Published on Jul 11, 2016 Power DX7
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About the Yamaha DX7 FM Synthesizer
About This Video
All Yamaha DX7 sounds featured in this video are my original patches, created using the Yamaha DX7 Mk1 front LCD screen.
Featured Yamaha DX7 Patches
1. Filter Sweep - Like Patch
Even without a digital filter, the DX7 can produce an unique filter-like sound. A similar sound is used for my DX7 analog patches demo, Van Halen 1984.
2. Powerful Synth Brass
Uniquely the Yamaha DX7 sound, it's a powerful sound with a natural flanging effect. The same sound is used for my DX7 analog patches demo, U.K. Alaska.
3. Warm & Soft Pad
An amazingly analog-like warm pad sound, you'll never guess that it's actually coming out from the Yamaha DX7 FM synthesis engine! It has a beautiful natural chorusing effect, and adding external chorus and reverb effects makes it a magic.
4. Resonant Filter - Like Bass
Again even without a digital filter, the DX7 can produce a bass sound with a filter - like effect. It has this 'sticky' sound, typical of an analog resonant filter.
5. 80's Sampler - Like String Pad
With an amazingly realistic string sound, the DX7 can produce a string sound that resemble those 1980's sampler based string sounds.
6. Amazing Acoustic Piano
This Yamaha DX7 Piano patch can produce realistic, harmonic - rich metallic sound at lower notes.
7. Breathtaking Male Choir
With breathtaking sonic quality and realism, the DX7 is showcasing its true capability, emulating a realistic male choir sound. This breathtaking sound can rival modern hybrid synths.
8. Breathtaking Female Opera
With breathtaking sonic quality and realism, the DX7 is showcasing its true capability, emulating a realistic female opera sound. These breathtaking sounds can rival modern hybrid synths.
Power DX7 Intro Song
All original DX7 patches with amazing sonic quality, realism and expression - Piano (High and Low notes), Male Choir, Female Opera and DX7 Brass'
The DX7 II Centennial and TX816 Rack
Well the album I was collecting the patches in preparation for is now complete, so here is the Google Drive link to my three patch banks. They are organized by patch type. Bank 1 is electric piano and bell sounds (the DX7's calling card). Bank 2 is plucks, basses, and brass. Turbo vac 800 dual action user manual. Bank 3 is strings, pads, and everything else that didn't fit any of. EDIT: Some of the classic/familiar DX7 sounds were the presets on the DX7 mkii. Since you are using FM8 you should try to get a hold of the DX7ii presets as well. Most famous patch = 'Super Bass'. For instance you will find the classic ePiano and DX bass patches croping up. Yamaha Reface DX. The Reface DX is a modern FM synth that takes lots of inspiration from the classic Yamaha DX7. It's a 4-operator FM synth with onboard effects and a phrase looper. It also includes built in speakers and can be battery powered, for bringing your sounds on the go in a compact form factor. Uploaded on Nov 07, 2015 (and last updated on Dec 26, 2015) Taken from Dave Benson DX7 page. These are system exclusive files, each containing one bank of 32 voices. These are complete with sysex headers. The original factory patches are here as rom1a.syx - rom4b.syx. Oppa gangnam style original mp3 song free download. The Yamaha DX7 voice data format is compatible with any other 6op FM synthesizer from the same period such as the TX7 and some of the later ones such as the DX7II, TX802. 4op voices can be easily reproduced as well. Download Yamaha DX7 sysex patches, then before sending them over MIDI from your computer, set your synth as follows.
'This is a Power DX7 Channel Promotional Video with a selection of my very best Yamaha DX7 Patches.About Power DX7
I have owned my Yamaha DX7 Mk I since 1986 and making my own original DX7 patches ever since. My focus is to push the DX7 (and other FM synthesizers including DX7s, DX7II, TX802) to its limits to create many original patches with breathtaking sonic quality, realism and expression, from warm analog synthesizer sounds to uniquely DX7 piano, brass, string voice, etc.
About the Yamaha DX7 FM Synthesizer
Famous Dx7 Patches
Introduced in 1983, the Yamaha DX7 is the one of the best ‘pure’ synthesizer which has a very powerful FM synthesis engine. Even without sampled waveforms or a digital filter, it can produce amazing sounds from analog-like bass and pads, to breathtaking human voices, strings, pianos etc.About This Video
All Yamaha DX7 sounds featured in this video are my original patches, created using the Yamaha DX7 Mk1 front LCD screen.
Featured Yamaha DX7 Patches
1. Filter Sweep - Like Patch
Even without a digital filter, the DX7 can produce an unique filter-like sound. A similar sound is used for my DX7 analog patches demo, Van Halen 1984.
2. Powerful Synth Brass
Uniquely the Yamaha DX7 sound, it's a powerful sound with a natural flanging effect. The same sound is used for my DX7 analog patches demo, U.K. Alaska.
