Did you run the PC800Fixes channel?

Nice video as always. Gave you a like. Why did the DX7 EG settings need tweaking when moved to the TX802? I thought the TX802 is built upon the DX7 FM architecture. Do you see that porting DX7 to TX802 requires tweaking often?

You're getting into wizardry territory now. 🧙‍♂️

When I read the title I immediately thought of the SY99! Love this!

Very interesdting in depth stuff. Ive had TX7, DX7FD, TG33, TG500, EX5 and CS6X ( the last one left) of Yamaha synths. Used to do some comparissons myself. Thanks!

I love the "harder" sound of the Wurly as opposed to the Rhodes. I had an actual Rhodes for years but didn't realize what the difference was back then. I've never had a real Wurly, but I'm happy to have a good emulation.

I worked in a music shop in the 80s and 90s. The M1 was very popular, Roland didn't make the D70 as a competitor to the M1. That was the Roland D20 that had 8 track sequencer and multi-tamberal with built in drum machine and effects. At the time, yamaha had the B200 and then the V50. Roland also had the W30 which was a sampler workstation.

I’m curious if you know if these would work if loaded into the (4 operator) DX-11. Would like to purchase them, if so.

Very impressive. Thank you! And as all good FM patches it's very dynamic and wider in tone then samples

Always cool with a new video from you, keep em coming 😁

Sensational. Love all your patches.

D70 was a flawed competitor for M1, SY77 was expensive and had fm synthesis the others didn't have, and K1000 was interesting but had no filters and didn't have K250 countored modeling. D70 and K1000 also didn't have sequencers. M1's secret weapon was combi mode. And I find it interesting the M1 drums are used here.

The Roland D-70 is most usable nowadays from the mentioned synths, but unfortunately all D-70s break down, with the keys and buttons. The M-1 loses it on polyphony, piano and strings sounds and the lack of effect sends. The Yamaha loses it on its bad samples and that it doesn't have a combi mode where you can play more than one sound. The Kurzweil loses it on its too warm samples and that it doesn't have effects.

I love my SY99! ❤

I have a D70 and the M1 is far superior. The D70 is way better than people thinks, they problem is the keybed. Just a month ago one key got stuck and this is 2024 already. I have been trough four D70s already and the keybed is a nightmare, no only the glue but the cables are so delicate when opening. It feels that someone in upper management at Roland hated this keyboard.

Why this occurs is the 'through zero' effect of the negative order sidebands. A low fixed frequency carrier essentially creates a 'mirror image' of the modulators input to it, pitch shifted by the 2x value of the fixed carrier frequency. Hence the movement/beating you hear is similar to detuning two identical waveforms. Where this is significantly different is the 'detuning' is constant Hertz, so no matter what pitch/note is played it stays the same, not doubling every octave like traditional detuning. The same constant Hz behavior occurs with the harmonics within the sound, meaning their detuning amount does not increase by the factor of their harmonic order (i.e. the 3rd harmonic would be 3x the Hz offset compared to the fundamental, there 5th harmonic would be 5x etc). This is why the effect of the fixed carrier detuning is more subtle than traditional detuning

Thanks, I enjoyed this. This sort of Patch Generation has been around for a while in some Synths, it's the Nord Lead A1, even the Arturia Polybrute has some form of Patch Genration in the analog world. How it differs though from "Machine Learning" isn't for me to say or understand, but the results are very random...so far anyway.

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Fun bit of trivia: The Kurzweil K250 from 1983 was hyped as using "AI techniques" to generate it's amazing (for it's day) piano sounds. In one sense, it's true but not in any way that involves neural nets. The K250 was a sampler built at a time when memory was horribly, horribly expensive -- and to capture all the nuances & variations of tones of a grand piano in an under 1MB sample set, they employed a BRILLIANT trick. Hire analog synthesizer guru Robert Moog to build a powerful per-voice filter circuit and use software to "train" the modulation of filter parameters to approximate the real tone captured from a real piano with various levels of note velocity, dampening and other expressive characteristics. This technique apparently succeeded. As for neural nets creating amazing DX7 patches? Of course you can. Actually given software & fully MIDI-controlled patch editing, you could very easily build a neural net that can approximate any sound to the best that given synth can provide. Hell, I've created some amazing FM sounds entirely with AI and no synthesizer tools.

A noble ambition, I hope you are successful.

