Glad I was able to help!
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I actually just tested this a few days ago. Loading the same EPIANO 1 patch into Arturia's DX, Dexed, and PX7 I notice that PX7's sounds duller and less lively than the others. I had to tweak the PX7 to match the other two and I still couldn't get it to sound "right". PX7 sounded the worst to me. Try it for yourself and see. Of course that was just one patch so who knows if the others are similar. But anyway, that made me drop PX7 from my rack and switch to Dexed for all FM duties.
I'm not sure how it compares to the original DX7, but one of the things I like about PX7 as compared to Dexed are the macro controls, and how I can quickly adjust a sound. As well as the operator pan, which I think is unique to PX7. Although the opinions you point out in another thread does have me wanting key tracking for pan. Can you do that with Dexed or Arturia's DX7?hurricane wrote: ↑05 Mar 2019I actually just tested this a few days ago. Loading the same EPIANO 1 patch into Arturia's DX, Dexed, and PX7 I notice that PX7's sounds duller and less lively than the others. I had to tweak the PX7 to match the other two and I still couldn't get it to sound "right". PX7 sounded the worst to me. Try it for yourself and see. Of course that was just one patch so who knows if the others are similar. But anyway, that made me drop PX7 from my rack and switch to Dexed for all FM duties.
Wow! Thx for sharinghurricane wrote: ↑05 Mar 2019I actually just tested this a few days ago. Loading the same EPIANO 1 patch into Arturia's DX, Dexed, and PX7 I notice that PX7's sounds duller and less lively than the others. I had to tweak the PX7 to match the other two and I still couldn't get it to sound "right". PX7 sounded the worst to me. Try it for yourself and see. Of course that was just one patch so who knows if the others are similar. But anyway, that made me drop PX7 from my rack and switch to Dexed for all FM duties.
I'll have to check it out. Curious how some of my favorite patches sound when loaded into others. For instance, I wouldn't want 'Revinette' to sound any different, or 'FM Growth' and plenty of others to sound different than how they play in PX7. I guess it comes down to preference as you mention and what you might expect to hear.hurricane wrote: ↑06 Mar 2019Testing things out more out of curiosity, - you can really hear the difference when testing out DX7 factory patch STRINGS 1 across all 3 instruments. Dexed sounds great, Arturia's sounds great and almost exactly like Dexed when you switch the velocity to FULL, but PX7 - man, the patch sounds bad and when you tweak the velocity, the sound falls apart.
Curious to hear what Bitley thinks. But after he actually compares Dexed to PX7, of course.
They don't sound slight to me. I'll be posting a PX7 vs Dexed demo shortly for you all to hear.
Yeah I can hear the difference. I got them to be much closer to the same by either adjusting PX7's Touch slider down or increasing the velocity in the sequencer for PX7. So I guess much of it might just come down to how it's played and how the plugins play differently?
I can relate, the DX7 is a most beautiful construction and so are the other ones in the series. Built like tanks – as opposed to Casio's built like Honda Civics approach I think you'd be surprised how close all of these are (except the noise level which is higher on the hardware synth). The og DX7 only uses velocity levels up to 108 at max so the theory in recent GS discussions is that Yamaha decided the midi spec for it to be this way because it would sound too bright above 108... perhaps a kind of stupid way to do it instead of editing the patches but maybe they didn't know how (as sound programmers were different ppl than the instrument designers & expensive consultants from abroad and lost in translation at that).hurricane wrote: ↑07 Mar 2019All this DX talk has convinced me to get a DX keyboard, so I am currently looking into that and expect to get something in the next two weeks. I'be always wanted one and it would let me hear for myself how accurate Dexed, DX7V, and PX7 are, but particularly the PX7. A DX7 Mark I would be a perfect friend to my Casio CZ-1, and even though I also have the software version (PB's Virtual CZ) and it's very very close, I still prefer using the real CZ. Some patches are spot on, but others have clear differences, and I would say they differ more than they match. My guess is it will be the same with a real DX7. I'd be surprised if Dexed nails the sound 1-1. Expecting the PX7 to have the most trouble matching it. Does it really matter? No, but I want to know. And I also just want to use a real DX for the history of it all.
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