Your own Yamaha DX7 for free | Dexed VST demo & tutorial
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ธ.ค. 2016
- In this video I will reveal to you how to get the sounds of the Yamaha DX7 for free as we demo the Dexed VST plugin and do a tutorial on how to setup and load DX7 soundbanks downloaded from the internet.
Links:
Dexed: asb2m10.github.io/dexed/
Savihost: www.hermannseib.com/english/sa...
Reaper: www.reaper.fm/
Valhalla DSP: valhalladsp.com/ - เพลง
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Bless your heart this was the exact thing I needed to push my synthwave into the next level
Wow., Thanks Woody. Having a long hands-on association with the DX7 as both a musician and technician I was admittedly skeptical. But having tried it out I can recommend DEXED on three points -
1) The SOUND is very good.
2) Editor features - FM will never be intuitive but being able to see all the parameters on screen at once and (this is the best) see graphical representations of the envelops and operator levels IN REAL TIME as the sound plays not only aids editing but is a welcome training aid for how FM works.
3) The sound library included contains many libraries I have only read about in old magazines - plus many I haven't even heard of - plus all the factory sets of all the DX7/5/1/II family - and is very well curated.
The only real fault I discovered in several hours of playing is that envelope retrigger and key priority doesn't behave the same as the actual DX7 when DEXED is put in Mono mode. There is a clicking noise when playing legato. Since I have an real DX7 in great shape, will it replace the original - no but it fills a huge need for a patch editor/librarian on Mac and I'll also use it for +n more DX7 patches in my tracks when 1 isn't enough.
Thanks again for sharing.
excellent and insightful comment, thanks. you have dug into the details more than I have. i'll pin your comment as I am sure others willl find it interesting.
kholt420 Does this VST address Yamaha’s MIDI volume screw up, where they went 0-100 on the DX7 instead of 0-127?
@@WoodyPianoShack i really like this video but i have a question not directly related to it...i wonder if there is a way to see front panel of the keyboard like yamaha djx (that has no any lights of it's own) while playing in low light conditions...some kind of DIY trick?
You’re are really becoming one of my favorite youtubbers. After 50 years of mostly guitar @ 60 I’m learning piano. That and well electric piano/synth is how I found you. You’re funny & entertaining (you remind me of Graham Kerr “The Galloping Gourmet”) this and a couple other DX7 videos wow I love them. I even had one 30 or so years ago. And Reaper is my DAW of choice.
YOU ARE AWESOME WOODY! Thanks for hooking us up with this rad synth and killer library!
Thank you for introducing SAVIHOST. It's super convenient for just testing the VSTs i've downloaded. Love your channel!
Absolutely awesome for me to discover this in 2022. Learning keyboard and piano late in life, I therefore didn't know the hardware history of the keyboard sounds that I love from the 80's. I wasted so much time on modern synths and vst collections, then here are thousands of 80's sounds I want to play all in this incredible free VST. Thanks Woody.
I was searching for some retro (warm and funky!) tones for some original songs I'm working on with an artist I produce... and I came across your video - followed the instructions and wammo...!! what a fab bunch of stuff I have to play with.. Thanks so much for posting this!
the DX7 was a Heavenly machine ! the Dexed brings back ALL the Glory of this legendary synthesizer. The Legend DX piano still remains an intriguing electric piano in my collection. In 20 years I have NOT found ANYTHING (any Electric Piano) that sounds as good as the DX Legend E. Piano. It's so wonderful to see a video from someone who has a great taste in his selection of Sounds !
Thanks Woody! Yeah I too was a child of the 70/80s, and did covers in clubs with my DX7 sitting above my Jupiter 80. Recently I've been toying with making space in my analog mixer and plugging in my old Yamaha TG77 6op sound module and re-living the past, but with Dexed it sounds just as good as my original DX7, so looks like my TG77 will continue to function as a rack panel lol. Boy add the Chor-X and Valhalla Vintage Verb plugins to Dexed, pull up some of those Rhodes from the cart link you posted, and your there back in the 80's with Peter Cetera, Chic Correa, Steve Pocaro and David Paich all over again! I love it! 👍
Thanks very much for this.I had a Dx7 S back in the day and this is a trip down memory lane.Thank you.
I love the Dexed plugin, I've been using that plugin on all my music for a couple of years now, because I do a lot of 80's style/inspired music so you gotta have a DX in there :). Nice to see others starting to use it now! Great review as always.
yes, there's something about the clean & simple dx7 patches that make them work rather well in a mix. especially for the style of music you mention. which i enjoyed listening to. :)
Great video! It really helped me to unravel the mysteries of getting Dexed imported for use into Sonar X3. Thanks, and keep up the great work!
hey paul, awesome to hear, thx for the fdback
Thank you for explaining the process of setting up the midi device so thoroughly, it was very helpful.
im honestly shocked on how accurate DEXED can be and the fact that its free. its AMAZING!
