Koto is the exact patch used on Kyoto by The Cure. When I bought my DX7, the first thing I did was load up that patch and jammed along to the original song. So cool to have the exact sound they used on the album.
@@stuffedpeppersinc.andmore.1221 The bell sounds are absolutely gorgeous on that synth. You hear the bell sounds and you always know where they come from.
0:15 - Bass 1, used in Janet Jackson - When I Think Of You (Album: Control) for bass loop. 8:45 - Refs Whisl, used as an effect for New Kids On The Block - Hangin' Tough (Album: Hangin' Tough)
@@TransistorBased A guy once said i married my hobby because a divorce is cheaper and i get to keep everything. So getting married multiple times has its benefits. All the best.
Hang on, I've got my Dexed program open, I'll go to that preset. Just find the right note...holy shit, that really is the starting bell sound from Taker's theme. :O
Internal sound 15- YESSS!!! HOWARD JONES! Phil Collins, A-Ha, St. Elmo's Fire, love Breakout! Fretless Bass- Yep, Take My Breath Away, Higher Love by Steve Winwood. Clavinet sound, totally rad! I think the vibes sound was also used by Billy Joel on This is the Time, plus Higher Love by Steve Winwood Koto- have heard that one used with Phil Collins, Live to Tell by Madonna Voice/choir sound, definitely heard Phil Collins use that! One More Night, Long Long Way to Go. In Too Deep as well. I wonder if Brian Eno used the DX7 on the Microsoft Sound.
What makes the DX7 so famous was the electric piano. That until the day today, is considered the sound ever. You should investigate on Robbie Buchanan.
@ about a year ago after playing only guitar & some horns for 50 years, I’m 61 now. I’ve picked up piano. Now that I’m retired. That didn’t stop me from buying one of these back in late 80’s early 90’s. Wish I still had it. And you’ve certainly did a better job without a sustain pedal than I would have.
Greg, more piano players should try keeping their feet away from the sustain pedal. Try to think about it less in terms of a piano down in Oregon, which traditionally doesn’t have any sustain systems. As an aside, I read a couple of years ago that when Mike Rutherford first had to play guitar for Genesis in the early 70s, Tony Banks learned how to play bass pedals. He later commented that playing without a sustain pedal improved his piano playing technique.
Did whomever installed those mods look to the JX8P as a reference? That synthesizer is analog, however its interface is closely modeled on that of the DX7. You’ve got the same 32 preset switches on the front, but you’ve also got a bank selector for accessing two additional sets of 32.
haha this #31 train patch .. i found that one SO funny when i was a little kid taking some home organ lessons and the teacher had this DX7 in her room .. and some months later there was my very first public performance with other students from the organ school playing händels sarabande in d minor .. and in lack of organs for everyone i was granted to play on that DX7. and i was told to use patch #11 :))
The Atari FM chip featured in many of their mid-80’s games with stereo sound. So what I’m saying is: put on that pipe organ patch and play the theme music to Gauntlet & Gauntlet II!
Back in the eighties, I get to regularly play on a DX-1. Loved it. Someone in our church congregation donated it, but sadly, someone or several someones (the beast was really heavy) stole it. Our other keyboards (not necessarily all at the same time) were a Korg DSS -1, a Roland Jupiter 8, and a Korg DW-5000. We had briefly another Roland keyboard but I can't remember the model. Great fun! I really liked the DSS-1. Once when no one was around, I took a microphone, plugged it into the back of the instrument and sampled my voice shouting "DON'T TOUCH THIS KEYBOARD OR FACE THE WRATH OF GOD."" I added lots of delay to the sample. Then I set the dample to not to change pitch over the entire keyboard and set the playback mode to play the entire sample at the slightest touch of the keyboard. Then I left the Dss-1 turned on, and I walked away. Great fun as well!
