Hi guys!
 
First of all, it's not a DX7 we've used, it's a SY77.
Yes, the FM EP's was a bit, shall we say, overused in the 80's, but I do think that these are great sounding, very expressive instruments, and you don't have to play cheesy 80's music with it!
Ok, the reason why I wanted to try this is that these kind of sounds are starting to get populare again in modern pruductions, (like it or not...).
IMHO, emulators doesn't work in a mix. It sounds very similar to the real thing if you solo it, but together with the rest, it doesn't cut it.
This is why I decided to take the hardware, and treat it like any other piano, that is use massive number of velocity layers (22) and sample all the notes.
So, now I have a deep samples FM EP that I can do work in a mix without having to get the hardware.
 
Ok, some people will still hate the sound and some will think that an emulator does the job great, and then this library is not for you..
 

Quite an interesting list, mumpcake, thanx.

Don't take it personally, Per. You're among fans here. 
 
Note that in the list mumpcake listed, the DX7 piano is #7, and "DX Anything" is #8. Why is the DX so universally despised? There are many older and more ubiquitous instruments that remain extremely popular (Wurlitzer, Rhodes, Hammond B-3, everything Moog) despite being more sonically limited than the DX7. Could it be more about the sappy 80's pop ballads the DX is associated with, than the instrument itself?

Guess that's it, those Whitney Houston ballads made us cringe.
That said, I do like yorolpal's suggestion about stacking this new Sampletekk library with a chorused Rhodes.

Well, I thought I had dodged a bullet but Bit's comments on the wurley made me look at it again and I bought it. While its not as versatile as the Scarbee one it really sounds good.

I had a couple DX synths but they were the 4 operator variety. They served me well at the time but FM8 is one of my least used VSTis

He, he... No problems! I usually make sample libraries that I want myself, (and then hope that others will like them too...). I also think that, even there where some great things going on in the 80's, there where a lot of cheesiness happening. Think a lot has to do with the digital era pushing out the analog.
I remember a band that was saying to the producer: "Make it sound expensive". So that glossy, might I say cold, sound was a bit overused.
But, that said, I think that these FM EP's really are expressive, great sounding instruments. Thing is that you have to remove the 80's from your mindset before using them in present productions, and that can be hard as they sure was prominent 3 decades ago!

Hey Per,

Got mine downloaded and tried it out and it is very nice indeed. And I'm not surprised you used an SY over a DX. I had both and much prefer the SY although I have a special place in my burned out cinder of a heart for the DX9...which was my first "proper" synth. Plus stacked with a fat warm Rhodes it's just loverly!