THANK YOU!!!! I HAD DEXED SINCE SOME MONTHS AND I NEVER USED IT BECAUSE I DONT KNOW SOUND DESIGN AND THOUGHT IT ONLY HAD THE 32 FIRST PRESETS...NO KNEW ABOUT THE CART PART!!! SO WITH THE ORIGINAL PRESETS AND THE ONE I DOWNLOADED THEM NOW I HAVE A TON OF NEW SOUNDS TO EXPLORE!!! GAME CHANGER!
Thanks for the guide Woody, wouldn't have figured it out without the video.
Thanks Woody this is a beautiful thing. I am really enjoying Dexed here on my M audio midi controller and reaper. Very very nice sounds. I am trying to recreate some of the stuff you have been showing us and it sounds identical. Perfect.
I recommended Dexed when I taught FM at university. Free, and easy to use. I also use it myself to program and manage patches. I CAN program my DX7, but it's a tedious task. And like you say, it's a great alternative to the hardware and sounds spot on!
Can I store patches from dexed into my DX7's internal memory or memory cartridge? My sounds were wiped out when the internal battery died. I'm going to replace it, and then attempt to load some sound patches back onto my DX7. Thanks
I very appreciate DEXED! I've always used HEXTER as my main DX7 sim but DEXED inspired my a lot!
thanks, I really appreciate the step by step instructions, I have got it working and now composing new tunes!
I have had this free plug for agers, how did I miss those great patches for FREE also. THANK YOU sir.
Oh amazing this can be used as a standalone! Nice one, mate.
I had only got it today and opened it in FL.
I found your channel 3 months ago and you somehow convinced me that FM is freaking awesome. At this point, I've got a Casio CZ-3000 and the Dexed VST so I can do both FM and Phase Distortion sounds on top of my traditional synths.
way to go! i lusted after cz3000 and 5000 when i was a nipper, but could only stretch to a used 1000.
Woody Piano Shack I found mine for $100 in pretty good shape. The boys selling it said they'd had it forever and wanted to buy a 'real synthesizer' 🙄
Would the CZ-1 be most wanted over the 3000 and 5000?
Holy moly. Thank you SO much for this dude. Huge thumbs up and subscribe.
Excellent video . Im very glad you included the use of the Savihost in your vid as i keep forgetting how to use mine, so a very useful reference . I like the fact that you can use dxed as a midi control interface for the Dx7/Dx7 mk 2 aswell .
thanks for the tip, i didn't realise at the time that you could use it to bulk load preset banks also.
Woody Piano Shack Your welcome and yes its a badass sysex utility aswell . I occasionly use it on my Dx7 Mk2.
I can't thank you enough! I've wanted a DX7 since the 80s and now I kind of have one! Kind of!
yeah it's kind of close enough for me too!
thanks for this wonderful tutorial! i never quite knew how to load in own banks, but now i know!
Dexed is great. It helped me understand how to edit my actual DX-7S. Though it doesn't help with the performance patches. Dexed has lots of knob options for controllers...lots of fun and great sound..and especially thanks to whomever created the BigMomma .syx files.
Dexed 0.9.4 released March 2018. EG timings fixed which improves the DX7 emulation out of sight. The DX7 had a ~14 khz filter to fix the DAC noise, Dexed still need a 15k LP filter after it in MKI mode, not required in 24 bit mode.
*_It now also includes a stand alone exe in all platforms!!_*
I was about to ask why I didn't need to use SaviHost haha.
Hi Woody, thanks for this video (and others). I own a battered old DX100 but the power socket has broken away from the circuit board so needs fixing. But seeing this VST I may not need to. I love the DX series synths and took mine to use in Music Technology workshops I helped teach and the reactions when folks recognised the famous sounds of the hits was awesome! Thanks again.
The end was fukkn lovely. I think Dexxed is a pretty underrated synth. Def will grab my copy. Thanks for the cool video bro
thanks for the comment, cheers!
So... After messing about with this for a while, I went out and bought a very well preserved DX7 MK1. :) A real pleasure to play. Cheers.
congrats richard, how did you react to the sound of the dx7 after being used to dexed?
