Lucas
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Piezo comes to my mind.
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I re-listened to the most part of my Coil discography like two weeks ago, it was great. The peak was probably Batwings, it put me in such an emotional state...
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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.. Clipboard01.jpg great, thanks for that. I don't feel like putting my head into that right now but I'll look later. i wonder if "Lately Bass" refers to Massive Attack? edit: oh just saw it's an original preset so that's a no, the synth was released before Blue Lines. nevermind
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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.
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Yeah those 0-100 timings are not extremely intuitive but I find you get used of them after some time. It doesn't seem linear but anyway it can do very snappy as well as veeery long (or at least on the DX9 but I gues it's more or less the same with the other DXs)
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yeah I was thinking about percussive stuff, but maybe also slow envelopes that you apply on modulator operators? could disturb the harmony of the sound though if a well defined tone is what you're after. Except maybe if the operator you're modulating has a very high pitch and a low volume? Well as I said I'm still at the entrance of FM world so let stop to speculate and go make a patch instead
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Yeah it has already been pointed out here that sine wave is the most interesting (or say "rich") wave to use for modulating the frequency of another. I've so much to learn with FM still that I guess I wouldn't play with other waves too soon. The pitch envelope thing is different though, I'm sure it changes drastically the sonic possibilities for a FM synth, correct me if I'm wrong
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I guess that brings a new world of possibilities, great thing to know. Yeah DX11 has a couple of onboard effects. Overall DX100 looks kind of basic in comparison.
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Good info on the TX81Z! (I'll check the thing about Ceeland, just unearthed the cassette on Friday evening and listened to the A side before to go out ;-) regarding its limitations and detailed specs, do someone know in what extent the DX11 is similar? Vintage Synth Explorer says it's "essentially" a keyboard version of the TX81Z so I guess there are some tiny differences.
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wow that's excellent, thanks for sharing. the guy seems to have a lot on bandcamp, might be worth to check it out!
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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
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wow that's some cool tracks you posted. The breaks style is very Steinvord indeed but the acid sounds different to me somehow. The 18yr. old thing on the Heorge Garrison's page makes a direct reference to Steinvord but that doesn't mean anything. anyway, good music, hope more comes! (thanks to point that out)
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Well I remember being a little bit disappointed or say overwhelmed by the Incal when I first read it, but since that time I read it two or three times again and it's really one of those things I find always better each time I read it. It's very dense and can seem absurd but a lot of the details make sense to me somehow. Jodorowsky looks pretty crazy though, I saw an interview of him once and seeing him speaking made me think there must be some serious stuff happening in his head the whole time. By the way I really like how relaxed Moebius seems to be based on interviews I saw of him. I read "Le Bandard Fou" yesterday, it's a pretty nice one. I think this one is translated in English right? Soon I'll have re-read almost everything from Moebius the french institute of Leipzig has to provide. I start to feel limited in this library because it just has french things (pretty good collection though, a lot of classics and also more modern stuff) so I guess I'll have to subscribe to the city library soon and start to read non-french comics again. I have a couple of Crumb books at home, two Charles Burns and one Daniel Clowes, but I know them quite well now.
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with pleasure ;-) I couldn't find great pictures but here we go : This edition is in a pretty large book, very pleasant to read. The drawings and colors also contribute to that. Originally this book was released (in 2009) with the text and dialogues being separated (one page with drawings and next to it the page with the corresponding text). I kind of slept on it when it was released that way but now I think about it I'm pretty sure it's a very interesting way to format a comic book.
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Yeah the Aedena Cycle is one of my favourite Moebius. It's way easier to get into it than in some other books of him, still it's deep and mysterious enough to make you want to read it again from times to times. I had the same feeling about the last Arzach (oh wait it's spelt "Arzak" on this last book), although I just read it once so far. I don't know if you heard about it but it's quite recent, it was supposed to be the first part of a new series (with dialogues, in opposition to the original Arzach stories) but it ended up staying unfinished. It's great, can't wait to re-read it when I return to my family for Christmas (quite a lot of comic books there!). As for the Garage, I just re-read the first book (or anyway the big one with the character of Jerry Cornelius, not sure about the chronology of this series). True that this way of writing can seem a little bit overdone from times to times. I read that he wrote a part of it being under the influence of psychedelics or something and I guess this vibe is quite obvious. But I like how the story evolves from this chaos into something more focused eventually. Yesterday I started to read again the last book of the Garage, "Le Chasseur Déprime" and it's clearly more cohesive as the older stories. Well at some point Major Gruber (without a "t" in this book...) get trapped into a succession dream levels (quite hard to explain) and it gets kind of abstract but it still feels more consistent (maybe mature would be the word). I just saw it doesn't exist in english but if you can grab one somehow it worth it alone for the crazy art.
