It certainly didn't hav the flimsy DX-2x era case mounting, the DX-100's toy keys, and while its MIDI implementation was crude, so was its big brother the DX-7's, and that sure didn't it from dominating the synth market. While 4OP synthesis proved to be viable later, Yamaha didn't have the experience working with it quite yet, and the patches, while hardly tragedies, hadn't yet reached the glory days of the later DX-11 and legendary TX81Z.
At $1500 in 1983, the little brother to the time-honored $1999 DX-7 just didn't have anything to recommend him. Why the hatred? Well, when you look closely, it's not that the DX-9 was really such a horrible board.just that it had a few seriously crippling implementation flaws. Try to convince them that the DX-9 is a worthy member of the Yamaha synth family, and they'll start throwing rocks at you until you leave town. Mention you're a fan of the DX-9, and folks will stare at you. The synthesizer you never knew you wanted.until today.
One of the greatest Yamaha FM synths, for the greatest audio site online. (The synths had a switch which disabled BC/C1 dependence if these add-ons weren't plugged in, but FM7/FM8 isn't that bright.)Įnjoy, friends. Very few patches needed heavy modification the main problem I ran into was the "too much vibrato" problem, which could be solved by setting the LFO 1 value in the matrix view to slightly more than half its current value, or the "BC patches are silent" problem, which can be circumvented by removing all BC and Controller 1 values from the matrix completely. FM7 users please accept my apologies the FM7 version isn't ready at this time, but I've included the Sysex for you to import. You'll hear the DX-100 featured heavily in Orbital, Scanner, and Jean-Michel Jarre's work, quite a hefty curriculum vitae for a board marketed as a low-end home synth! Meanwhile, try playing with FM8's arpeggiator with one of the chromatic percussive presets, and wham, you're Nick Rhodes of Duran Duran in seconds - those FM vibes are much cooler than his poor, sick little overdriven Wasp. I think this preset collection is really quite impressive, and given the DX-100's are quite affordable on the used market, and DX-27's even more so - this just might be a good bet for your first 4OP synth, if you're shopping. There are some gorgeous electric pianos, a wide range of strings (including the sublime Silk Cello), powerhouse patches like the ancestor of the V50's Powerbrass, or the eerie whalesong of Waves. The general consensus is that the other presets are weak, but I'm not sure I agree with that.
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(Use the Mod Wheel to make the magic happen.) If they sound a little tinny to your ears now, remember, fat basses love tube saturation! You can use FM8's effects rack, switch on Tube Amp and Cabinet, and see an immediate fattening, or use Antares Tube, Amplitube, Vintage Channel, PSP Vintage Warmer, or your own favorite sound-sweetening tube simulation VST to make it really shine. Three, oh, what ROM presets they were! Especially the basses - the DX-100 has a few legendary bass preset, including Easy Synth (the famous DX-100 bass preset), Elec Bass, Mono Bass (adjust portamento to taste), WOW, Metal Keys, and its own unique spin on the sample-and-hold SH Bass. Two, the board fixed the DX-9's memory limitation problem by offering 192 ROM presets. It debuted at $445 - a steal for a genuine FM synthesizer with the same 4OP matrix we knew and loved from higher-end boards. Odd layout, designed for use slung over the shoulder with a strap, Eighties style.a trend that mercifully died with Terminator sunglasses, legwarmers and cement-hold hairspray. Its 49-key range was an octave short of the industry standard 61, and the keys weren't full-size - they were mini-keys, a nightmare for hands used to standard piano keys. For one, it used the same disastrous tape hookup that the DX-9 did, and no cartridge interface. Do yourself a favor, friends, and if you can't find a good price on a DX-100, check out the DX-27. I can only imagine it's because folks don't realize that you can get all the features of the DX-100 with an added full-sized 61-key (albeit not velocity sensitive) keyboard for pittance. And yet, the DX-27 is barely a step above the DX-9 on the used-gear junkpile these days. Its beefier twin, the DX-27, had the sturdier case and full-sized keys, but was otherwise identical, down to the presets and internal logic. It was a board that should have failed, and didn't. If the DX-9 was the big embarrassment of the DX family for its design limitations, the DX-100 was the unexpected smash success.
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