One of the patches that stood out in lots of music was the DX7 Brass. Woody plays through the 32 famous presets from the DX7 on MODX! The FM Converter App on YamahaSynth is a clever cloud-based app the converts DX7, DX7II, TX802 and TX216/816 files to MONTAGE format. A: The initial release of DX Dreams primarily covers the main “flavors” of DX7 sounds - the stuff a DX7 is known for: the iconic “famous” sounds we remember from the 80s (electric pianos, basses, bells, synth sounds and stacks) - but treated and “produced” so they sound the way they did back then. This is Part Two of Exploring the Yamaha DX7, focusing on the individual songs it was used on.You don't need much to control keyboards, but you do need mixers. And C64's were used for cheap midi sequencers by some musicians in the 80s. The 6502 is the same processor that a Commodore 64 used. A pentium is about a hundred times faster than a 486, and a 486 is about 10 times the speed of an 8086, and the Ensoniq Mirages for instance were based on something like a 6502 which are ten times slower than a 8086. I personally am amazed the synths have lasted this long consider the processors in the keyboards from the 80s ran on really slow processors. Its fast enough to play note data but not pitch bend data or other modulation data. MIDI is about 31250 bits per second, or roughly the speed of a modem. Also the midi standard is not fast enough to drive the keyboards in realtime (maybe its improved since I've last used it). Until you've bought keyboards you won't realize this. Especially considering there are CPU's that can simulate mixdown synths. And they're quite cool - an Oberheim Expander( #7365368541) and an EDP Wasp ( #7365373635), amongst others.īTW, for every keyboard you get, there is two inputs on a mixer you need to support that keyboard, if you have 8 keyboards you needa 16 track mixer.

UPDATE: At the other end of the credibility scale, an ebay seller called alunsworth is selling a load of synths from Stock Aitken and Waterman's PWL studios on eBay UK.

There was even a EMS Synthi with a starting bid of £20, but it's already up to £1660. The Vemia Website is still an absolute nightmare to use and navigate (try to ignore the javascript faults and popups), but it's well worth the effort. Other delights include Tim Simenon (Bomb The Bass) selling his 303 and a load of other gear. He's also selling a Prophet VS, Jellinghaus DX-7 Programmer and a couple of Mackie Mixers. Brian Eno is selling off his beloved (and battered) DX-7, which was presumably used to compose the Microsoft Sound, among one or two other pieces of music. It's a kind of cool private eBay for music geeks.

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