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whoops, I have another question concerning this thing with the impossibility of making feedback loops with the PFM2 : on Yamaha DX synths, feedback is a quite important parameter to modify the character of a sound. Is there anything equivalent on preenfm?
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I'm definitely up to participate to another thread on FM hardware. I actually almost created one instead of bumping this thread. @ skibby : I also experienced MIDI buffers problems on my DX9 and I'm concerned to hear that it also happens on more elaborate FM synths like the TX81Z... @ poblequadrat : thanks for the insights, I know feel I got all the information I need to make my way into the world of FM hardware synths. I took a closer look at preenfm2 and it looks great. Less than 200€, a couple of hours to build (which must be quite fun actually), both simple and complex algorithms (from 3 to 6 OP), multipart (4 instruments addressable on different MIDI channels), interface looks nice, compatible with DX7 patches, overall project looks like the kind of thing which deserve to be supported, Christmas is not too far now, etc... Can someone here elaborate on his experience with a preenfm synth?
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Wow that's some serious french accent in that preenfm2 video on the official website, it made it hard for me to concentrate! I don't really have time to watch now but it looks like a nice DIY project. I'm not afraid of soldering and I'd be glad to support such a "home-made" project if the synth happens to suit what I'm after. I kind of missed it but the DX11 looks like a good option for me, thanks to point it out Mesh Gear Fox. I'd have another question for those of you who already compared 4-OP and 6-OP FM synths : how big is the difference? Is 4-OP a big limitation when you're used to 6-OP? For me FM is still a kind of unknown land where a lot of surprises can show up so I still have a lot to learn with 4-OP, but once you get more familiar with FM, do you feel frustrated about having just four operators? Another one : I more or less just now FM with sine waves. Is it a big plus to have other waveforms to use for modulation? And the last question goes to John "honest-man" : what do you mean when you say that DX200 is harder to "deeply" program as other Yamaha FM units? I just saw a couple of videos yesterday and have no idea how you program it really but it seems more user-friendly. Though, I asked myself if it provides the same amount of control as say a DX7 where you can tweak really a lot of stuff for each operator. Loving this thread right now, thanks guys!
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Anyone already used a DX200 here? Never heard about this synth before and it looks nice. After 3 years of owning a DX9 I'm starting to get more consistently into programming it and I feel frustrated about its limitations (the main one being the absence of velocity response ; bad MIDI implementation is also a problem). Anyway everything seems to lead me towards purchasing a DX7 but I'm still looking for alternatives and this one looks nice.
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yes I do. I don't know how it's translated but I quite like how it's written originally. The made up words to design various things specific to each stories are always funny, and generally the texts have a consequent sense of playing with words. It's also sometimes deliberately kind of obscure, letting some room to the reader's imagination. Texts are one of the reason I meant that Moebius work is not the easiest to digest, but after getting into it I never found them exaggeratedly complicated and always ended up to enjoy them.
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Moebius work needs time to digest most of the time, his books are more on the grower side. He made a couple of more accessible stuff though, which are also great. Did you guys read The Aedena Cycle? It's so good. I was also amazed by the last Arzach, which (in the like of the last Garage Hermétique with Major Gruber) was a return to the character of Arzach, in which was supposed to be the first volume of a new series, where, unlike in the old Arzach books, characters speak. It might be the last book he made. Pretty sad it had to stop like that.
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The Hermetic Garage is great. I have the last one he made, which is pretty recent and which I love.
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yeah I also wondered about that at the beginning when I still didn't digest all the tracks and couldn't differentiate them all. I was thinking "wait didn't I hear that melody in another track already?". I love this reference actually. The two tracks are very different but it makes them sound like cousins or something. slightly off-topic, but what's always been weird to me is that nobody ever comments on the fast drukqs tracks being (very good) variations on a couple melodic themes. Maybe it's just too obvious to mention? huh could you elaborate on that? I never noticed such a thing
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ok I give up I'll give it a second try some day. I saw it right after the series, I guess I was simply expecting something else