I built a patch bank from the thousands available (not factory). Pads, Strings and Brass. A few of the pads did not translate well. Volume velocity issues. Perhaps global settings.... It was a real pleasure to find that the factory patches improved over what came installed, as I assume the previous owner had tweaked the parameters to the point of fuzz and click on a few of the more complex patches. All is well now! I really like the action and after touch. Although not an ideal midi controller, I like using it as such.
Check the settings in Dexed. There's a modern and a Mark 1 mode. The Mark 1 DX7 (brown case model like you see Woody with in this video) came out before MIDI standards had been implemented. Velocity only goes to 100 on the DX7, as opposed to 127. That's why your velocity was off and why some of the sounds were fuzzy. Sounds like the volume of the operators was too high, causing the fuzz. Quirky machine, the DX7!
Thanks for that. I will look for the feature when I flash the DX7 next. Cheers.
@@ChannelofRichPierik I have a real DX7 and dexed, what do I need to connect my dx7 to dexed to control the keyboard and load patches into it?
I was using operator in Ableton Live for a long time, but after looking for a good timpani patch (I can't program an fm synth for the life of me) just discovered this last night, WOwooooww! What a cool synth. I really like the interface as well. Found a bunch of presets as well.
great! there are more presets that you will ever need. operator sounds amazing too.
This is a great video. Thanks for posting it. Because of "shelter in place," I have loads of time to kill.
I love your screen stand.
Another great video woody!
Thanks a lot for this. It made the whole process a lot less infuriating
I saw you use this in your video where you kept 3 synths and sold off the rest. (That might have been the comparison video, I've seen quite a few of yours recently) I really couldn't understand how you could let the DX7 mk1 go, now I think I see the reasoning behind it. Smart thinking Woody. Oh and thank you. I've just downloaded this and the brass 5 (dx7 rom cartridge 2 a) I think it is. is just like I remember on so many of the old 80's 12' Singles I have. 'Great' doesn't quite cover it. Thank you very much again for this!
glad we saw eye-to-eye in the end, i like a happy ending :)
Indeed :)
I have this but I never used it, I might give it a second look now. Thank you!
Thank you very much :) What a free Plugin, it´s a whole Library of Sounds and the DX7 within. I like it. AND FOR FREE!!!
hey you had my same stand alone sound card the old delta 1010 using it for years! thanks man
Best vst plugin...sound is amazing real and like tru analog. Thx for this video.
Thanks Woody!!!!
I’m an original 80’s DX7 owner & 2 TX7’s. Looking forward to trying this VST, & hoping to shrink my Hardware footprint.
I wrote a DX7 librarian for the Apple II. Old school stuff, but fast.
that is very cool, a commercial librarian or just a hobby?
Woody Piano Shack Hey Woody,
No I’m not a commercial librarian developer, but an engineer, retired from Raytheon now. I got my first Apple II sometime around 1980, and my DX7 the first year they came out. Still have it. They hold up amazingly good!!!! Still plays like new. Only the rechargeable battery needs replacing. It lasted 25yrs!!!
I bought a MIDI 8 board for my Apple II , and the LADs assembly language developer, and went to town. Pretty easy to write code for a CPU that had only 56 commands. The Apple II runs at only 1MHz, but a pgm written in machine language runs instantly!
My program just loaded & saved the entire sysEx or patches. No editing. It was extremely valuable since the DX7 only stores 32 patches at a time. A floppy could hold several hundred patches, and the load was almost instant off the floppy. I sold the pgm in Keyboard mag back then, but it’s a freebie these days.
Other keys i own are, Minimoogs, Moog Sonic 6, Juno-60, ARP Omni, U20, S50, XP-80’s, Yamaha & Alesis Keytars, and more recently a Casio 350. Have several sound modules for too, TX7’s, U220’s, and a S550. Oh and still have a CP-70.
I no longer have any Hammonds or MelloTrons. 😩.
I’m 64 and want to keep going, so I’m trying to reduce my Hardware footprint. So far I’m finding great VST’s of all the old keyboards, but alas, what always suffers is not having the knobs... the original control surface. (I think that’s what the millennial call the panels on our old keyboards.)
Good hearing from you!
Edit: Forgot, my Apple pgm had other features for real-time playing. The DX7 only had 16note polyphony, so my pgm could read the notes your playing and send them back an octave up typically. I did put in the option to select any interval. Anyway, that made thin patches sound huge! That’s great with a multi keyboard setup where you typically might have only one hand on the DX7. (Kind of miss those days)
One other feature was to read all your notes and the pgm gave you the appropriate bass note. That was absolutely valuable for playing full string patches live.
wonderful tutorial!
