)
I have the DX7 IIFD.
My experience with my DX7II tells me that FX helps a lot to improve DX sound. Beautiful sounds demonstrated here.
Thanks for the patches link. This one actually includes the performance data too.:-)
All the patches you show un this video are fantastics, DX7 it's , but the electric piano you play beetwen 7:08 and 7:56 it's the best one for me. So Peter Cetera!! Take me to my fifteen inmediatly in the first chord! You play very nice too. Congrats.
Thank you
your patchs are exellents and it work fine with FM8
especially the first one "Ensemble"
I used to have a DX7IIFD and I'm crying back that time. At 3.15 the strings/pad sounds so beautiful!
Thanks! Yes, the DX7II is really good at strings and pads as a matter of fact. Why don't you get a DX7II again if you miss it? The're not that expensive I mean. I found mine on Ebay for about 300 Euro. And IMHO VSTs doesn't come close to a real DX7.
roboticrealm I know. I've just can't rid of this thought since your video. I think I will go for it. I used to have an SY77 too but unfortunately it's really hard to find nowadays any TG77, SY77, SY99 in a relatively good state regarding especially their display.
Gabor Ok. Good luck! I hope you find a DX7II in good condition!
Bro,Its amazing!!! Very good patches!
Great work! I love hearing new takes on this great synth.
Beautiful. Great programming.
wow
this is absolutely sick
Fantastic patches! Tons of usable stuff there!
Thanks!
Great demo! Your DX7 videos are awesome!
Such a pleasing demonstration. 🎶
4:55 best song! Love this patch!! Mine came Next month! :)
I can never get enough of the DX7 and D-50. If not even for the sound, than at least for the looks. I mean, why designers made desirable instruments back then, and today's designers seem to throw tings on front panels at random without any sense of taste?
Thank you very much for the presets !!! It sounds AMAZING!!!
Thank you! Glad you liked them!
Great playing and great patches! Thanks for sharing them :-)
Thank you!
Thanks! Yes, you're absolutely right. I bought a TC Electronic M350 some time after I made this video which I now use all the time with the DX7 IID.
Thank you very much! I'm glad you liked my demo! :-)
Excelente demo: saludos desde Honduras. Gracias.
Great demo. Thank you for file sharing.
Thanks for sharing, I enjoy the patches :-)
Wuts the first patch
5:31 bells sounds awesome
Nice sounds , thanks for sharing
Thanks for sharing your sysex; these are great!!!
7:08 Chicago - You're the insparation
Looks like it could use a cleaning... Some nice sounds, especially the synth strings. I’ve been playing with a TX802. It can stack eight programs. Unfortunately, despite all the DX sounds out on the internet. I can’t seem to find many sounds that aren’t generic FM sounds (most of them sound the same and there’s no complete collection that doesn’t include tons of duplication). I know FM synthesis is more diverse than what it sounds like, but... There also seem to be no 3rd-party performances for the TX802 (you have to include the actual voices for performances to be portable).
7:08 is my favourite song in this video
4:01 is it possible to recreate this sound on a reface dx?
Doubtful, I have one, not enough operators or control of them I would think, nothing has come out of mine with that level of complexity in the sound quality.
Man, those are some great patches. i just got a Dx7iid form eBay and I hope I can get these sounds in there.
Thank you! (eller Tack kanske man ska säga i detta fallet ;-) )
Lovely PAD at around 3:20 !
Thanks!
agreed! Also 4:01 , 7:58 , but every patch tested here are 1st Class classics :)
yahnsolo Thank you yahnsolo! The patch at 4:01 I've made all by myself.
roboticrealm The PAD @ 4:40 is very interesting. I doubt very much I could get that out of a DX7(Mk1). Is rich. humming and fuzzy. And @ 8:10 is equally beautiful with a thick bottom end.
