It's amazing how integral the DX7 sound is to these classic hits. But there are a ton of bass patches for the dx7 out there which can be imported into Dexed, so you may be able to find an alternative.
FM8 has multiple waveforms so it is able to convert the patches.
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However (as the forum mod in the software forum helpfully reminded me) I can import DX7 sysex. I have a Native Instruments FM8, not a DX7. We found this gem and knew it had to be shared. The dx7 however, which dexed is based on, uses 6 operators, all strictly sine waves. TL DR - It's a lot of DX7 patches (read: classic 80's sounds), there are duplicates because curating takes forever. If you take the time to program it you will always find new directions to go from haunting thick basses to ethereal dreamy pads….and that makes it an adventurous instrument for generating new unknown sounds. YouTube User ' Power DX7 ' nails the sweet synth sounds of classic 80s hits with his masterful DX7 programming. Unfortunately, because the DX7’s FM synthesis is capable of a wide rich palette of exotic sounds.
Hundreds of thousands were sold and most people used it more as a homekeyboard – using the same old preset sounds for years.
If you hear it with attention, you can also note a marimba sound panned in the opposite of the DX7 bells sound and.
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It completely changed the synthesizer world back then and maybe not in a good way because it heralded a new digital era of “cold” sounding knobless synthesizers and preset dictated music. Kansas 'The Best Of Kansas' (CBS ©1984 / EPC 461036 2) This american rock group compilation includes a new original song ('Perfect Lover' / Track 6) released in 1984 and where you can hear the ROM3A 27 'TUB BELLS' patch used as a subtle melodic background line during the verses. The classic DX7 is a digital FM synthesizer from 1983. Yamaha DX7 The Yamaha DX7 FM synthesizer was notoriously hard to program, and many artists chose to work instead with its built-in presets.