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It appears to generate ROM (cartridge) images, which I'm guessing are sound patches, for a vintage Yamaha FM synthesizer -- A model which was extremely popular
by satori99 6y ago
It appears to generate ROM (cartridge) images, which I'm guessing are sound patches, for a vintage Yamaha FM synthesizer -- A model which was extremely popular and ubiquitous a few decades ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaha_DX7 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaha_DX7
- aasasd 6y agoNotably, there are a crapload of software synths emulating DX7—as exemplified by the two mentioned on the page—and at least some of them accept patches in its native format, so apparently there's an ‘ecosystem’ of sorts of these patches floating around.
- mortenjorck 6y agoThe file format that it downloads (.syx) is a MIDI sysex or system-exclusive message file (https://www.midi.org/specifications-old/item/table-4-universal-system-exclusive-messages https://www.midi.org/specifications-old/item/table-4-univers...). These are basically scripts of MIDI instructions that exist outside the regular note on-off messages, and can be used for a variety of things, in this case programming a patch in the DX7’s synthesis engine.