Are these both DUAL LAYER mode please?
monsterjazzlicks ALL the patches in this video are Dual layer patches. I explain it in the info/description of the video (under the video). Just read it. That's why you can't make these patches that I demonstrate in this video on a DX7 MK1.
wonderful sounds!
8:00 best patch
Very close to analog synth sound!
Excellent bells
FM Synthesis is great once you learn it.
Awesome showcase of what a DX7mkII can do! I just grabbed the performance data (THANK YOU!) and noticed some cartridge banks in there... do these performance files require a particular cartridge to work? Or a RAM cartridge loaded with the included cartridge patches? Thanks again - can't wait to check these out! The pads are stunning!
The sound at 7:08 is already from the keyboard ? The ones that are not from the keyboard itself once I buy one: the dropbox link you share with sounds I guess, how do u have to do to get them into the DX7 II ?
4:55- 5:30 excelente P.E. yo tube un yamaha igual ahora me arrepiento por haberme desecho de el, se está convirtiendo en todo un clasico.
Ja, det är möjligt.
that on start , remind me on Ella - Ella intro ? Nice playing . Some sound are analogy warm or silky digital .
The chords in the beginning are from the song The Final Countdown by Europe. Ella Ella uses similar chords however...
Just check it out , only D is similar . Grove , chord progression , different , at all .
And here I was thinking it was Rescue Rangers
I recently bought a DX7IIFD. but it didn't come with any Cartridge (a ROM or RAM)?. So I bough a floppy disk with loads of sounds from an Ebayer from France.
Unfortunately I've not been able to correctly load the sounds on to it to be able to hear them and therefore save them for Performance use.
I love some of the patch sounds you have on this video as I'm in a new romantic 80's tribute band.
I don't know what the SYSEX thing is mentioned below as I've only the floppy disk I bought.
Any tips you can offer will be warmly received. I'm not sure, if the 64 sounds currently on the synth are the factory sounds or made by the former owner?
Tony aka Semi-tone
I'm upgrading to a DX7 IID so i dual sounds and listen to it in Stereo.
DX7s are wonderful instrument. I got a SY35 a while ago - for about half the money you've got to pay for a DX7. The SY35 has digital and analog waveforms which you can combine (2 or 4 different sounds). You can use a joystick to move between those sounds (like Kawai's K1). The SY35 is absolutely underrated imho.
It's quite similar to the SY22 is it not? Check out my video on that one if you haven't already.
The SY35 seems to be the fancy version of the SY22 (16 bit instead of 12 bit).
Ok thanks I only asked because they sound amazing
Thanks! Let me know if you want them as sysex file or something like that.
once i used to own one of these m2. best touche i ve ever had. Now i have sy35. It is also ok.
The lovely DX e-piano simply screams for sus chords.
Legend
hello, i have a DX7IIFD
yeah the sysex file would be great so that i can load these sounds.... is it easy to load them and how?
If you give me your email adress I can send you the patch.
To load them you need the program DX Manager from fm-alive. Just google it and you'll find it right away. It costs only $20 and is well worth the price if you want to be able to program your DX7 easily and load patches from the internet into your synth.
Of course you need a midi interface and midi cables for your computer, but I asume you already have that.
To get the patches to stay in your synth you press Edit and then 14 and turn memory protect to off on your synth.
jazzmeister@gmail.com
Thanx
Jazz Devil Ok, I've sent you the patches now. Hopefully there wont be any problems.
thanx
Thanks! I don't know exactly. I will check when I get home from work. It's some kind of ROM cartridge so it's nothing fancy. Quite boring sounds on it actually. It was included when I bought the synth.
@Bas Ti I checked The ROM cartridge and it just says on the label that it's a ROM cartridge, nothing more...
Ok,thanks Robotic.......
robótico
Many thanks for sharing your patches man. Appreciated. I just don't get it that Yamaha made the synth mono.
Thanks. Well, the DX7IID is in stereo....sort of. If you layer two sounds you can put one to the left and one to the right.
