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The DX7ii I have is a fucking tank of a machine and I'm playing it until it breaks, fixing it, and then playing it some more. I guess I kind of understand typic
by boondaburrah 5y ago
The DX7ii I have is a fucking tank of a machine and I'm playing it until it breaks, fixing it, and then playing it some more. I guess I kind of understand typical "car guys" now.
The best part is being able to map the sliders to /almost/ any parameter within a patch, so it's possible to have expressive control over the tonality of your instrument while playing live. Sure it involves menu diving to figure out ahead of time, but I'm a programmer. It's really more about the joy of being like "this sound needs more wonk, lets tie this parameter to the output of this other function and ooOOOH not what I was expecting but let's go"
- jacquesm 5y agoHah! You're using it like it was intended to be used, the DX-7 is first and foremost a performing musician's tool, that's exactly why it was built as strong as it was, made to be tossed in the back of the car on the way to gigs. If you ever can't find a part let me know.
- boondaburrah 5y agoOh man, if only I knew what was wrong with it half the time. I've replaced the ROM with 1.9 since it supposedly has diagnostics but they don't tell me much. I've been trying to design a new cartridge for it, but writing to it is always super funky. The service manual doesn't exactly say what the timings are supposed to be, just the pinout. Mostly though I've just got some weird dirty hiss (sounds like a rainstorm) on the output all the time that makes it unsuitable for recording. I use DEXED + midi in that case, but it's still fun on it's own (also weirdly I find menu-diving to edit patches easier than being presented with that big DEXED UI) Thanks for keeping these things alive