Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: MOTM

I used to have a TX816, but programjming it was a bitch. I probably
would have kept it if it would have had knobs. I even toyed with
the idea of building a huge panel with knobs to control all the
parameters.

What I'm suggesting is not a DX7 on a chip. What I'm suggesting is
a single voice DX7 spread across 8 or 10 modules, with the ability
to patch into any point in the algorithm with a control or audio
frequency signal, and the ability to patch (as sort of an insert) in
filters and other processors into the chain. Imagine running that
hard, sterile DX7 sound through a 440 or a 420, not just at the
output, but at any point in the process. Imagine being able to lag
process the frequency control of some operators, but not others in
the same patch.

Now maybe the same thing would be better realized by building fully
analog oscillators capable of through zero FM, and DX7 style
envelope generators. But since the DX7 voices are DCOs and DEGs
anyway, using a digital implementation would seem to be the way to
go.