Hi I just have a quick questions If I up load all the patches as per th elink will they override my current sounds and just one quick question how many sounds are there in the available link ?
Super sons de DX7!
alguien me puede decir el nombre del patche 16 que suena en el minuto 4:56? gracias de antemano por la instruccion.
Full tines
Min 7:09 , best sound ever
Wonderful FM sounds! I´m trying to recreate these sounds (from 4:55 to 7:55) in my DS-8, but I still don´t find that exactly tone.
Will this work with NI FM7 or FM8? Or any other emulation of the DX7?
Sounds good
I just bought some headphones for my keyboard but I don't know where to plug it in, and when I do plug it in I don't hear no sound from the keys
Check the manual: www.synthmanuals.com/manuals/yamaha/dx7ii_fd_d/owners_manual/
5:20 urrgh...sounds like the music you used to get on an American Tv show just before the end credits would roll.....so puke making...so great at the same time
Have you made a video using your POLY 61 KORG yet? That would be an interesting one!
No I haven't. There are quite a lot of good Poly 61 videos already here on youtube and I don't know if I can contribute with something new....but maybe I'll give it a shot when I have the time.
roboticrealm That would be great because I am sure you could come up with something interesting. Like a little tutorial of some of the main parameters. Most people just play stupid chords on it and wiggle the pitch-bend! lol
monsterjazzlicks I've made a little video of the Poly-61 now. No tutorial but a little demo of how it sounds, like all my other videos: th-cam.com/video/37dCPoCA9J8/w-d-xo.html
legend!
Best DX7 IID demo heard so far :-) I really want to get that smooth 'sawtoothpad'sound at 8:00, performance 29. Can you help me with it? Or an idea how it's made/layered? Thanks!
Thank you very much! That's very kind of you to say! I don't have time today to check, but I'll check sometime tomorrow and let you know.
I managed to to check real quick tonight. I'm about to go away in a few minutes so here goes: The sound consists of two patches named *ana.Str. and *Str.ssimo. No Dual detune used. Make sure the pan button is lit. Hope that helps!
roboticrealm Thanks very much! Now i just need to find these patches. It seems that they originally came from the "PA-decoder MONST-ROM" card, which sell on ebay for more than 50euros.
Bob Augustin There are loads and loads of patches for free on the internet for the DX7. Just check Dave Benson's DX7 Page. I think you'll probably find them there. Or check out Thiago Gomes patches here on youtube. He has some really fantastic patches also.
Beautiful mate ! I don't ever remember hearing these sounds on it in the late 80's ?
Thanks! Well, maybe the patches I found on the internet, which I've based my performance patches on, are newer than the ones people created for it during the 80's...I don't know...
The first example and also the moogy type one sound brilliant !
I have a DX7 Mk1 and DX21 I am learning. Would really love a chat some time if you were around (maybe on Skype) ?
monsterjazzlicks The first performance patch was on on the instrument when I bought it and the moogy patch is Paul Mangrus patch that I've only doubled and and done som dual detune on. Mr Mangru is an excellent programmer when it comes to the DX7. Be sure to check out his stuff here on TH-cam.
I don't think I could teach you much about the DX7. It's very hard to program and the only things I'm apparently good at, since people seem to like my video, is to layer two patches on top of each other and make it sound good. With a Mk1 DX7 or a DX21 you can't do that so I probably can't help you there...
Ok man, cheers. I just wanted to chat about a couple of basic fundamental things which are common to all DX's and which are drastically holding me back from getting off the ground here.
monsterjazzlicks One thing I've begun to notice however is that if you take a patch and first check which algorythm it uses, and look at the picture of that algorythm on the synth, the operators at the bottom row are the ones you should begin to edit if you want to change attack, decay, sustain and release. If this is what you want you try and go to these operators in edit mode and change the EG (envelope generator). Which parameter attack, sustain and so forth is, is hard to know, but if you change the values on R1, R2, R3 and so forth you will eventually find attack, sustain etc.
