Yamaha DX7 IID - Performance patches
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- The performance patches can now be downloaded here:
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Yamaha DX7 IID (made in 1987) differs from the original DX7 (made in 1983) in that you can stack two patches on top of each other and make a performance patch. You can either stereo pan the two sounds left and right or have them both at the center. Here I demonstrate some of the performances that I've created from existing patches. The first performance sound however, was found on the instrument when I bought it. The sound at 1:00 is a sound I recieved, and made a perfomrance patch of, from Paul Mangru here on CZcams, that I've tweaked a little bit. The sound at 4:01 is a sound I've programmed myself.
Even though the DX7 is digital and excels at the typical FM electric piano sounds and bell sounds, it can sound pretty warm and analogue which you can hear when you listen to the pad sounds in this video. I played the DX7 IID is without any additional effects.
Listen to my music: / andgalf
DX7 IID. One of the best 80’s synths!
Don't forget on the DX7 II FD :). I have just bought it today. You made me a litlle bit more proud .
The finest synthesiser ever created: The DX7 IID
Better than the Moog?
Lex Luthor you mean the Minimoog? The Dx7 is more versatile than the minimoog, it can create much more sounds. I can easily create a moog-sounding FAT bass or lead by connecting a dx7 with an external filter (i have this setup)
Moogs are great synths, but the DX7 is (or at least was) more versatile in terms of it's sound creation ability, but I'm sure you know that. Nothing wrong with Moog it just serves a different purpose.
No not natively. You can install the grey matter E! card which enables an arpeggiator, among other features.
@@martinschranz660 also like, you can really easily run an arpeggiator from the computer. I love my DX7ii but i wouldn't ever call it the "greatest synth ever". Maybe it is for you, but to me it's a certain area or palette of sounds, analog synths serve some very different areas.
The ultimate drug, the synthesizer.
lol
just flashes of all the 80's movies I grew up on come flooding in while listening to this
I know, I used FM7 and even FM8 for a few years before I finally decided I would buy an old DX7. To me there's a huge difference between FM7 and DX7. I find that you can't really get that good old electric piano sound on the FM7. And I find hardware in general to be much more direct and inspirational than soft synths.
The classics never die
The sounds of my childhood, the 80s were such a great era. Awesome Job.
سلح
@4:54 just outstanding ornamental chord work, perfectly paired with the timeless EP patch
Thank you!
The performance capability of the DX7IId offer much complex sounds than the DX7 first model. It sounds warmer, this synth is really awesome, so much versatile.. FM at his best.
A legendary, must-have synth ever made.
Using it together with analogue or VA synthesizers makes it sound even better!
You're absolutely right! It's a perfect complement to all my analogue gear. A must-have as you say. It's very inspiring.
I have the DX7 IIFD.
Excellent demo of the Dx7 II. I have the module version, TX802. I need to load lots of my original patches from my DX7 Mk1 and use it as a sound module for recording with my DX7 Mk 1. By the way, you can create amazing analog pad and string patches with the DX7 Mk 1 without layering ( I have the SuperMAX board installed in my DX7 Mk I but I don't use it). I have a dedicated hardware effector Lexicon MX400, making my DX7 Mk 1 sound magic. Long Live DX7!!!
Wow , this synth is like the missing link. Never realized a digital synth could sound so warm and pleasant. I really love it’s sound.
Would fit in any mix perfectly
Man, this is so wonderful, I listened to it in a loop a couple of hours non-stop. I especially like the 2:35-3:10 fragment.
Thank you! I'm really glad you liked it! About the fragment: it's just some basic chords really...
The beginning of the video at 0:04 I play the chords for "The Final Countdown" and at 7:09 it's "You're the inspiration" otherwise just me improvising.
i also want that part looped
your patches are pretty legendary man. thanks for sharing!
Thank you for your kind words! Remember, most of them I've just collected and then made dual (performance) patches from, so I can't take much credit for it, but I'm glad you appreciate it.
THANK YOU so much for sharing the patches and for the awesome demo!
that's amazing man , all do respect I'm so jealous. I have a Yamaha dx100 , but this is like having 4 of my dx100 together at once! great great job on your patch!
