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’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. Lately I’ve been working with my old Yamaha TX816, TX802, and DX-7 synthesizers from the early 1980’s. It is possible to convert the patch data to a 4-operator friendly bank with TXConvert, but the complexity of the patches is lost in the conversion from 8 envelope generator parameters of the DX7 and DX9 down to 5 parameters of the newer 4-operator FM synthesizers such as the DX100 or TX81Z.Best Yamaha DX7 TX802 TX816 iPad Patch Editor Librarian App Please note that even though the DX9 is a 4-operator FM synthesizer, these patches are not compatible with any other Yamaha 4-operator FM synthesizer due to the fact that DX9 shares the same patch data format with the DX7, and has the same envelope generators as a DX7. This bank is only 20 patches, the maximum number of patches in a DX9 bank, so if it is loaded into a Yamaha DX with more than 20 patches per bank such as a DX7, patches 21 and up will be identical to patch 20. While it is possible to load these patches in FM8, FM8 is not strictly a DX7 simulator, and FM8 cannot properly reproduce most of these patches.Įven though the patches in this bank were made on a DX9, it can be loaded into a DX7 or a DX9 because of the similarities in hardware and patch parameter storage. Dexed, a free VST which simulates nearly all of the hardware and features of the DX7, can also load and reproduce these voices with great accuracy.

It is also possible to load these patches on an SY77 or SY99 with the appropriate software. This bank can be loaded into any Yamaha DX7 or DX9 equivalent synthesizer, including the DX7II series, the TX7, TX802, and TX216/816 synthesizers. The cassette data was loaded into a DX9 and the bank was dumped via MIDI. This bank of patches for the Yamaha DX9 was converted from an audio file of casette data posted by user18081971 on soundcloud, which you can find at.

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