Whoa! I'm really impressed.
I never had my DX7 sound anything like at 06:19 or 07:09.
Would you share a sysex file with those patches?
Hi, I just picked one for $75, but it has lost its factory sounds, and has no cartridge. Any chance I could get a copy of your sysex?
You can get the factory sounds on Dave Benson's DX7 Page. Just google it. You can also download great patches from Thiago Gomes here on youtube.
I decided to put the performance patches on my website. So you can download the sysex files from there.
Thanks!!!
What’s the name of the piece on 2:01 - 3:09 ??
Do you think it would be worth it to get rid of a DX7 mkI to get a II? I got a mkI because I was young and dumb and now I kick myself for not getting a mkII when they were the same price online haha.
Well, I don't know. Perhaps. It all depends on what you're after and what you like. I have a DX7 mkI at work, and I borrowed it and brought it home at one time to compare the two. The mkI sounds a bit dirtier and "lo-fi" than the mkII. Some people think that the mkI therefore sounds better. To me it's much more important to be able to stack two sounds, which you can only do with a mkII. I also like to be able to use the unison mode, which I think is also only available with mkII. With mkI I think you really need effects to make it sound good. MkII can sound good without that, even though it too really shines if you put on effects.
@@roboticrealm I did end up selling the mki and I got a mkii. Well worth it for the stereo outs, split/layering, and the enhanced midi. A small thing I never really saw people talk about is the ability for multiple LFO's, it seems like that's a big source of subtle change in the mkii.
@@emmarossignol4445 Glad you're happy with your Mk II.
Hi, will these patches also work with my DX7 MKI ?
Regards
Well, not really. Performance patches or dual patches, where you layer two patches on top of each other, like I've done in this video, is not possible with a DX7 MKI. However, the basic single patches is still playable on a MKI. This was the whole reason I bought myself a MKII DX7.
Super nice...How many sounds I can store in DX7 II FD or D? Thanks
64 single patches and 32 performance patches.
Amazing sounds! Do you consider this a good choice for a first hard synth?
Well, I'm not sure. It depends on what you're after. If you like the sounds from it then go for it. But if you want a synth with which you can program your own sounds, and really learn how to program a synth from the start, then it's not recommended as a first synth. FM synths are hard to program. I would more consider the Juno 60 or Juno 106 to be a great first synth. They sound very good and are easy to program. Again, it all depends on what you want.
However, it has 16 voice polyphony which is really nice, and the keybed is excellent. The DX7 II always feels very nice and inspiring to play. The same goes for the JX-8P (compared to let's say my XP-50 from the mid -90s that is aweful in that regard). So I would consider the DX7 a musician's instrument more then say if you want to be able to program...
roboticrealm oh! Thank you for the quick answer. I currently own a midi controller (Arturia Minilab mkII) but I’m thinking about a bigger keybed, and I really love the DX7 sounds ❤️
@@ArturJanz If you are to use the DX7 as a midi controller, one thing to think about is that it only sends midi velocity up to 100 instead of 127. Nowadays there are quite a few great sounds for the DX7 to find. It can be a chore to find them amongst all the thousands of sounds there is on the internet but, well I have a few, and you can find other great ones if you search through youtube. Here's a soundset I bought a few years ago: th-cam.com/video/QJ-T4vawTH0/w-d-xo.html
And this is a guy you should check out also if you want DX7 patches: th-cam.com/video/6cUbxB6I-zg/w-d-xo.html
Thank you!
5:20 nice!
There is software for this synth, it is made 100% original! Native Instruments FM7...
Beautiful playing and patches. How can I get them?
Hi great Job!! what cartridge are you using ????
nice...i miss that time. just a synth, just playing, not messing around with so overdosed stuff like today.....
wow great, do you get them from 'Yamaha store'?
At some point, could you please go through the algorithms of some of the patches? I really like the sounds