The original stock patches from the Yamaha DX7, exported as SysEx directly from hardware.
Patch List
YORKSHIRE
LOW HIGH — A bell sound. The low notes make sick basslines, and the high notes sound nice too — add some reverb and woah!
BRASS BELL
MOOG ROGUE — Very nice sounding Moog-ish bass
SUNRISE — Gated ethereal sound
Ceremonyws
Brass FULL — Massive mid-range, phat low-end, 80s pad sound
ORCH.SPACE — An absolute gem to play staccato / quickly
GrandWURLo
Bras&Draws
DX7 RHODES — Nice in the high registers
PRODYDODGY
PED STEEL3
PROPHET 1 — Nice pad
BRASSHINE — Reeks of 80s PBS documentaries
DIGI TOOL
CLICKROADS
GANIJA BASS
S.A.W 87
7th WAVE — I’m a sucker for harmonics, love this one 🙂
SOURBLADES
*PPG*Vol.4 — If this is as good a replication of the PPG as the Moog Rogue patch, then PPGs sound like crap 🙂
WHEEL BASS
STEAM ORGN
7TH HEAVEN
MOOG STRINGS
BIGBADBASS — Awesome bass. Reminds me of the 90s, breakbeat, techno, and modern dubstep.
*Ensemble3
Grinder 6Y — Love this patch in the bass registers, also some famous techno patch I think
BAROQUE
SOLID BASS — Love this bass patch in the mid / bass registers, also a famous techno patch from Orbital
The Solid Bass Story
For a while I sought the phat, punchy low-end, authentic DX7 bass sound from the Orbital song “Halcyon On & On”. It was a stock patch on the DX7 called “Solid Bass”. Nothing online was a proper clone. I found “Solid Bass” SysEx patches people posted online, and they all lacked transient clarity and phat bottom end.
When I got an original Yamaha DX7 I exported all the original stock patches as SysEx. When loaded into the open source VST synthesizer Dexed — and level matched to my hardware DX7 — the sound is perfect.
Using with Dexed
With Dexed, you can switch between 3 different implementations of the DX7 FM synthesis engines. The default engine sounds like a real hardware DX7 with all its 12-bit hiss, artifacts, and transient punch. Then there’s a cleaner modern FM engine implementation, presumably higher than 12-bit, with no audio glitches or hiss. Let’s just say I haven’t hooked up my DX7 since Dexed 🙂