Great video! Lately I got a TX-7, the module version of the DX-7 so I can play my weighted keyboard, I am totally in love with it and like you I am using this program to load patches via midi. Dexed is totally awesome. I find it peculiar that I hear everybody pronounce Dexed as sounding like: 'that said', I always pronounce it like sounding as 'The Exed', more like DX. Anybody?
Hey Man, thank a lot, I am from India and I have been looking for yamaha DX7 but either it's too much costly or the shipping charges are too high, anyhow my pursuit of getting one will continue but still this is something which is close to Yamaha DX7 and we can still enjoy in meantime.
very well explained 👍👌🤗 Thank you for your work
Great work woody 👍
Excellent video works
I love dexed! Nice Video
Wow, sort of makes me wish I still had a DX7 to send some of these sounds to. But still nice to use the VST, or to just play these sound banks from my Motif.
This video is AWESOME!!!! Just wanted to mention that in the new version you don't have to use the Savihost (Using DLL & rename Savihost.exe to Dexed,exe)
thanks, are you saying that dexed runs standalone these days?
@@WoodyPianoShack Yes, I was surprised when I downloaded it and run it. It installed as Dexed.exe and no dll. It's version 0.9.5. Runs great.
Excellent video thanks
Omg woody! What's the secret of you Scandinavian people? Your English is just incredibly awesome!!
what the?! i'm english, but live over here... :)
I've had great pleasure and joy from your channel. Especially this killer tip about Dexed. Great stuff! However, I'm looking into buying a DX7 mk1 ASAP - my nostalgia just won't take no for an answer. You don't happen to know anyone desperate to get rid of theirs in the Sthlm region, do you? :) Thanks for all your great work!
great decision! hit me up on my email (check about page). i might be able to help you.
Wonderful...70s synth fan here marveling at all to digital wonders! BTW I think its pronounced 'Dee X'ed'
Big thanks Woody!
I love the TEASING little interface, - conveniently ready for a REAL DX7 ...(brb, just checking ebay)... I need one of these vst's for my TG-55 RACK MOUNT...
Thanks sir you save my money
thanks so much for this
Ok here's another one then. The free OBXD VST versus the OB8 or OBXa. I know that there's a whole horde of synthgeeks who's heads will explode at this but I just saw a vintage OBXa for $6,000 +$225 shipping and I find the OBXD with a bit of reverb/chorus comes mighty close, and I speak as a 62 year old guy who used to own one (why did I ever sell it, (sob)).
I totally agree with you. The differences are so tiny that the huge price tag for hardware is totally unjustifiable. But you know, collectors, right? ;-)
Thank you for your help.Godblesse you
Thanks a lot !!
thank you sir!!!
Thanks for the vid
Thanks alot,. my friend.
Already own one. .had two!
Woody Thanks For Sharing this information
And DEXED is FREE?? Wauw! Awesome!! :-D
Ok cool i was able to load the expansion presets i have like over 1300 banks for dexed just wasnt sure how to load i copied it to the cart directory n worked just fine thanks
Dexed is my choice for playing live my Synthwave songs.
thankk youuu so much!
Sweet!
Thanks a lot
I often wondered what all the songs I like from the 80's and 90's had in common. One day I discovered that perhaps, just maybe, possibly... Could be the instruments?... Then I found it... The DX7! SO, I went in search across the world looking for a DX7, talking to many people in hope of finding this musical machine of pure beauty. I was advised strongly to source an SY77, as this was described as a DX7 on roids. I found an SY99 and settled with that, with no complaints other than a black key that is down all of the time, and a display that sometimes doesn't work (power off and back on fixes it). I'll get round to fixing that later... But, what I really wanted was the DX7 library sets to load in and have some fun. I had already got a copy of the Dexed dll loaded into fruity loops studio, but the midi controller I had was just abysmal, so I forgot about it. Your video kicked me into getting my USB to midi cable into my SY99, downloading the patches, and.... Wow. This is as close to a DX7 as you can really get. I was waiting on a floppy drive turning up from ebay to load in some that I found online, but this is just special. You have 32 patches per cartridge, and so many to play with. I can hear so many songs with each one. Like that harp sound (DBLHARP) from bronski beat. Just add some chorus and there it is.
Just amazing.
Not to mention the Korg M1 piano and organ presets used in most 90s songs
thanks mate
If i may ask what's the name of the cartridge patch of the outro, is it from the downloaded bank or you made it yourself. it sounds very beautiful
i got it just now! dont need a host it works with 0ut 0ne in reaper and it also works stand alone could be case a host needed 5 years ago l0l ty
Thanks
Gracias!!!
thanks you for the info, in the end in the demo you play preset named "BRASS 5" it sounds totally different on my side and also how do you get that stereo width ? mine is totally tiny sound like mono in the middle.