I also had a DSS-1! A fantastic sampler/Synth that really was stronger in the synth department, since it only had 256 kB (yes K not M kids) of memory that could be used for samples. To me it was more of a great synth where it could produce real waveforms (not sampled), you could draw your own waveforms. It had some kind of additive synthesis if I remember correctly, too. And it had a great, great sounding analogue filter (which is rare on a sampler). Plus it could put all the voices in unison which made up for the fattest sound on the planet at the time. And it got two digital delays (Which could make some quite good pseudo-reverb sounds. But also some unbelievably fat chorus sounds). It sounded totally unique. I also remember reading that it was used when the Korg M1 was being in development. This is something that Woody should check out. I bought mine used in Sweden in about 1990/91 (sold it a year or two later), so they probably can be found still today where he is. But I'm not sure if the prices have gone up (bought mine) Absolutely unique sound! Bear in mind though, that the presets in floppies that came with it were very uninspiring. You must create your own sounds via synthesis to get the great sounds out of this synth! (And woody mostly seems to be into presets)
FYI, the original DX7 has 16 voices - unless “stacked” by the E! Mod for the DX, then it’s 8 voices. Add a chorus & reverb stomps, and, some of the sounds are jaw dropping.
7:03 - That patch is world famous for the bell sound on the Taco Bell commercials and an octave lower it's the ominous bell for pro wrestling's The Undertaker. I actually have that as a ring tone on my cell phone. 🙂
That was Rupert Hine, DXing on the Tina Turner stuff. Koto heard in Loggins' "Meet Me Halfway" and MSM "Can't Stay Away From You". That Axel F thing is mainly the Marimba patch, not the one played here.
Nice posts Woody. Love the DX7 myself and have a large collection of patches - including the Yamaha ROMS 1 thru 4 and a couple of aftermarket ROMs from Bo Tomlyn. By the way: The polyphony is 16. Each ROM cart has two banks of 32 accessible with an A/B switch that maps each bank to the 32 buttons on the front panel. So, with a cartridge in place, you have 64 total sounds immediately at the ready between Internal and Cartridge plus another 32 after switching the toggle on the cart and hitting the Cartridge button again for 96 total.
that's cool. you have the patches on the cartridges or are you loading via midi? i have the two that shipped with the instrument and use midi for the rest. thanks for clearing up the memory capacity, was a bit mixed up on the video :)
at first i thought that would be a cool accessory, to have 8 banks of sounds, but then I realised the appeal of the DX7 for me is the limited number of sounds, no wading through hundreds of presets like with modern synths :)
You can load DX7 patches into a Korg Kronos and they will be automatically picked up by the MOD-7 engine. It's easy. The "factory" ones in this vid are something like "DX7ROM1A" on the internet. I was literally going through the patches in order with this vid on my Kronos and they match perfectly. Maybe side by side with a real DX7 you could tell the difference, but they sounded the same to me. Worth bearing in mind if you want to cover any iconic tunes that used the DX7 and unlike a real DX7 you can make a split combi and get different patches across the keyboard and really nail that Howard Jones cover live :) Happy retro keyboarding everyone. x
I am truly enjoying seeing the DX in the limelight on youtube especially being a vintage keyboard relative to today's electronics. If you could, please bring on more video and if possible, please showcase the DX7S, and the DX7FD as well. I have those and about the floppy drive, I never used it and was wondering how to use it but never researched. THANK YOU for all you are doing! It's very cool indeed!
Hi Woody! I really enjoy your videos and enthusiasm. I'm an 80's guy, and this takes me back to the days of first discovering these synths. If you haven't already done so, I'd love to hear some demos of the DX7 cartridge sounds. Thanks! - Mike V.
The basses are great. The cold, metal sound of the digital FM synthesis! As fan of the OPL (YM2812/SOUNDBLASTER) and OPN (YM2612/MEGADRIVE GENESIS) the sound at 0:25 is like playing good ol' MS-DOS games or SONIC 2 or something like that :-)
Thanks for sharing this 👏 Love the DX7, love mine added with amazing HyperSynth HD-701 ROM/RAM card & TC Electronic M100 effects unit 👍 Mythical synth, mythical 80' 👏🙏 The best for 2021 😉
The flute sound I believe was also used by Harold faltermeyer on the Beverly Hills cop 2 soundtrack. I am pretty sure as it sound similar. Listen to the oils field scenes.
I had one back in the day...it came with an instructional cassette, "The DX Zone." Narration was meant to sound like Rod Serling...bizarre! You can find it on UA-cam.
Excellent video ! Really enjoyed it ...so many great back songs from back then. Always a pleasure to recap Really Nice sounds in that synth Thanks for sharing....suscribed!
