If anyone is looking for the DX7 Rhodes sound only, check out http://fmtines.com/.  Yeah it may sound cheesy to some but it IS a classic sound!

Poor thread, in deep slumber, but since it's anyway already up. This is a nice "newish" DX7 clone some might not have heard about:
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSs1-020nNY
https://github.com/asb2m10/dexed
 
I have NI FM8 and still find a place for this one. Really stable even though it's at 0.8.

Bajan Blue
Bob
Do your sounds work with a real DX7? If yes I would love them - I really don't use my DX7 as much as I should so it would help greatly if they work
Cheers
Nigel
 
 

I would think so.  FM7 and FM8 can read native DX banks.  The contents of my folders for these include mostly syx and bnk, and some of the TX banks may have some different formats.  But I would think any of the sysx files would work.
 
Shoot me a PM with an email address and I will send you a folder for testing, and if that works for you then I could send you the rest.
 
Bob Bone
 

beltrom
Poor thread, in deep slumber, but since it's anyway already up. This is a nice "newish" DX7 clone some might not have heard about:
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSs1-020nNY
https://github.com/asb2m10/dexed
 
I have NI FM8 and still find a place for this one. Really stable even though it's at 0.8.

Thanks for this link.  I downloaded Dexed and was really blown away!  Great DX7 sound and you can't beat the price! Thanks again!

I have download and installed DEXED and yes it is a fine synth. But nothing like FM7/8 though. It still has a very singular oscillator sound to it and it won't give you massive wide fat analog sounding textures. There are many sounds for it and I hope everyone realises you can click on that CART symbol down lower left and open up a huge number of banks of sounds. Very cool.
 
FM7/8 can do massive unison layers per key and detune and widen them the same way I could do all that on the TX816 rack in the past. Now that is a serious fat sounding DX machine. All modules on one sound but detune and pan them all though, it can sound incredible that way. I can get a very similar sound with FM7 as well. It replicates a single DX7 patch perfectly but it can take on the sound of the rack too which is pretty cool.
 
DEXED sounds good running into something cool like ERS 'Dimension D' plugin. You can get some rich, wide, liquid sounding patches then.

Bob
thanks I'll PM you now
Cheers
Nigel
 

Jeff Evans
I have download and installed DEXED and yes it is a fine synth. But nothing like FM7/8 though. It still has a very singular oscillator sound to it and it won't give you massive wide fat analog sounding textures. There are many sounds for it and I hope everyone realises you can click on that CART symbol down lower left and open up a huge number of banks of sounds. Very cool.
 
FM7/8 can do massive unison layers per key and detune and widen them the same way I could do all that on the TX816 rack in the past. Now that is a serious fat sounding DX machine. All modules on one sound but detune and pan them all though, it can sound incredible that way. I can get a very similar sound with FM7 as well. It replicates a single DX7 patch perfectly but it can take on the sound of the rack too which is pretty cool.
 
DEXED sounds good running into something cool like ERS 'Dimension D' plugin. You can get some rich, wide, liquid sounding patches then.

Jeff your reply makes me regret not having pocked up FM8 during NI's sale before the holidays! Until next year, I guess I'll have to stick with Dexed! 😊

To those who sent me a PM asking for the DX presets in SYX format, I have sent emails with attached folders containing the presets, to the supplied email addresses in the PM's.
 
I also have a boatload of DX and TX presets converted for use in Native Instruments FM8, if anyone wants those, just send a PM.
 
Bob Bone
 

Hi Daniel and others.  I have an update.  Despite FM7/8 being good I am very pleased to report that after spending some time playing with DEXED I really like it a lot.
 
It has an excellent sound overall and I could even go as far as to say it sounds slightly different to FM7. perhaps a slightly warmer sounding version of DX 7 patches.  It's sounds are good but when I started opening my existing DX 7 library I could really hear how nice it sounds.
 
I was able to pull some serious fat analog patches with DEXED by first starting with a great fat analog patch from the DX 7 library.  Later programming got into some nice detuned sounds and beating etc.. Then insert two instances of DEXED.  Put the analog patch on both but edit one of them slightly.  I followed each one with an instance of Dimension D creating a nice wide gentle chorus effect.  (each Dimension D being set slightly different)  It sounds killer.  It seems to be light on CPU so multiple instances don't seem to be an issue.  Process each one with FX slightly differently in a multiple instance for an even more lush effect.
 
I like how it opens and plays my existing DX7 library a lot.  The built in layering concept in FM7/8 is good as are the delay lines too for added dimension etc.  But very satisfying results can be pulled easily from DEXED for sure.  Especially if you get creative with effects after the fact.  This is an excellent DX7 emulation VST.
 

Bob, can you send me your syx dx7 patches? I am unable to PM you. I am a new member. If you are unable to obtain my email address, is it possible to send it to you another way? Thanks in advance. :-)