Description
Get the patches here: https://espenkraft.com/b/A9GWl
Yamaha DX7 80s Magic Vol.2 — a premium collection of 32 of my best voices for the Yamaha DX7 and DX7II.
The download includes two sysex files:
A DX7II 32-voice bank (I33-I64). Works for any DX7II or TX802.
A DX7mk1 (and Dexed) 32-voice bank. Also works for all hardware or software that takes DX7 sysex.
* I also included a 6-voice multi sampled electric guitar SF2 patch. Taken directly from the guitar (and amp) you hear in some of the audio demos in the video.
These sysex banks can be converted to work with all newer Yamaha keyboards like Montage, ModX etc.
Some of the voices in the bank are originally made on the DX7II and as such they CAN sound a little bit different when used on a DX7 (or Dexed). Adjust the L1 and R1 of the envelopes and they'll be almost spot on.
This is not a random bank put together overnight. These sounds have been with me for decades — some of them all the way back to the 1980s. They have been carefully selected, edited and refined over many years, and used by me on my own albums as well as in commercial music productions. Every sound in this collection earned its place. There is not a single filler patch here.
With a gazillion patches for the DX7 out there, there will always be a kind of overlap of patches sounding similar. Not all of these patches are my original creations from the start. Some are factory presets edited beyond their origin. Some are patches made from scratch, while some originates from Keyboard Magazine and patches sent in by readers in the 80s. Patches we'd have to sit down and program from the text sheet.
However, all of the patches in this download, in their current state, are patches I've edited, polished and revised through decades of small adjustments.
Yamaha DX7 Magic Vol.2 Voice list:
1 Hard Marmb (Axel-F)
2 Hard GT (perfect for 80s sequencenced arps)
3 Silkysofts (FM pads)
4 Attbrass (80s hard and soft options)
5 Life (in one day)
6 Weg Bass (lay underneath harder bass and you have it)
7 Trick Marmb (the latest trick)
8 Digi 1 (perfect for 80s sequencenced arps)
9 MellowOrg (when you need FM organ transplants)
10 Tinydance (Eltons fav)
11 Solid BS (Always in my house)
12 Hard BS (Saunders)
13 PianoGit (perfect for 80s sequencenced arps)
14 DXCP70 (Ballads)
15 Popbrass (for early 80s b-movie action)
16 Fairstring (synthethic strings)
17 Smallbells (Smallville)
18 DigiArp (perfect for 80s sequencenced arps)
19 Mutepluck (rhythmic arithmetic)
20 Pan (Labyrinth)
21 Laserclaw (great name for a band)
22 Tubbs (Ricardo)
23 Shimmer (Etheral)
24 MellowP (Juliet)
25 NightIce (for your girlfriend)
26 Poly (amore)
27 Click (Ambience)
28 Chimes (X-mas)
29 Fret (Serra)
30 Growl (Low)
31 Bellharm (cozy)
32 Valerie (rites of passage)
00:00 Demo Song 1
00:30 Demo Song 2
00:49 Demo Song 3
01:00 Demo Song 4
01:17 Playing some of the patches
05:47 Bonus SF2 electric guitar patch