The two other sounds i really like on the DX7 i didn’t hear in this one, or in a few other videos I’ve seen on it. One is the panpipe-ish sound you hear on “sadeness” from enigma, the other is the flute sound you hear on “cuts both ways” by Gloria estefan. Knowing my luck those are other keyboards. 🙄 lol
LOL, I own the PX7 RE in Reason (which is a DX-7 clone), but I never realized that Preset #15 is THAT Howard Jones bass. So cool. Thanks for the hint :D !!
After watching your DX-7 vs DeXed shootout, decided to play along with your Famous Sounds videos. Amazing how close it comes. Ah, technology. Still would love to have bought a DX-7 the first time I saw one in the music store in the mid-80s. (But then again, didn't have the $$ at that time.) These are great demo videos!! Subscribed.
I’ve heard that whistle sound used to great effect in a very famous 80’s track. It’s definitely a DX, it’s using the lately bass for sure. Also a very bright brass patch. A very lively song. I can’t remember it right now though. It’s evoking a kind of Brazilian parade. It’s funky.
@@DaraM73 You may be right. I never measured the processor burden. I use Windows mostly for music and Linux for other tasks. I have the limited Cubase Elements which I use sparingly. I bounce (record) plugin tracks and disable them so I never use many plugins at the same time. Since I owned a DX-7, I tried Dexed and other plugins (on linux and windows). The Arturia plugins offers more.
Is there a way to tell if a track from 1983 - 1987 features DX7 or Emulator? Emu kind of steals from DX7 sounds so I am not 100% sure for a lot of tunes.
"What is love" and so many great tunes played with the infamous DX 7. Nothing to compare with todays music scene. Technology misses creativity nowdays when you have a look in the past.
Nice Vid, btw the Reface DX has 16 note polyphony, the same as the 8 bit DX7, not sure about the DX7 Mk2 as that has a cleaner sounding 16 bit architecture but not sure whether it is 16 or 32 note poly. The new Reface series are fantastic esp if you hook them up to a decent slave keyboard, the CS is bloody amazing!!!
Great coverage of the original DX7 presets, I own a DX7 mark 2 which I love, but I have not been able to track down the patches from any of the rom carts from the DX7 mk1 But I'd love to hear them for sure :)
Hello, I just received a DX7 and it's my first synth. It gave me the battery warning, and none of the internal patches load, but I can load from the cartridges. I'm happy with that! Pitchbend works great, but I can't get the mod wheel to do anything with any of the patches. Any ideas what I should do? Thanks!
Hi Woody, i just bought a modx 7 and installed the patches from the dx7 on base of your video load dx7 patches. It works perfect. If you have sounds for the other patches from the rom‘s it wopuld be Great. thnx! Greetings Abbe
Ryan Sheridan it's not at all difficult, just dump the sysex into it. They're completely compatible. For some of these, they updated the sounds on the mkII. E. Piano 1 -> Full Tines, for instance.
Guess i'll be comment #1. Very interesting sounds, not sure what i would do with a freight train running through my house! If you decide to make another video showing off the cartridges and additional sounds, i'm all ears. Thanks for sharing. By the way, are any of those on the S970? Cheers from the USA.
thanks Mike. i think the purpose of freight train was to demonstrate sounds that no other synth could produce at the time!! :) will check out the other carts for you. any of what on the S970? dx7 patches? no, not really, only poor sampled imitations.
Yes, I did enjoy listening to those old sounds. No combs to speak of, but interesting all the same. How much did this cost back in 1983? And, I'm sure we're all curious as to the other sounds you have on cartridge.
Woody Piano Shack sorry Woody, damn autocorrect, that should have said "Combi's" as in what Korg uses for multi's. Only meant it jokingly, as keyboards were only single voice in those days!
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Yamaha dx7 bells were mind-blowing when I was playing it for the first time back in 2023. And this bass is so powerful. I love that synth so much.
You could play the entire Top Gun-soundtrack with this.
The DX7 Tubular bells are one of the sounds that made the DX7 famous, being used everywhere-From the Top Gun theme to Taco Bell commercials.
Koto is the exact patch used on Kyoto by The Cure. When I bought my DX7, the first thing I did was load up that patch and jammed along to the original song. So cool to have the exact sound they used on the album.
