Yamaha DX7 and RX5 noodling 

The Roland TR8S latest update gives you legit FM drums

Glad you like it!

@tinylilmatt I think there's a few more slight differences, if anything I think the RX7 sounds slightly better, same samples but different sound chip apparently. I haven't made a side by side comparison though. The individual sliders are pretty handy.

@tinylilmatt From: acreil.wordpress.com/2019/05/18/yamaha-rx5-waveform-data-cartridge-rom-dumps/ 🍋 The RX5 sample playback engine is based on the YM3907 ADG and YM3908 WDP ICs. These ICs were only used in the RX5 and PTX8. Together with the YM2415 OPAW IC used in the HX-1 and HX-3 organs and CLP50 digital piano, this was the first incarnation of Yamaha’s AWM sample playback engine. AWM has a very interesting design and an remarkably dirty sound, but no aliasing. The later RX7 uses the YM2409 GEW1 IC. The sample playback engine and sound are basically the same as the RX5 and PTX8, but its capabilities are different (16 note polyphony without fixed assignment of sounds to monophonic channels, larger waveform ROM, panning, LFOs, pseudo-delay effects, simpler envelopes, no mixer, only stereo outputs). The most flexible AWM model is the TX16w, which uses the GEW1 IC with two YM2412 ADF digital filter ICs. 🍋

Thank you very much!

That crash has maybe got to be the most crystal clear cymbal sample to come from the eighties. Still sounds great today!

The RX5 just needs some more processing but it still can sound great in a modern mix.

NLind Yes, good catch - I had loaded a DX7 II bank by mistake :) and liked how it sounded, so I used it for this video

SynthMania So the DX7(Mk2) CLAVIBRASS loaded into the DX7(Mk1)?!

+monsterjazzlicks You can load them to DX7.

cgereu Thanks CG.

+monsterjazzlicks Sure!!, There is really not much difference, all single sounds could be exchanged, since DX7II was designed to be compatible with original DX7 sounds. A good way to organize your sounds and banks is to use DEXED VST/AU. I use it to preview sounds, copy them between banks and create custom banks. Than on MAC I just send them to DX7IIFD or TX802 with SNOIZE SysEx Librarian. Everything works great that way.

for real ??? prince and cameo ??? if thats tru then im starting to pay more atention to the hadious rx5

I am also very interested about this question. DX7 really shines with a little support from external effects, always.

***** The preamps and EQ are from a Soundcraft Series 1600 console; there's a very small amount of EQ on the drum machine, and no eq on the DX7 at all; there's also some very light compression from SoundForge at 2:1 with 500ms attack. There are no other effects as I recorded this in ten mins.

All right, thank you! I guess I will have to start looking into compression, that really seems to make a big difference.

***** As far as i know RU-vid also does a bit of compression

MinimalWave1982 Do you mean dynamic compression? I did not know that!

I believe so

Many thanks.

:^)

+Diego Huijbregts What do you mean by "add together"? There's no MIDI in this video, I'm just playing the DX7 live on top of live running RX5 patterns. If you want to control the RX5 from the DX7, run DX7 MIDI Out to RX5 MIDI In, and viceversa if you want to control the DX7 from the RX5

+SynthMania okay thank you.

Sorry for being dumber than dumb. Of course I just needed to link them both to a mixer, and hook it up to my speakers. Using an 80's Boss mixer, 16 channel, with these baby's. (I have some more laying around here, effect processors and piano modules.)

RX5 12bit goodness.