I do understand the settings for mono by reading the manual, but the poly modes are called "Sus Key P Retain" and "Sus Key P Follow" and it's lovely names, isn't it? I tried to understand what it says about them in the manual but I failed. The DX7 has four different settings, two for mono and two for poly mode. I checked out the synths more and more and actually the deal breaker with all of the above were the missing portamento settings, something Tristan made use of. "Oh, wow," I thought, "am I really working on a spread sheet right now? This was supposed to be a doodle!" But here I was, making a spread sheet.
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Or who thought that "Modulation Sensitivity Amplitude", "A Mod Sens", "SM" and "AM" are all one and the same thing? In order to not get confused all the time I had to do a comparison chart using the original DX7 manual.
I also opened up Dexed, which looks like this:įinally I also read the original DX7 manual and after constantly getting confused I realized: despite the clear similarities, quite a few things were different, too. This is what a Nord G2's DX7 modules look like: I quickly went to my own turf and opened up the Nord G2 editor to see if I could make sense of it's FM modules.
I had never worked with FM synthesis and had never owned a DX7, so this didn't say me anything. So, opening Sascha's patches in DX7 Librarian looked like this: And although I didn't get the original SysEx, I did get the patches for Atlantys from Sascha Lino Lemke, 2 albeit not as SysEx but for a program called DX7 Librarian. It did, however, bring me in contact with the wonderful Jean-Luc Plouvier who offered his help, but more on this later. Did I mention that the publisher didn't even bother to even answer my mail? No? Well, I guess you figured. For some reason, nobody who did the work before kept the files for other people. I posted my question on Facebook and got tons of advice, albeit not what I wanted. Since the pieces are being played sometimes I thought somebody must have the patches in digital format. The first thing was asking around if somebody had the original SysEx-Files for the piece. I also knew of Hexter, which was used by the Integra project at Birmingham Conservatoire to make a new version of Madonna of Winter and Spring by Jonathan Harvey, but I hadn't checked that out yet.Įverything looked fine and dandy and this was my ToDo-List in October 2014:Ģ) make a few tests on which instrument the patches sound best All in all, I didn't want to buy two old synthesizers but port everything on a newer instrument. I didn't have a DX7 and although it's not really difficult to find a cheap one on the second hand market they are heavy, old (aka "might die in concert") and don't really have a stellar audio output (quite a lot of noise and only 12 bit resolution, which in this case was not really what I wanted). (The other partners in crime for that concert were Elisa Medinilla (piano) and Maarten Quanten (De Bijloke)). So much so that I programmed Vision de la cité interdite for a 5-hour concert at Ghent's De Bijloke in February 2015 with Frederik Croene as my duo partner. 1 The scores are available at Editions Henry Lemoine, the piece has been played a few times already, I have a few instruments to play around with, so everything seems to be a doodle.
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Yamaha DX7 synthesizers are still around and so are quite a few emulations that can read the original patch files. They are originally part of the longer Random Access Memory cycle for two electric guitars, two electric drums and two synthesizers that have been re-written by Tristan Murail so they can be performed as synthesizer duos. Atlantysand Vision de la cité interditeby Tristan Murail are two pieces for two Yamaha DX7 synthesizers.
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