You're right it is cool and you feel like a pop star doing it.
tubular bells will always be my favorite out of the original presets. especially the lower octaves.
KUPHSER After I found out that the DX7 did the bell sounds on Do They Know It's Christmas, I have always wanted to own a DX7.
Tubular Bells is my favorite sound in the world
@@stuffedpeppersinc.andmore.1221 The bell sounds are absolutely gorgeous on that synth.
You hear the bell sounds and you always know where they come from.
The first sound bass was included in the Sega genesis as part of the yamaha chip that it had thats why I love genesis soo much
Yeah pretty recognizable from Sonic!
You have to love this guy as he's the reason us musicians live off noodles.
Its a good job we love you Woody.
0:15 - Bass 1, used in Janet Jackson - When I Think Of You (Album: Control) for bass loop.
8:45 - Refs Whisl, used as an effect for New Kids On The Block - Hangin' Tough (Album: Hangin' Tough)
Bass 1 was used in dangerzone Kenny loggins
The tubular bells sound is my favorite. It sounds so deep and bassy. It was also by harold faltermeyer in the top gun anthem.
I love that one too and it always makes me think of Christmas. Lol
The first bass sound is also famous for Kenny Loggins "Danger Zone".
It's also in "Push It" by Salt n Pepa.
Ahh danger zone. Two classic bass sounds used in Top Gun.
Broken wings by Mr Mister
I anticipated it but it never came. :(
And A-ha Touchy, Never gonna give you up...
I wouldn't be lying if I said you're the main inspiration behind me buying a DX7..
This guy is the reason for musicians living on pot noodles. 👀
Have to admit it. have mine also
@@darrenhirst9900 that's more down to multiple expensive hobbies
Finaly I know why I bought it
@@TransistorBased A guy once said i married my hobby because a divorce is cheaper and i get to keep everything.
So getting married multiple times has its benefits.
All the best.
My high point was the Howard Jones bass. That bass is iconic!
He came to do a set at our town festival...BRILLIANT!
aweomse. cool that the sound was familiar to you.
That base patch is my fav one of the DX7.
Kool and the gang used the dx7 bass on the song you are the one, and many more, great iconic synth one of the best of all time
Also on Misled iirc
Tubular Bells can still be heard today in the Taco Bell commercials as well as the opening bells in The Undertaker's entrance theme.
a much cooler use was by Siouxsie And The Banshees - Cities In Dust
Was messing with one today and wondered, as it sounded just like Taco Bell's little ding!
NLind Tubular Bells Top Gun intro ftw! i had a cover of that. 😁😂😂
Old school Voltron cartoons used tubular bells as well.
Hang on, I've got my Dexed program open, I'll go to that preset. Just find the right note...holy shit, that really is the starting bell sound from Taker's theme. :O
Internal sound 15- YESSS!!! HOWARD JONES! Phil Collins, A-Ha, St. Elmo's Fire, love Breakout!
Fretless Bass- Yep, Take My Breath Away, Higher Love by Steve Winwood.
Clavinet sound, totally rad!
I think the vibes sound was also used by Billy Joel on This is the Time, plus Higher Love by Steve Winwood
Koto- have heard that one used with Phil Collins, Live to Tell by Madonna
Voice/choir sound, definitely heard Phil Collins use that! One More Night, Long Long Way to Go. In Too Deep as well.
I wonder if Brian Eno used the DX7 on the Microsoft Sound.
I was here for the Berlin bass. I'm only 27, but I absolutely love that timbre every since I was a little kid.
What makes the DX7 so famous was the electric piano. That until the day today, is considered the sound ever. You should investigate on Robbie Buchanan.
Tina Turner used the DX7 ROM 3A Harmonica 1 preset for the solo on 'What's Love Got to Do With It.'
@ about a year ago after playing only guitar & some horns for 50 years, I’m 61 now. I’ve picked up piano. Now that I’m retired. That didn’t stop me from buying one of these back in late 80’s early 90’s. Wish I still had it. And you’ve certainly did a better job without a sustain pedal than I would have.
Greg, more piano players should try keeping their feet away from the sustain pedal. Try to think about it less in terms of a piano down in Oregon, which traditionally doesn’t have any sustain systems. As an aside, I read a couple of years ago that when Mike Rutherford first had to play guitar for Genesis in the early 70s, Tony Banks learned how to play bass pedals. He later commented that playing without a sustain pedal improved his piano playing technique.
