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TagPass · Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 12:00 am Post subject: DX7 on the Oasys -- I'm psyched!

From the KORG website:

Brandon Daniel

XVampireX · Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 1:13 am Post subject:

Really nice, almost original Smile

Here's one done with the yamaha dx7 on myspace videos...: http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=6850090

This guy looks high though, kinda silly..
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Sina172 · Platinum Member Joined: 29 May 2007 Posts: 1194

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Daz · Retired Joined: 01 Jan 2002 Posts: 10829

Maybe that was rhetorical, but hey ...

bax · Joined: 10 Sep 2005 Posts: 40

@Sina - yeah, I think my SY-99 is finally getting retired now... I am so jazzed to hear what MOD-7 can do with FM+PCM and I bet that it will blow the SY stuff out of the water if you give enough attention to programming it.

I can't see a direct import of SY patches simply because Yamaha holds the copyright to the actual samples used but I would be willing to bet that someone industrious enough could conceivably make a "map" of equivalent samples in the OASYS ROM and build some patches accordingly that came pretty close.

I sure would really like it if someone managed to get a way to do a direct import of SY patches, though!!!!!

Thanks!
bax

ski · Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 5:16 am Post subject:

Sina,

The TX816 and the TX7 shared exactly the same engine as the DX7 and concsequently, the data for a patch from any of those synths is identical to the DX7. And there are thousands of DX7/TX patches floating around, especially on the 'net, so concievably there are thousands of existing patches available which can be ported over into MOD-7. I'm not sure the same can be said for the other synths you listed. And if any of those synths have samples as a basis for sound generation? Fuggedaboudit... Wink

Any kind of conversion routines for those synths would have to (somehow) re-create those samples too... And even as with the DX7 conversion, getting one synth to react authentically to the sysex data of another synth is never as straightforward as you might think!

So hold off on the wishlist and check out MOD-7! Very Happy

The current online demos will give you a taste of what MOD-7 is all about, though they're just the tip of the iceberg! MOD-7 can create the simplest DX7-like lead lines as well as very complex atmospheric washes and hard-edged techno-oriented sounds.

On the complex side of things, one of the patches I created called "Metallic Atmospheres" (not yet demo'd) requires just holding down a few random notes. Then it plays its own random soundscape in a way that's hard to describe, and very unlike anything that the DX7 could ever possibly do. MOD-7 is capable of creating the most vicious analog-style sync patches you've ever heard as well as very gentle "new age"-style pads that you'd swear could only be made with a Combi.

I think you'll like it!

elvisjohndowson · Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 5:51 am Post subject:

I've found a set of DX-7 banks here http://www.thedx7.co.uk/

Elvis Dowson

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