[sdiy] fare thee well DX7

[Dave Kendall]

FWIW, my DX7II sounds very different to the Fs1r, a later Yamaha hardware FM
synth when playing identical patches (you can upload from DX7 to Fs1r). the
DX7 sounds a lot better actually - don't know why.....


Dave



on 15/4/06 20:00, Seb Francis at seb at burnit.co.uk wrote:

> Samppa Tolvanen wrote:
>> On 4/15/06, Seb Francis <seb at burnit.co.uk> wrote:
>> 
>>> I'm pretty sure the FM7 won't save it's patches as SysEx (only the other
>>> way round) - at least I can't see a way to do it.
>>> 
>>> But why would you want to use a DX7 anyway if you had FM7?  Doesn't the
>>> DX7 create it's sounds digitally?  So what's the advantage in having a
>>> bulky bit of hardware with a horrible editing interface when you can
>>> just use the FM7.
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> Could it be equally horrible DACs and true analogue noisy OPAMPs?
>> 
>> 
> You're right :)
> Ok, so you'd have to run the FM7 through a bit-reduction / digital
> non-linearity type plugin, then mix in a bit of hiss ...
> 
> Seb
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