5years ago. And this video still rocks.
Polyphony is 16 voices. I miss my old DX7 and it had Frankenstein mods too for additional internal banks.
Did whomever installed those mods look to the JX8P as a reference? That synthesizer is analog, however its interface is closely modeled on that of the DX7. You’ve got the same 32 preset switches on the front, but you’ve also got a bank selector for accessing two additional sets of 32.
Really enjoy this channel,, fun and playful. Good times and sounds.
haha this #31 train patch .. i found that one SO funny when i was a little kid taking some home organ lessons and the teacher had this DX7 in her room .. and some months later there was my very first public performance with other students from the organ school playing händels sarabande in d minor .. and in lack of organs for everyone i was granted to play on that DX7. and i was told to use patch #11 :))
cool story, cheers!
The train sound is in 'The Heat is On'!!! I just caught it while watching Beverly Hills Cop
Fucking LOVE that FM Bass, it's so appealing
it's so great isn't it!
The Atari FM chip featured in many of their mid-80’s games with stereo sound. So what I’m saying is: put on that pipe organ patch and play the theme music to Gauntlet & Gauntlet II!
Man that bass never gets old
The Orchestral Chimes heard at 6:20 can be heard extensively on the Rush song Territories from the Power Windows albums.
Good ear, man.
Back in the eighties, I get to regularly play on a DX-1. Loved it. Someone in our church congregation donated it, but sadly, someone or several someones (the beast was really heavy) stole it. Our other keyboards (not necessarily all at the same time) were a Korg DSS -1, a Roland Jupiter 8, and a Korg DW-5000. We had briefly another Roland keyboard but I can't remember the model. Great fun! I really liked the DSS-1. Once when no one was around, I took a microphone, plugged it into the back of the instrument and sampled my voice shouting "DON'T TOUCH THIS KEYBOARD OR FACE THE WRATH OF GOD."" I added lots of delay to the sample. Then I set the dample to not to change pitch over the entire keyboard and set the playback mode to play the entire sample at the slightest touch of the keyboard. Then I left the Dss-1 turned on, and I walked away. Great fun as well!
you could hove lots of fun with early samplers, just hearing your voice pitched up and down was hilarious!
I also had a DSS-1! A fantastic sampler/Synth that really was stronger in the synth department, since it only had 256 kB (yes K not M kids) of memory that could be used for samples. To me it was more of a great synth where it could produce real waveforms (not sampled), you could draw your own waveforms. It had some kind of additive synthesis if I remember correctly, too. And it had a great, great sounding analogue filter (which is rare on a sampler). Plus it could put all the voices in unison which made up for the fattest sound on the planet at the time. And it got two digital delays (Which could make some quite good pseudo-reverb sounds. But also some unbelievably fat chorus sounds).
It sounded totally unique. I also remember reading that it was used when the Korg M1 was being in development.
This is something that Woody should check out. I bought mine used in Sweden in about 1990/91 (sold it a year or two later), so they probably can be found still today where he is. But I'm not sure if the prices have gone up (bought mine)
Absolutely unique sound!
Bear in mind though, that the presets in floppies that came with it were very uninspiring. You must create your own sounds via synthesis to get the great sounds out of this synth! (And woody mostly seems to be into presets)
A Dx-1 was donated?!?! There are only 200 made and were ultra expensive!!
FYI, the original DX7 has 16 voices - unless “stacked” by the E! Mod for the DX, then it’s 8 voices. Add a chorus & reverb stomps, and, some of the sounds are jaw dropping.
7:03 - That patch is world famous for the bell sound on the Taco Bell commercials and an octave lower it's the ominous bell for pro wrestling's The Undertaker. I actually have that as a ring tone on my cell phone. 🙂
very good video...dx7 was and still being an amazing machine....love that bells sound....completly beautyfull...greets!!
That was Rupert Hine, DXing on the Tina Turner stuff. Koto heard in Loggins' "Meet Me Halfway" and MSM "Can't Stay Away From You". That Axel F thing is mainly the Marimba patch, not the one played here.
Tina Turner used the DX7 ROM 3A Harmonica 1 preset for the solo on 'What's Love Got to Do With It.'
