You might want to wait until it goes on sale though as the price is steep for an iOS app, but it’s a good one so far. Next, what I was explaining above was how to CREATE a FULL. Patch Touch for the Yamaha DX7 is also now available.
Visualize, edit, and organize Sounds for your Yamaha DX7, DX7II, TX7, TX802, or TX816 synthesizer. This great VSTi can be used both as a DX7 librarian to edit patches and send them to your DX7 synth (if you own one) but also as an emulator as it’s built in engine recreates quite faithfully I think the sound of the DX7 synth. In addition, there is also another option for the computer: Or the SoundQuest Yamaha DX7 Editor and Librarian which is also great. I also use this editor for my Yamaha TX816 Lets you edit the patches of a Yamaha DX7, TX7, TX816, TX216.Īll voice and performance parameters are available. You can also find a nice second choice iPad editor for the Yamaha DX7, TX802, and TX816 using the TBMidiStuff App. Here is a great resource for Yamaha DX7 patches and information:įirst Choice in iPad App Editors for the Yamaha DX7, TX802, and TX816 would be Midi Designer. You first need Midi Designer but along with it you’ll get a collection of other layouts so in the long run the initial investment in Midi Designer will quickly pay off. I recently found one for the Yamaha DX-7 that works fantastic and I highly recommend it. I do believe my dx7 is about to be used more Reply synth master general (5 / 5). I’ve been a long time fan of MidiDesigner for the ipad which is an app that allows you to create layouts or custom editors to help with creating patches for popular keyboards. This can be used to actually create patches for a real dx7 I stopped using mine because it was so tedious to make sounds and not have enough memory to store them. Lately I’ve been working with my old Yamaha TX816, TX802, and DX-7 synthesizers from the early 1980’s. At least emagic AMT8/Unitor8s are nice.Best Yamaha DX7 TX802 TX816 iPad Patch Editor Librarian App Not sure what the options for cheap, quiet, small OS9 machines are or where to get the software. Old windows machines are kinda crappy too.
Plus you also need to get the software and genuinely worry about viruses because so much of the software doesn't even have legitimate means of obtaining or using anymore.
With built-in MIDI ports are you safe from the depths of driver hell? Hopefully there is a reasonable priced CF drive option so you can just load it all on there and not have to worry about disk management.ĭoes Win 98 have class compliant MIDI USB drivers? I have a win95 machine I keep around, but I need to find a game port MIDI cable. There looks to be a soundiver version and quite a very different editors with support for a variety of hardware. I seems like Atari hardware might be the most hassle free way of working with older synths, if you don't have "legacy" computers on hand already. A good site that has compiled music software released into the public domain is:, but there are others. The fact still is, that you say things in the video that show, that you have absolutely no idea about how the synth structure is, or about how the signal flow is.
Mmp wrote:There are very good Atari emulators that suppot MIDI for both PC & Mac with lots of music software. I specifically said 'easiest way to create patches from scratch USING DX7' nowhere in the post or the video do I specify I know anything about FM synthesis programming specifically.