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My new DX200, worth it?
 

offline Aesthetics from the IDM Kiosk on 2004-02-26 14:59 [#01090659]
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what do you music makers out there think about it?
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offline Ceri JC from Jefferson City (United States) on 2004-02-26 15:02 [#01090665]
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Not heard it, looks like a groovebox type thing, yes?

 

offline Ceri JC from Jefferson City (United States) on 2004-02-26 15:04 [#01090669]
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One google later..

Introduction
Many of you will have no doubt heard the apocryphal tale
relating how something like 99% of all the DX7's returned to
Yamaha's service department had all their presets intact
with nary a tweak carried out. Now, the more charitable
among us might point out that the presets were so wonderful
that there was little point in writing your own, but the
truth of the matter is that the thing was such a pig to
program that most gave up in despair and just used the
presets. Endless rows of buttons, a data entry slider and a
tiny screen do not a user-friendly synth make, but give it a
bunch of knobs and a software editor and you're sorted.
That's just what Yamaha have done with the new DX200 - FM
synthesis gets a makeover and not before time.
The DX200 is, in fact, one of the Yamaha desktop Loop
Factory range alongside the SU200 and AN200 so as well as
being a 16 voice polyphonic source of FM sounds it's also
got a four-track 16-step pattern sequencer that can run
three tracks of the onboard sample-based drum/percussion
sounds alongside the synth track, plus effects and a whole
bunch of performance tricks.

Ah, nice DX7 emulation... is there a way of linking it up to
a pc/mac to load in FM7/DX7 patches?


 

offline Aesthetics from the IDM Kiosk on 2004-02-26 15:11 [#01090685]
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I will get it tomorrow, and you can link it to the pc with
Midi.

a friend of mine use it in combination with a Juno and an
Oberheim, and that is a good combination.



 

offline Zephyr Twin from ΔΔΔ on 2004-02-26 16:13 [#01090797]
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I've heard good things about the 'working-with-it' side of
it, but to be honest the sound demos I heard weren't really
up to par with what I'm used to.. Of course, in conjunction
with some good analog synths like you friend has, it would
be a nice addition to any studio.


 

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