I used that bass sound in my 2014 song "Rush for Silence", but it was played on the DX7 IIFD
That first sound is just so 80s TV and Movies in general
i love the sound of that dx
I know it's almost 3 years old, but: the Yamaha Reface DX has 8 voice polyphony.
Nice posts Woody. Love the DX7 myself and have a large collection of patches - including the Yamaha ROMS 1 thru 4 and a couple of aftermarket ROMs from Bo Tomlyn.
By the way: The polyphony is 16. Each ROM cart has two banks of 32 accessible with an A/B switch that maps each bank to the 32 buttons on the front panel. So, with a cartridge in place, you have 64 total sounds immediately at the ready between Internal and Cartridge plus another 32 after switching the toggle on the cart and hitting the Cartridge button again for 96 total.
that's cool. you have the patches on the cartridges or are you loading via midi? i have the two that shipped with the instrument and use midi for the rest. thanks for clearing up the memory capacity, was a bit mixed up on the video :)
Some of both - and BTW, I just saw a DX7/5 RAM cartridge on ebay that has 8 banks of 32
at first i thought that would be a cool accessory, to have 8 banks of sounds, but then I realised the appeal of the DX7 for me is the limited number of sounds, no wading through hundreds of presets like with modern synths :)
Tubular Bells and Harold Faltermeyer are great for the DX7. Awesome review. Take care, Sam.
You can load DX7 patches into a Korg Kronos and they will be automatically picked up by the MOD-7 engine. It's easy. The "factory" ones in this vid are something like "DX7ROM1A" on the internet. I was literally going through the patches in order with this vid on my Kronos and they match perfectly. Maybe side by side with a real DX7 you could tell the difference, but they sounded the same to me. Worth bearing in mind if you want to cover any iconic tunes that used the DX7 and unlike a real DX7 you can make a split combi and get different patches across the keyboard and really nail that Howard Jones cover live :) Happy retro keyboarding everyone. x
that's a nice feature of the kronos for sure, thx!
Yes, please do the cartridges. Loving your presentation!
thx, appreciate it! ok, will dig into those carts, but have some D50 and NLA1 stuff to cover first... :) it's nice with choices.
When you said that you wasnt so sure of the polyphony of this Synth, this Synth has 16 notes polyphony
Hope this helps :)
the organ part reminds me of an 80's cafeteria, with the black and white checker tiles with neon lights and such
I am truly enjoying seeing the DX in the limelight on youtube especially being a vintage keyboard relative to today's electronics. If you could, please bring on more video and if possible, please showcase the DX7S, and the DX7FD as well. I have those and about the floppy drive, I never used it and was wondering how to use it but never researched. THANK YOU for all you are doing! It's very cool indeed!
Really enjoyed this Woody. Thanks for doing it. Been watching a lot of your stuff recently and its all great!
Hi Woody! I really enjoy your videos and enthusiasm. I'm an 80's guy, and this takes me back to the days of first discovering these synths. If you haven't already done so, I'd love to hear some demos of the DX7 cartridge sounds. Thanks! - Mike V.
make sure you catch my demo where we revisit these patches on the MODX!
The train one sounded like it could have been used by Devo in Working in a coal mine.
I've always loved the ep sound of the dx7
I would like to here the of the dx 7 cartridges. I have enjoyed what I have see so far
I hear that solid bass patch and all I can hear are the opening notes to Kenny Loggins Danger Zone
The basses are great. The cold, metal sound of the digital FM synthesis!
As fan of the OPL (YM2812/SOUNDBLASTER) and OPN (YM2612/MEGADRIVE GENESIS) the sound at 0:25 is like playing good ol' MS-DOS games or SONIC 2 or something like that :-)
you are hilarious! i am buying this thing today!
Thanks for sharing this 👏
Love the DX7, love mine added with amazing HyperSynth HD-701 ROM/RAM card & TC Electronic M100 effects unit 👍
Mythical synth, mythical 80' 👏🙏
The best for 2021 😉
you had the bass preset at first for danger zone. the "wow" you were mentioning for take my breath away is in the song, too.
The flute sound I believe was also used by Harold faltermeyer on the Beverly Hills cop 2 soundtrack. I am pretty sure as it sound similar. Listen to the oils field scenes.
