Project DX9: Part 2 - Can The £24 Synth Load Sounds from Tape?

[@dannybonilla4048]

I cannot overstate how helpful this video was!!! I am SERIOUSLY grateful for you! My DX9 corrupted itself a few days ago and it was sounding exactly like yours in the beginning. I even tried Sysex via MIDI and that was a pain lol. You saved my favorite synth, you absolute HERO! Thank you thank you thank you

[@musictechtuition]

Hey Danny! Thanks for letting me know - glad it's helped you out. I genuinely thought the synth was broken when I bought it because of the sounds it was making - so I guess it was also corrupted memory that was the issue on mine. I've not gone down the sysex route yet precisely because I have lots of painful memories from back in the day with sysex problems and buffer overflows, etc... while tape was a bit funky, it was generally reliable. Thanks again - more DX9 videos coming fairly soon.

[@HOLOCULT]

Sounds amazing bud! Glad you could bring an old gem back from it's certain death!!!

[@madmac66]

Man this takes me back to using FSK to load and store (and sync??) songs on my drum machine ( a boss or alesis) It was black magic then and it still bloody is. Zeros and ones makes more sense. Well done sir

[@lundsweden]

Its the one nobody seems to want. Doesn't mean it's no good though!

[@musictechtuition]

Very true. There's more upcoming on the DX9, including an interesting change to allow it to be much more DX7-like...

[@delscoville]

I actually liked the DX100 and DX9 is, basically, the same FM engine, but with a full size velocity sensitive keyboard.

[@klangkombinat-de]

there is zero velocity on the 2nd Gen 4OP keyboards but via MIDI, and it's not the same FM-Engine, the DX7/9 have the same engine, 100/27/21 don't, just take a look at the preset FM-Ratios of the 2nd Gen.

[@mikedonovan4768]

That T Shirt is hilarious ! Ah the joys of being a 70's child................😂Good job getting those sounds back from "tape".

[@malcolmhodgson7540]

Yeah, very cool.

[@jbluesb3southside]

the dx9? our favorite saying in NYC in the 80s “nearest dumpster please” oh yeh the myth was it had more bite then a 7 “nearest dumpster please

[@Darren-D.C-Cross]

thank you! got mine working cassette. i enjoy your videos as well. very funny. sarcastic fan myself.

[@klangkombinat-de]

the DX9 was my first synth (not for long ;) but I managed to get some nice sounds out of it by dumping DX7 -Sounds into DX9 via DX7Editor on a C64, it would take the data from the first 4OP and dropping the last 2. So with some creative C&P you could actually convert/play some DX7 Sounds on the DX9 and learn a lot about FM too :) but the missing velocity (even over MIDI) was a buzzkill, so I sold it very quick to the girl who became my girlfriend, so actually a win ;). I still have the converted patches somewhere, if anybody is interested, which I doubt , lol

[@musictechtuition]

I'd be interested in the patches if you can send them as a sysex MIDI file or similar? Or audio for the full retro experience!

[@WorksopGimp]

ZX Spectrum tape to tape copying days, miss them 😃

[@musictechtuition]

Yeah, good times, for sure! And then all the copy protection like Lenslok and so on!

[@ThomsenTower]

Of no use to me, but nice to see the results of your determination and patience.👍

[@rubberplant6375]

Presumably the spectrogram will not show much of anything as it will just be sending variable numbers for each parameter. So it should display only differences in those digits, whatever way that works. Nice video.

[@musictechtuition]

I think it's just too short a time resolution for that sort of thing - certainly looking at the waveforms you can clearly see the two tone which are used, but reading on systems such as the ZX Spectrum used, I think they would happen too quickly for the spectrogram to pick up anything truly readable.

[@sophiebride-gq8fn]

Why the D note key is triggered on a DX9 synth ?

[@musictechtuition]

I'm not sure what you mean by that?

[@sophiebride-gq8fn]

​@@musictechtuitionjust what happen to the D key when you press it ?

[@musictechtuition]

@@sophiebride-gq8fn There's an issue with it if you roll over onto a D - that doesn't work when you've pressed a C at the same time. I'm yet to have time to find out why - the D works on its own though. I think that's this particular DX9 rather than a general issue.

[@mgallerno]

Can I convince you to share that voices files. I would love totry and bringmine back to life.

[@musictechtuition]

Of course! They are on the dx9 website page - yamahadx9.com/downloads.html - and you should be good to go from there.

[@PanHoover882]

Had you replaced the internal battery?

[@Wourghk]

He did that last video, yes.

[@harryolive1853]

The DX7 have the ability to copy all the sysex data over midi into the daw an back

[@musictechtuition]

I think the DX9 does as well, but I thought it'd be more fun to try to use the old school method with 'tape'. Generally I've found sysex-only apps more reliable than DAWs to do this, although it was a long time ago that I last tried it on a PC (probably pre-SX days)

[@danielortizdecaracas]

awful crappy sound 😭😦🤮