![]() ![]() There are 36 patches for both synths in Vision de la cité interdite. However, the main issue is somewhere else: each DX7 patch has about 120 parameters (not counting the global "Function" parameters, but only the actually patch settings). 39 was unreachable, and so were quite a few numbers. What's worse, some numbers it would simply not take and jump for example from 38 to 40. Unfortunately the DX7 Librarian is a bit fiddly to use: one cannot just type numbers but everything has to be done with the mouse and the sliders are rather small. Plus since it is bit-for-bit accurate, you can play the 6-op patch banks from the original Yamaha DX line and their SysEx bank file support and even full hardware SysEx interfacing.Alright, so I chose to do the patches with the DX7 Librarian, because FM8 uses a completely different terminology (for example using real time units instead of the DX7's 0-99 steps). Multi-layer system as seen in the ultra-luxury DX1 and DX5.The crunch original DAC (the ‘A’ in DAC of course being analog, too…).The original synth has a filter at 16khz but different modeled keyboards have slight variations.”) Full analog filtering emulation (since this portion of the Yamaha FM line’s output stage was in fact analog – from the manual “Filtering: Selects the output filter being emulated.“Identical operator math for each algorithm down to the bit”.Note-to-note variations in envelope stepping patterns.So the Chipsynth OPS7 has stuff that other FM plug-ins largely ignored: We’re no longer afraid of the algorithms inside, and we have computer screens to use as editors, so in place of Yamaha’s horrible diagrams and black-box “we don’t need knobs” design, you get a new dynamic patch editing system that lets you dig into every detail.īut maybe in the 2020s, musicians are also growing more interested in the eccentricities of the originals – call it digital antique. And sounds that were unacceptable in the 80s sound deliciously edgy to our more adventurous modern ears. We’ve gone back to the hands-on editing of the analog instruments of the age. Since then, though, we’ve all become more cyborg-like in our music machine tastes. To many synthesists of the mid-80s, the Yamaha keyboards were perfect preset machines, clean and digital and predictable, and the analog devices that came before them were relabeled junk. But it’s also worth saying, the DX7 and its ilk from Yamaha have taken on a different meaning to our 2021 selves than the machines’ 1980s users. But leave it to Plogue to do bit-for-bit digital recreation – with a precise reproduction of the Yamaha 6-operator FM synth range, including the legendary FM7. ![]()
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