Why didn't you use the flute to play Land Down Under? Such a missed opportunity!
yeah, you're right, occurred to me as well
I think that sound was used for the pre-verse riff in Howard Jones' "What Is Love".
I believe he's playing riffs that were actually recorded using the DX7 in the studio.
Coz he'll get sued....
the train sound was used on Miles Davis "MD1/Something's On Your Mind/MD2" on the album "you're under arrest"
I had one back in the day...it came with an instructional cassette, "The DX Zone." Narration was meant to sound like Rod Serling...bizarre! You can find it on UA-cam.
Excellent video ! Really enjoyed it ...so many great back songs from back then. Always a pleasure to recap
Really
Nice sounds in that synth
Thanks for sharing....suscribed!
That Koto sound was used in Mason+Fenn's 1985 single Lie for a Lie featuring David Gilmour.
hi Woody
I love the bass in your left hand...I'm really jealous 😤😡😁😂😉great next demo.
have a great evening.
Daro
thanks Daro, jealous of the bass sound or my hand? not sure, but happy for the comment anyway :) take care.
lovely video
5:30 can you tell me where is this tune from?
For reference, the Reface DX has 8 note polyphony (and 4 operators), whilst the DX7 had 16 note polyphony (and 6 operators).
thanks for clarifying!
The two other sounds i really like on the DX7 i didn’t hear in this one, or in a few other videos I’ve seen on it. One is the panpipe-ish sound you hear on “sadeness” from enigma, the other is the flute sound you hear on “cuts both ways” by Gloria estefan. Knowing my luck those are other keyboards. 🙄 lol
i got a hunch that enigma were using fairlight samples, not DX7.
@@WoodyPianoShack what about the two-tone flute sound in cuts both ways?
@@WoodyPianoShack the sound was also used in a cutscene in “to live and die in LA” from 85.
LOL, I own the PX7 RE in Reason (which is a DX-7 clone), but I never realized that Preset #15 is THAT Howard Jones bass. So cool. Thanks for the hint :D !!
Ahh love these old synths.....
The flute on this was used on El debarge rhythm of the night 1985 great synth and tune
Funny enough that the organ preset of the DX7 reminds me on the famous Korg M1 Organ 2 preset . They sound almost the same .
i think the m1 sampled it
You can really make these keyboards talk!
The whistle(extra extra reads all about it, headlines)classic 80's breaks songs
you think so? that's pretty cool, maybe not as useless as I thought.
Yep :)
That was fun I will need to convert some of them for my MoDX.
After watching your DX-7 vs DeXed shootout, decided to play along with your Famous Sounds videos. Amazing how close it comes. Ah, technology. Still would love to have bought a DX-7 the first time I saw one in the music store in the mid-80s. (But then again, didn't have the $$ at that time.) These are great demo videos!! Subscribed.
I’ve heard that whistle sound used to great effect in a very famous 80’s track. It’s definitely a DX, it’s using the lately bass for sure. Also a very bright brass patch. A very lively song. I can’t remember it right now though.
It’s evoking a kind of Brazilian parade. It’s funky.
The bell sound at 7.08 really reminded me of the original Band Aid song....do you know if that was a DX7?
octomonkey1980 Yup! That was a DX7.
I saw a video on the Live Aid DVD documentary and they also used a PPG Wave 2
There's an interesting sound bank designed by Larry Hopkins for the Arturia DX-7. Beautiful presets!
ross minet Arturia’s software is very processor heavy though.
@@DaraM73
You may be right. I never measured the processor burden. I use Windows mostly for music and Linux for other tasks.
I have the limited Cubase Elements which I use sparingly. I bounce (record) plugin tracks and disable them so I never use many plugins at the same time. Since I owned a DX-7, I tried Dexed and other plugins (on linux and windows). The Arturia plugins offers more.
love it , thank you woody
Thanks.
Still got my DX after 30 years... always preferred the warmth of the analog sounds though....
i was surprised how warm some of the synth string sounds were when processed with a bit of reverb. i guess a lot of the lushness comes from the verb.
Thanks! Many cool sounds!
Those dark bells are so Skinny Puppy.
Is there a way to tell if a track from 1983 - 1987 features DX7 or Emulator? Emu kind of steals from DX7 sounds so I am not 100% sure for a lot of tunes.