3. Warm & Soft Pad
An amazingly analog-like warm pad sound, you'll never guess that it's actually coming out from the Yamaha DX7 FM synthesis engine! It has a beautiful natural chorusing effect, and adding external chorus and reverb effects makes it a magic.
4. Resonant Filter - Like Bass
Again even without a digital filter, the DX7 can produce a bass sound with a filter - like effect. It has this 'sticky' sound, typical of an analog resonant filter.
5. 80's Sampler - Like String Pad
With an amazingly realistic string sound, the DX7 can produce a string sound that resemble those 1980's sampler based string sounds.
6. Amazing Acoustic Piano
This Yamaha DX7 Piano patch can produce realistic, harmonic - rich metallic sound at lower notes.
7. Breathtaking Male Choir
With breathtaking sonic quality and realism, the DX7 is showcasing its true capability, emulating a realistic male choir sound. This breathtaking sound can rival modern hybrid synths.
8. Breathtaking Female Opera
With breathtaking sonic quality and realism, the DX7 is showcasing its true capability, emulating a realistic female opera sound. These breathtaking sounds can rival modern hybrid synths.
Power DX7 Intro Song
Original Dx7 Patches
All original DX7 patches with amazing sonic quality, realism and expression - Piano (High and Low notes), Male Choir, Female Opera and DX7 Brass'
Released by Yamaha in 1983, the DX7 is another one of those landmark synthesizers in the history of electronic instruments. Until the DX7 burst on the music scene, most synthesizers were all analog based. The great jazz trio at the village vanguard rarest. The DX was the first commercially successful digital synths. And boy was it every successful! Every keyboard player from guys playing in their garage to the biggest names in the music business bought one and before it was discontinued in the late 80's, the DX became one of the biggest selling synths of all time.
Of course, besides the affordable price, what made it so popular were the sounds that you could produce on one. It's digital FM synthesis was able to create a wide range of new sounds that you just were not able to produce on a analog synth. The DX is widely known for it's great rhodes electric pianos, bells, killer synth basses (the 'lately bass' being especially popular) and metalic type synth sounds.
The original DX7 was also one of the first synthesizers to have MIDI (musical instrument digital interface) included. It was released the same year as the MIDI spec and as a result has incomplete support for the standard: It only transmits information on MIDI channel 1, has no OMNI support for sending and receiving on all midi channels and will not send velocity data beyond value 100. Yamaha fixed all the midi problems and continued to make improvements with the updated DX7-II models that were released throughout the 80's. These included the DX7-IID, DX7-S and DX7-IIFD, which included a built in floppy drive and the TX802 which was a DX7-II in a rack with 8 outputs. The TX816 had eight DX7s in a rack mount, with individual MIDI ports and balanced outputs for each module.
In 1988, in celebration of the company's 100-year anniversary, Yamaha released the DX7 II Centennial. It was a DX7 II FD with a silver case, gold painted buttons and sliders, and 76 glow-in-the-dark keys. Only 100 were made and were priced at US$3995. Definitely a sort after collectors item for synth junkies. Finally, nearly twenty years after it's release Native Instruments released FM7, which is a software version of the DX. This IMO is one of the few software synths which actually sounds as good if not better then the original and well worth picking up if your interested in FM synthesis and the type of sounds that can be created with it.
The DX7 II Centennial and TX816 Rack
Being that the DX had no sliders, switches and knobs like a typical analog synthesizer, it was very difficult to program. FM synthesis was also a much different concept in creating sound using sound operators, modulators and carriers which also made it difficult to work with. Fortunately, several programmers (including us) took the time to learn how to create sounds in this new format and a wide range of sounds soon became available for the DX. Several talented programmers also released computer editors and librarians for the DX which let you program new sounds using your computer. These were popular with computer systems like the Commodore-64 and Atari which were the mainstream computers at the time for running music applications. The company 'Grey Matter Response' also released the 'E' expansion board, which boosted the DX's memory and added a sequencer.
Shortly after the DX was released, we bought one and started to learn how to program sounds for this amazing new synth. Throughout the 80's we owned pretty much every type of DX7 that was released and slowly assembled a large library of DX7 sounds. Our collection now has over 1000 programs included and is compatible with all the DX7 models. The sounds are available in system exclusive (.syx) or standard midi files (.mid) and can be downloaded from our web site when you order our free e-mail delivery. We provide the software with your order that lets you load in the sounds. All you need is a midi interface to be able to connect your computer to the DX. We also have a collection available in DX7-2FD format that we can send you on a floppy disk that you can load directly from the DX's floppy drive if you not set up to load in sounds via midi. Note: The DX7-2FD floppy disk library is set up differently and contains 18 banks of patches. Sorry, but the sounds are not available on the old DX7 cartridges.