Thank you!
This is so freaking amazing! I just bought this board, can't wait for it to arrive next week... Great demo, really nice patches!
3:12 - 4:00 such a lovely pad and chord progression!
wow
this is absolutely sick
Thanks! Yes, you're absolutely right. I bought a TC Electronic M350 some time after I made this video which I now use all the time with the DX7 IID.
Very nice demo, finally a true player and not some sequenced dance junk! Thank you!
Always enjoying the DX7 sound!
These performance patches are great! Exactly what I needed for the song I'm working on right now :-)
I can never get enough of the DX7 and D-50. If not even for the sound, than at least for the looks. I mean, why designers made desirable instruments back then, and today's designers seem to throw tings on front panels at random without any sense of taste?
My experience with my DX7II tells me that FX helps a lot to improve DX sound. Beautiful sounds demonstrated here.
Such a pleasing demonstration. 🎶
Thank you
your patchs are exellents and it work fine with FM8
especially the first one "Ensemble"
Great work! I love hearing new takes on this great synth.
All the patches you show un this video are fantastics, DX7 it's , but the electric piano you play beetwen 7:08 and 7:56 it's the best one for me. So Peter Cetera!! Take me to my fifteen inmediatly in the first chord! You play very nice too. Congrats.
I used to have a DX7IIFD and I'm crying back that time. At 3.15 the strings/pad sounds so beautiful!
Thanks! Yes, the DX7II is really good at strings and pads as a matter of fact. Why don't you get a DX7II again if you miss it? The're not that expensive I mean. I found mine on Ebay for about 300 Euro. And IMHO VSTs doesn't come close to a real DX7.
roboticrealm I know. I've just can't rid of this thought since your video. I think I will go for it. I used to have an SY77 too but unfortunately it's really hard to find nowadays any TG77, SY77, SY99 in a relatively good state regarding especially their display.
Gabor Ok. Good luck! I hope you find a DX7II in good condition!
Beautiful. Great programming.
Thanks for the patches link. This one actually includes the performance data too.:-)
Bro,Its amazing!!! Very good patches!
The lovely DX e-piano simply screams for sus chords.
5:31 bells sounds awesome
Fantastic patches! Tons of usable stuff there!
Thanks!
Great demo! Your DX7 videos are awesome!
Excelente demo: saludos desde Honduras. Gracias.
Legend
7:08 is my favourite song in this video
Great demo. Thank you for file sharing.
Thank you very much for the presets !!! It sounds AMAZING!!!
Thank you! Glad you liked them!
Great playing and great patches! Thanks for sharing them :-)
Thank you!
4:55 best song! Love this patch!! Mine came Next month! :)
Man, those are some great patches. i just got a Dx7iid form eBay and I hope I can get these sounds in there.
Thank you! (eller Tack kanske man ska säga i detta fallet ;-) )
Thank you very much! I'm glad you liked my demo! :-)
Thanks for sharing, I enjoy the patches :-)
wonderful sounds!
Nice sounds , thanks for sharing
Excellent bells
FM Synthesis is great once you learn it.
Thanks for sharing your sysex; these are great!!!
DX7s are wonderful instrument. I got a SY35 a while ago - for about half the money you've got to pay for a DX7. The SY35 has digital and analog waveforms which you can combine (2 or 4 different sounds). You can use a joystick to move between those sounds (like Kawai's K1). The SY35 is absolutely underrated imho.
It's quite similar to the SY22 is it not? Check out my video on that one if you haven't already.
The SY35 seems to be the fancy version of the SY22 (16 bit instead of 12 bit).
Min 7:09 , best sound ever
is it possible to copy the PATCHS from the DX7II to the DX7S ???
Lovely PAD at around 3:20 !
Thanks!
agreed! Also 4:01 , 7:58 , but every patch tested here are 1st Class classics :)
yahnsolo Thank you yahnsolo! The patch at 4:01 I've made all by myself.
roboticrealm The PAD @ 4:40 is very interesting. I doubt very much I could get that out of a DX7(Mk1). Is rich. humming and fuzzy. And @ 8:10 is equally beautiful with a thick bottom end.
