[sdiy] DX7 Patch Files

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On Apr 18, 2006, at 4:00 PM, Dave Kendall wrote:

> I had an old ATARI program that would generate random DX7 patches.  
> (can't
> remember what it was. Ring any bells anyone?)
> IIRC, it was for the DX MK1, so didn't have the added functions of  
> the II.
> Most generated patches were crap, but once in while you'd get  
> something
> intriguing. Tweak the sounds a bit, and sometimes you'd get magic.

Probably DX-Droid (or DX Android after the Lucasfilm people sent a  
cease and desist warning)

I think it was the one Dr. T sold by Caged Artists that had a good  
concept. It generated patches based on the bank you had loaded. I  
think it had some masks you could also use to generate variations.

Actually how I learned to program the DX was to enter sounds from  
magazines a parameter at a time to another patch with a similar  
algorithm.

I also had a MIDI file player for the Atari that didn't care what  
file you opened with it so I liked to try all sorts of data

About patch generation, the neatest thing I ever used was this third  
party Casio CZ memory cartridge clone. I'm trying to remember what I  
did exactly, probably just change the battery. Anyway I could get it  
to make corrupt patches that gave non numerical values to parameters.  
Most of the time the patches didn't make sounds, but sometimes the  
patches were very abstract and they even had names laced with obscure  
ascii symbols.