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    FM Synthesis (techniques, anecdotes)

    in EKT General Discussion

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    ok TX81Z should arrive today. started to do my homework yesterday and went through the manual before to go to bed. Still need to find a good programmer program. The TX81Z programmer looks good but I didn't see you have to pay after one month (not a lot though, 20$). There's also Ctrlr which looks good, but not dedicated to the synth.

    Good news, congrats!

     

    I could pm you a link to my (free but wonky) sequencer/ tx81z editor if you like.

    FM Synthesis (techniques, anecdotes)

    in EKT General Discussion

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    hi ppl I'm lost in Sysex right now and maybe one of you can help with his science. I want to recover a DX9 voice (which means "preset" or "sound" in Yamaha's language but the FM scientists out there probably already know). I used this sound on a couple of tracks when I first got the synth but at some point I get rid of it (making room on the synth for a band project). I still have this sound in a bank sysex file (I mean a sysex file containing a full set of 20 presets), which is one of the six factory banks provided with the synth. The thing is, I just want to load this specific voice (which happens to be the first one of the set) into my DX9.

     

    The other thing is, I think there's something broken because the last time I tried to back up my current set of voices as a sysex file (so from DX9 to computer with MIDI-OX) I really couldn't manage to do it (I made several posts over the internets for example here - don't need to read though it's not important let's just say I can't backup my current voices). If I could do that I could then load the factory set of voices in which the sound I'm looking for is, note on paper how this preset is made (OP algo, ratios etc), load my current set back and finally recover the sound by programming it.

     

    But I cannot do that. So basically my question is, do you guys know if there's a way to make a single voice sysex file out of the whole set (20 voices) sysex file I have (precisely to extract the very first voice from it). I tried to read the sysex data and look how it's made but I definitely can't understand it.

     

    Alternatively, I have a couple of recordings from this sound and could export some examples in case someone here wants to try mimicking it. So far I can't I'm still too much Fmoob for that (FM noob).

     

    Would be awesome if someone can help I have a couple of tracks with it that I paused and that I'd like to finish some day.

    I don't know about the dx9 but the tx81z manual contains tables of the memory layout of the voice banks. Some bytes contain more than one parameter, so you really need that info, which is probably in the manual.

    The first thing i did when decoding the voice bank layout was looking for the patch names (ascii chars, 41h to 7Ah).

    I wrote the sysex bank as hex string, threw it into Excel and made a map for each voice like this (each colour represents a parameter group, yellow = op1, orange=op2, and so on) just to get my head around it..

     

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    FM Synthesis (techniques, anecdotes)

    in EKT General Discussion

    Posted

    what did you build it in? and what method did you use to regulate the data bandwidth? That is one of my side projects.

     

     

    VB6 (I integrated the tx81z editor into my midiox interfaced sequencer program). The method is quite straightforward, after a message has been sent, wait a bit before sending the next one. So for example if you change a parameter by hand, don't send all values, just a couple at regular time intervals.

    FM Synthesis (techniques, anecdotes)

    in EKT General Discussion

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    I've been giving more time to my DX9 lately and I'm soooo glad something is finally happening between it and me! I tried to program it for so long, feeling kind of frustrated about it because everyone talks about FM as being the ultimate synthesis approach and I was just able to produce meh sounds. But I'm starting to have nice results now, finally it gets rewarding. Now I really want another synth of that sort, no velocity really sucks. A TX81Z would be lush but I'm starting to quite like programming on hardware with the shitty buttons... DX11 for Christmas maybe, but it doesn't look too easy to find.

     

    thanks to this thread anyway, it helped me to get there

    Good to read that! It's a struggle sometimes innit.

     

    Got myself as tx81z a couple of months ago, but am still on the surface of it. I wrote up an editor for it, which is just slightly less spartan than using those buttons. I've managed to squeeze out some nice sounds, and the multitimbrality is really nice as well. Lately bass is amazingly addictive, and i like the Space Vibe preset, which can be heard at the beginning and ending of Ceephax's Ceeland B side.

     

    About its midi buffer, yes it's small. This only turned out a problem for me when controlling parameters through sysex, so i had to regulate the data bandwidth in my editor program. After this had been taken care of, no problems at all.

     

    Get it while it's cheap!

    a thread about drugs

    in General Banter

    Posted

    Big ups to the UPS.

     

    I likey me some rit, addy or charlie and then get me in the studio to make some intense music.

     

    And to all you hippies that think smoking a few bowls a day does no "long term physical damage", fuck off already.

     

    why you big upping the UPS. do they deliver? i would like to know more about this as we share the same interests.

     

    lol irl

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