Are these both DUAL LAYER mode please?
monsterjazzlicks ALL the patches in this video are Dual layer patches. I explain it in the info/description of the video (under the video). Just read it. That's why you can't make these patches that I demonstrate in this video on a DX7 MK1.
8:00 best patch
Very close to analog synth sound!
Looks like it could use a cleaning... Some nice sounds, especially the synth strings. I’ve been playing with a TX802. It can stack eight programs. Unfortunately, despite all the DX sounds out on the internet. I can’t seem to find many sounds that aren’t generic FM sounds (most of them sound the same and there’s no complete collection that doesn’t include tons of duplication). I know FM synthesis is more diverse than what it sounds like, but... There also seem to be no 3rd-party performances for the TX802 (you have to include the actual voices for performances to be portable).
Wuts the first patch
Sounds good
once i used to own one of these m2. best touche i ve ever had. Now i have sy35. It is also ok.
4:55- 5:30 excelente P.E. yo tube un yamaha igual ahora me arrepiento por haberme desecho de el, se está convirtiendo en todo un clasico.
Ja, det är möjligt.
legend!
Ok thanks I only asked because they sound amazing
Thanks! Let me know if you want them as sysex file or something like that.
4:01 is it possible to recreate this sound on a reface dx?
Doubtful, I have one, not enough operators or control of them I would think, nothing has come out of mine with that level of complexity in the sound quality.
Hi I just have a quick questions If I up load all the patches as per th elink will they override my current sounds and just one quick question how many sounds are there in the available link ?
I'm upgrading to a DX7 IID so i dual sounds and listen to it in Stereo.
The sound at 7:08 is already from the keyboard ? The ones that are not from the keyboard itself once I buy one: the dropbox link you share with sounds I guess, how do u have to do to get them into the DX7 II ?
I recently bought a DX7IIFD. but it didn't come with any Cartridge (a ROM or RAM)?. So I bough a floppy disk with loads of sounds from an Ebayer from France.
Unfortunately I've not been able to correctly load the sounds on to it to be able to hear them and therefore save them for Performance use.
I love some of the patch sounds you have on this video as I'm in a new romantic 80's tribute band.
I don't know what the SYSEX thing is mentioned below as I've only the floppy disk I bought.
Any tips you can offer will be warmly received. I'm not sure, if the 64 sounds currently on the synth are the factory sounds or made by the former owner?
Tony aka Semi-tone
Super sons de DX7!
5:20 urrgh...sounds like the music you used to get on an American Tv show just before the end credits would roll.....so puke making...so great at the same time
Thank you!
Thanks! I don't know exactly. I will check when I get home from work. It's some kind of ROM cartridge so it's nothing fancy. Quite boring sounds on it actually. It was included when I bought the synth.
Wonderful FM sounds! I´m trying to recreate these sounds (from 4:55 to 7:55) in my DS-8, but I still don´t find that exactly tone.
Hi, will these patches also work with my DX7 MKI ?
Regards
Well, not really. Performance patches or dual patches, where you layer two patches on top of each other, like I've done in this video, is not possible with a DX7 MKI. However, the basic single patches is still playable on a MKI. This was the whole reason I bought myself a MKII DX7.
nice...i miss that time. just a synth, just playing, not messing around with so overdosed stuff like today.....
Beautiful mate ! I don't ever remember hearing these sounds on it in the late 80's ?
Thanks! Well, maybe the patches I found on the internet, which I've based my performance patches on, are newer than the ones people created for it during the 80's...I don't know...
The first example and also the moogy type one sound brilliant !
I have a DX7 Mk1 and DX21 I am learning. Would really love a chat some time if you were around (maybe on Skype) ?
monsterjazzlicks The first performance patch was on on the instrument when I bought it and the moogy patch is Paul Mangrus patch that I've only doubled and and done som dual detune on. Mr Mangru is an excellent programmer when it comes to the DX7. Be sure to check out his stuff here on CZcams.