"What is love" and so many great tunes played with the infamous DX 7. Nothing to compare with todays music scene. Technology misses creativity nowdays when you have a look in the past.
that sound at 8:32 can is also in The Alan Parsons Project's Stereotomy intro
Nice Vid, btw the Reface DX has 16 note polyphony, the same as the 8 bit DX7, not sure about the DX7 Mk2 as that has a cleaner sounding 16 bit architecture but not sure whether it is 16 or 32 note poly.
The new Reface series are fantastic esp if you hook them up to a decent slave keyboard, the CS is bloody amazing!!!
Reface is only 8 note polyphony, and only 4 operators per note. the DX7 is not an 8-bit machine btw. The DAC is 14-bit.
Howard Jones likely used the DX7 for the bass but the melody was on a different synth..
A lot of the other stuff on that album was a Jupiter 8.
Really enjoyed that
Hey Woody.....
LOVE dat outro theme, man!
Let it play longer, brother.
FOLKZ.....
Woody dservez donationz!!!
that bass was on Michael Jackson's Another Part of me! and its my favorite bass in the world
It certainly was. AWESOME SOUND.
Great coverage of the original DX7 presets, I own a DX7 mark 2 which I love, but I have not been able to track down the patches from any of the rom carts from the DX7 mk1 But I'd love to hear them for sure :)
send me your email addy and I'll send you a drop box link. I have the original 4 roms in sysex format plus other patches.
Hi @syzgywell May I request them as well please? I have a TX7 and they will sound great. My email: nigel at nsutcliffe dot co dot uk
that's cool of syzygywell. otherwise surf to dexed vst home page, there is a link there to a zip file containing every DX soundbank known to man.
yeah or that!
Its all cool i ended up finding them.
Would love to hear the other cartridges!
Hello, I just received a DX7 and it's my first synth. It gave me the battery warning, and none of the internal patches load, but I can load from the cartridges. I'm happy with that! Pitchbend works great, but I can't get the mod wheel to do anything with any of the patches. Any ideas what I should do? Thanks!
Hi Woody, i just bought a modx 7 and installed the patches from the dx7 on base of your video load dx7 patches. It works perfect. If you have sounds for the other patches from the rom‘s it wopuld be Great. thnx! Greetings Abbe
download the "dx7 best of the web" from bobby blues for thousands of patches.
Jesus Woody, you’re a brilliant keyboard player.
ah shucks, i'm competent and a good bluffer :)
Awesome demo
Why aren’t these iconic sounds on the DX7 II?
Ryan Sheridan it's not at all difficult, just dump the sysex into it. They're completely compatible. For some of these, they updated the sounds on the mkII. E. Piano 1 -> Full Tines, for instance.
Seria bueno que mencione que instrumentos virtuales usa para poder usarlos Gracias
4:22 = epically cool!
Guess i'll be comment #1. Very interesting sounds, not sure what i would do with a freight train running through my house! If you decide to make another video showing off the cartridges and additional sounds, i'm all ears. Thanks for sharing. By the way, are any of those on the S970? Cheers from the USA.
thanks Mike. i think the purpose of freight train was to demonstrate sounds that no other synth could produce at the time!! :) will check out the other carts for you. any of what on the S970? dx7 patches? no, not really, only poor sampled imitations.
Just found your channel tonight, I must say, I love your posts!!
glad to hear that, thanks!
Yes, I did enjoy listening to those old sounds. No combs to speak of, but interesting all the same. How much did this cost back in 1983? And, I'm sure we're all curious as to the other sounds you have on cartridge.
combs? this was an expensive synth, in the neighborhood of $2000.
Woody Piano Shack sorry Woody, damn autocorrect, that should have said "Combi's" as in what Korg uses for multi's. Only meant it jokingly, as keyboards were only single voice in those days!
vin52ny See DX5, DX1, TX816/216/416
The Reface has 8notes of polyphony!
Only 4 operators compared to other DX 6operators, but it sound killer anyway
yeah, i'm sure it does, can't help thinking that yamaha missed a trick by making it incompatible with the thousands of dx7 patches out there.
Woody Piano Shack i agree.. hopefully Yamaha does the smart thing and release a fullsize reface that can handle saved presets from the dx