Hi Woody,
Can these patches use the modulation and pitch bend if your keyboard supports it?
I got this all to work on my laptop, output into an old Roberts Sound53 CD/DAB Radio, very basic Yamaha PSR-195 keyboard as the midi input.
I should point out that the PSR-195 does not support key velocity, aftertouch and most other useful things - only a sustain peddle - which I don't have - yet.
But, like you say, you do need to reverb plugin to give the instrument some life, otherwise the sound is quite flat.
So I was really pleased I could get it all working.
Just need to be better at playing the keyboard - one hand on single notes is OK, one hand on simple cords is hard work, two hands seems almost impossible (had some practice with Tones and I - Dance Monkey and Tears for Fears - Head over heels).
I have been looking at getting a Yamaha MODX 7, but I am a bit cautious as I bought a used Roland FA-08 in mint condition from a shop, a few months ago. Beautiful quality keyboard, very heavy, very large - in fact, too large to put anywhere. But what I could not cope with was the weighted action keyboard - too heavy an action for synth instruments and I had to return it to the shop.
So you can use the Yamaha website to convert and install these very same patches onto the MODX/Montage as shown in one of your other videos - so MODX is the way forward to the past....
Anyway, thank you for the great tutorial!
great vid man, didnt know all those presets existed with dexed, was about to buy dx7 v but, this will do nicely, do you know if borderline and live to tell by madonna used the yamaha dx7 or not?.
You can play shape of you with "Thumbpick2", it sounds very close.
Thanks for the video. So, every time I want to play a vst, I have to rename the SaviHost file?
Supracool Vid - FMLife
i played a dx7 vst and a sampled dx7. They sounds great and almost real.. but if you have it side by side and compare it, 😀 you will hear the real dx7 is warmer. And sounds better
This is absolutely fantastic! I'm getting myself an iRig Keys Pro or maybe the mini keys version tomorrow for £80. So, for £80 I get something better than the Yamaha Reface costing 4 times as much!!! What polyphony does this patch engine give you? Thanks also for such a clear explanation without which I wouldn't even attempt to do this! 😎👍
glad to hear you got some value from the vid, the plugin is lightweight you can play dozens of notes, more than the original dx7. the reface has less poly than the dx7, which mean i won't be buying one soon. good luck!
Hey can you help me? The zip folders have completely different contents for me, and also the Savihost file wont do what you indicated. It gives me instructions to do what I've been trying to do.
Do breath control or aftertouch (channel pressure) work?
I see settings for breath, but they don't seem to work. I can't find any proper documentation, just a very long forum thread about it, and all I can find in there is a statement from a couple of years ago that they're not supported yet. Is that as far as it got?
I can't get them to work, but these things can be mysterious. Knowing whether or not it's meant to, would be a good start.
This great but confusing for a first timer as it seems Dexed is now a stand-alone version. Is there any way of making the tiny UI any larger and given my USB keyboard is shown as "Digital Piano" in the Active MIDI Inputs, I wonder why it refuses to trigger Dexed? (which works fine using the on-screen keyboard)
If you get an error running savihost, along the lines of "refused to start... side by side configuration incorrect", the solution (for me) was to download and install the Visual C++ 2008 x64 linked to on the (hermanseib) savihost page.
Thanks man!
Hi Woody, and thanks so much for posting this. I'm wondering if you can give me further guidance. I tried using this plugin in my DAW (Cakewalk Sonar X3) and it plays well but does not record well, and I'd really love to use it in my recordings. What happens is, if I'm playing a chord, one (or more) of the notes in the chord will sustain indefinitely. This creates a mess that is not pleasing. Do you know how I can overcome this to have all of the notes cut off when I want them to (iow, the way I play them)? If you can't help, could you direct me to someone who could (tech support)? I know this is a freebie and you can't demand much from a freebie, but I'd really appreciate any help, if possible. Thanks
Hey Woody....why would you need the keyboard option for Savihost? or not?
what do you recommend for midi keyboard? will any will work with the dexed?
Are there somewhere DX7 Patches that equal the presets of the PSR36 and PSS480/680/780 range of Yamaha keyboards? The DX7 is certainly able to recreate any of them, unlike me :/
Can dexed be fully midi-mapped to a hardware fader/knob controller (e.g."federfox PC12")?
Can these patches be saved to the DX7's internal memory or memory cartridge after you load them in dexed?
Woody can these sounds be loaded into a dx7iifd from dexed