I don't think I could teach you much about the DX7. It's very hard to program and the only things I'm apparently good at, since people seem to like my video, is to layer two patches on top of each other and make it sound good. With a Mk1 DX7 or a DX21 you can't do that so I probably can't help you there...
Ok man, cheers. I just wanted to chat about a couple of basic fundamental things which are common to all DX's and which are drastically holding me back from getting off the ground here.
monsterjazzlicks One thing I've begun to notice however is that if you take a patch and first check which algorythm it uses, and look at the picture of that algorythm on the synth, the operators at the bottom row are the ones you should begin to edit if you want to change attack, decay, sustain and release. If this is what you want you try and go to these operators in edit mode and change the EG (envelope generator). Which parameter attack, sustain and so forth is, is hard to know, but if you change the values on R1, R2, R3 and so forth you will eventually find attack, sustain etc.
Will this work with NI FM7 or FM8? Or any other emulation of the DX7?
great !
6:55 This Givew Michael Jackson Gone Too Soon Vibes
At some point, could you please go through the algorithms of some of the patches? I really like the sounds
@Bas Ti I checked The ROM cartridge and it just says on the label that it's a ROM cartridge, nothing more...
Ok,thanks Robotic.......
robótico
Many thanks for sharing your patches man. Appreciated. I just don't get it that Yamaha made the synth mono.
Thanks. Well, the DX7IID is in stereo....sort of. If you layer two sounds you can put one to the left and one to the right.
I just bought some headphones for my keyboard but I don't know where to plug it in, and when I do plug it in I don't hear no sound from the keys
Check the manual: www.synthmanuals.com/manuals/yamaha/dx7ii_fd_d/owners_manual/
Hi great Job!! what cartridge are you using ????
Whoa! I'm really impressed.
I never had my DX7 sound anything like at 06:19 or 07:09.
Would you share a sysex file with those patches?
that on start , remind me on Ella - Ella intro ? Nice playing . Some sound are analogy warm or silky digital .
The chords in the beginning are from the song The Final Countdown by Europe. Ella Ella uses similar chords however...
Just check it out , only D is similar . Grove , chord progression , different , at all .
And here I was thinking it was Rescue Rangers
Have you made a video using your POLY 61 KORG yet? That would be an interesting one!
No I haven't. There are quite a lot of good Poly 61 videos already here on youtube and I don't know if I can contribute with something new....but maybe I'll give it a shot when I have the time.
roboticrealm That would be great because I am sure you could come up with something interesting. Like a little tutorial of some of the main parameters. Most people just play stupid chords on it and wiggle the pitch-bend! lol
monsterjazzlicks I've made a little video of the Poly-61 now. No tutorial but a little demo of how it sounds, like all my other videos: czcams.com/video/37dCPoCA9J8/video.html
hello, i have a DX7IIFD
yeah the sysex file would be great so that i can load these sounds.... is it easy to load them and how?
If you give me your email adress I can send you the patch.
To load them you need the program DX Manager from fm-alive. Just google it and you'll find it right away. It costs only $20 and is well worth the price if you want to be able to program your DX7 easily and load patches from the internet into your synth.
Of course you need a midi interface and midi cables for your computer, but I asume you already have that.
To get the patches to stay in your synth you press Edit and then 14 and turn memory protect to off on your synth.
jazzmeister@gmail.com
Thanx
Jazz Devil Ok, I've sent you the patches now. Hopefully there wont be any problems.
thanx
These patches are ACE! Where can I find a list of them ?
Beautiful playing and patches. How can I get them?
alguien me puede decir el nombre del patche 16 que suena en el minuto 4:56? gracias de antemano por la instruccion.
Full tines
How many sound cartridges are there for the DX7....?
5:20 nice!
wow great, do you get them from 'Yamaha store'?
What’s the name of the piece on 2:01 - 3:09 ??
There is software for this synth, it is made 100% original! Native Instruments FM7...
8 People (for some reason) were like "PFFT! I could do better! Duh!"....and then...didn't.....
Are these the internal memory original performance patches? In your hands they sound awesome ! Thanks !
Thanks! Maybe the first one is as that one was on the synth when I bought it a few years ago. The other performances I've made myself. But you can read all of this in the description of the video.