The whole AI thing is just B.S designed to fleece investors of money. Elon Musk just enjoys getting publicity, I wouldn't take him seriously (btw, he believes were living in a simulation, basically we are already part of some program).

so bad

It's a shortcut to succes. It's a real bummer that people are going to lose more braincels in the future now.

Very thought provoking , thanks. AI has crept in at an alarming rate, and just like how the internet trashed many small businesses - AI could end up being the death of practical skills, if we are not careful.

It definitely reduced the output volume, by a lot really! This didn't happen to you?

French horn can be played with various technique to sound from mellow to trumpet-like bright. M1's French horn was just sampled at lower playing velocity and sounds fine to me.

I find my WK 3200 to be very versatile.. for both live and studio applications. The only thing I would change is the stock snare sound - it doesn't fit with what I generally go for. There is probably a way to change this (possibly with an SD card external sound even).. but I don't have much patience for menus. I electronically modified mine by tying into it's internal amplifier.. I now have 1/4" inputs and outputs on the back. So now I can run backing tracks through it's speakers, and play along. Thanks for the video! ps: $65 was a steal

Maybe one solution for delaying the sounds would be to run them through different (digital) mixer channels and delaying one of the channels. I use this technique to create a wider stereo image for mono synths, for instance.

At 4:48 the B0 60 7F (in hexadecimal) is the MIDI command from the DX7 to send the SysEx data. Because the software is a simple recorder, it records that MIDI command that was sent when you pressed the button to tell the DX7 to Send Data. It does this because the DX7 has no way to know it its MIDI is connected to an instrument or recording software on PC. When the DX7 sends SysEX (internal voice data) to another instrument, that instrument needs to know the command first, but for recording it does indeed need to be removed by hand to get only the "raw" SysEx data since not all instruments want the command.

Yes..DX sounds better to me

I'm getting one of these tomorrow! so excited as Ive wanted one for a long time now. question though: This has a built in sequencer yea? can you save any sequences without a floppy? The guy I'm buying this from isn't sure if the floppy drive on the unit still works and he doesn't have any disk to test it with. I really hope it`s possible to save your sequences as that's really the reason why I'm getting this beast

Pretty cool! 🎹🎶

My first synth and I still have it. Some keys don’t work anymore lol but thanks to Dexed and FM synth in NI I’ve been able to use my sounds in my DAW. It’s an amazing synth

Wow...Great work.

I think you've done more patch programming in your last 10 videos than I have in my entire career.

brilliant! been loving your patches for ages. Imagine those shipped with the device lol

I´ve programmed a way better realistic DX harp than the famous preset one ;)

This proves again how powerful FM synthesis is, as well as hard to make good sounds of it :)… and also that DX7 is still relevant today! FM expressiveness with aftertouch and BC is just unbelievable and in some cases comes close to VL. Thank you for your great work on FM! 👍

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Your guitar patches in a previous video blew my mind. Thru some distortion it prob gets pretty close. Thanks for bringing DX7 into the future!

Late, but I'd like to recommend everything from Clock DVA. Not saying the above mentioned themes were already discussed in all aspects but maybe you can find some inspiration in Adi Newton's work.

In his other career Katz seems to be responsible for an awful lot of factory presets.

lol now I get the 50 in V50. It's the quick edit function that let's you select multiple parameters on one display site to change them at once. That's exactly borrowed from Roland's D50 who afair was the first with this feature. It was even better there as you could use the joystick. The V50 is really special for a Yamaha.

I had my mind blown by a local metal band using one of these to EXCELLENT effect. They were using it for pads/strings/comps and it sounded surprisingly thick and present, and cut well through their mix

I've owned my Sy35 from new for about 30 years now. I never grasped the programming but still love it.

I have Casio WK3000, I think it only differs from the WK3200, in its outputs.

The Matrix is one thing but wait until you are completely red pilled on the JQ! Then your mind will expode and you will start to notice patterns in EVERYTHING, that point to the same group of internationally unwanted people. Many of us discovered this many years ago, and the web runs deep.

I love these keyboards that have the MIDI standard for drums ready to be sequenced with drum machines. I have the Yamaha PSS-A50 that has MIDI through USB; I to plug it into a USB MIDI Host and connect the MIDI in to the RD-9 MIDI out and I can do the same trick you showed in the video. Its great for when you want to have acoustic drum samples layered with analog punchy drums.

At 20:22 you show a screen from the SY99 with some program called 'SY77 Multi Voice'. The SY77 itself was as limited as the M1.

Would love one of these for my SY77