Would love to see your take on a TX81ZYeah that's right IvyBirds! With dexed as a solid Free and Open Source DX7 and the Plogue OPS7 as a sample-perfect DX7 for 50 bucks, i didn't feel like i needed to sit in that spot. Also the yamaha envelopes are a different shape than the ADSR envelopes we have (allowing essentially a decay in the sustain and hold phases) etc...Yeah on a world where Plogue's OPS7 exists and sells for $50 there is no need for yet another DX7 clone on softwareThis is not a deal breaker in any way, just a realization that you can't load DX7 sysex files in to Six Sines like you can with Dexed and others.
Six Sines is a bit different and that's a good thing
I do have some python code sitting around that cracks TX81Z sysex and I thought about maybe you know..... but decided to keep the project as a sort of little experiment in its own right
One idea I have had for a long time is to make a Quad TX81Z plugin, but since I am not a programmer can't pull off
If you look at the TX81Z algos the first 4 are all single carriers with three modulators.
The idea is to take those four and then arrange the output of each carrier to be the basis of all 8 algos
So essentially you would have 16 operators but arranged in 4 groups of 4, with the potential of each group of four modulating another group of four
Or if you used Algo 8 you could have four independent groups of four creating a layered patch or even playing the same patch with the carriers detuned from each other
To me this seems like a unique way to get new timbres and explore 4op FM in a new way while also making 16 op FM possible
But maybe my mind has a bit to much malted hops and bong resin in it who knows lol
Statistics: Posted by IvyBirds — Wed Jan 29, 2025 10:09 pm