Yamaha FS1R Editor for Mac OS X A Musical Lifetime's Worth of Background: It's been about five years since I sold my New England Digital made Synclavier Digital Music System, which I had for a full twenty years since 1984. MIDI was invented so that musical instruments could communicate with each other and so that one instrument can control another. Over the original MIDI protocol. Apple has supported this protocol from Mac OS X 10.4 onwards, and a Windows driver based on Apple's implementation exists. 'Yamaha FS1R Editor Software'. Sound on Sound. Electronic Musician Magazine, December 1999. (Author, Editor) Be the first to review this item. See all formats and editions Hide other formats and editions. Profile-Kris Bones-Genaside II, Nashville Mix Engineer Chuck Ainlay, Yamaha FS1r-Focusrite ComPounder-Rode NTV-Steinberg ReCycle. Product details. Series: ISSN.
Joecaithness wrote:also in general talk about your experiences with the DX range My experience? 4-operator = thin and twangy; 6-operator = glassy and chunky. I have to say I personally wouldn't touch a 4-op machine. The extra weight those 2 operators carry makes an enormous difference to the sound. Try a few bass patches and you'll see what I mean. I still regularly use the old 'Level 42' bass patch.
TX-802 is the best of the 6-op DX-7 type FM synths IMO. I still have one in my rack, but FM8 is much simpler to load up nowadays. Jedi Poster Posts: 11678 Joined: Tue Aug 14, 2001 12:00 am Location: Sheffield, UK. Quite a lot of early midi devices ( such as the original DX range,) can't actually do it by them selves.
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They need prompting by another device. Most software librarians are aware of this and transmit a 'dump send request' to the synth to instigate transfer.
Best bet is to get an editor/ librarian and see what it can do for you. If you really want to get into FM I can't recommend highly enough the SY77 & 99. These two synth are simply awesome, kind-of DX7 and Korg M1 in the same box, plus You can use sampled waves in FM algorithms! On the SY99, these can be your own samples!! You do need to be a bit of a masochist though!!!! Frequent Poster Posts: 554 Joined: Mon Jul 03, 2006 12:00 am. Joecaithness wrote:also in general talk about your experiences with the DX range My experience?
4-operator = thin and twangy; Except that the most famous dance/techno/jungle/acid bass sound of all time (Patch #01) used the 4 operator DX100 from which the DX27 is derived. Also this synth was the mainstay of Detroit techno and continually used by people like Derek May. It has also maintained its price in the second hand market. With good programming you can get good sounds out of a 4 operator synth, but its not easy to learn to programme. Frequent Poster Posts: 659 Joined: Mon Oct 24, 2005 12:00 am. The Bob Campbell wrote:This is why I bought the Yamaha FS1R, FM Synthesis on steroids, and a most excellent free editor on pc and osx from that Japanese guy's website.
I save the patches straight into DAW song folders on the pc! I'd thoroughly recommend it if you aren't bothered about having a local keyboard or editing patches physically on the unit. Yep, great piece of kit and a joy to program if you're an FM nut. However, without any form of a software based editor you'll be tearing your hair out maneuvering around the menu options/pages. Moderator Posts: 7341 Joined: Fri Sep 12, 2003 12:00 am. Zukan wrote: Yep, great piece of kit and a joy to program if you're an FM nut.
However, without any form of a software based editor you'll be tearing your hair out maneuvering around the menu options/pages. I have a theory about FM programming. Because it followed standard analogue synths where programming was easy, FM programming appeared more difficult than it really was. There were plenty of good DX7 and DX100 programmers who never used a computer. Just think of Detroit techno that used the DX100. And for several years in the 80s, the DX7 seemed to be the only synth used on pop records. There were plenty of new sounds for the DX7 then.
Frequent Poster Posts: 659 Joined: Mon Oct 24, 2005 12:00 am. Well, there were lots of sounds for the DX7.precisely because. people didn't program it - there was a ready market of people wanting new sounds, without the ability to program then - so the sound companies stepped in and filled a need. The reason people didn't program the DX7 was a combination of all of:-One of the first synths to move to a letterbox interface - no knobs, which required some effort to visualise, understand and navigate - Unfamiliar/new synthesis style with unfamiliar terminology - It had a decent (for the time) selection of presets so there wasn't an immediate need to get your hands dirty - It appealed to 'keyboard-player' types, who could play with expression and polyphony, compared to the limited polyphony knob-laden synths of the previous decade. These people were more interested in playing than programming - It had a cartridge slot so you could buy new sounds and easily play them, without requiring any techy knowledge (again, great for the players) The other thing about FM is that, apart from the terminology, FM oscillators interacted in ways unlike traditional synths, meaning that often there's a large amount of unpredictability, which makes life tricky for the programmer unless they have a complete understanding of what it is they are doing. Lastly, FM programming done well and expressively is a complex and subtle art form - for most people, boring stuff like key scalling and velocity sensitivity settings are a chore - and rather than just have two oscillators to deal with, you have up to 6 operators, with scaling controls everywhere! Anyone remember the Jellinghaus DX7 programmer?
All the DX7 parameters as knobs. Oh, and as for the Detroit techno thing - yes, they used the DX100 because it was cheap (and have consequently made it ridiculously expensive on ebay, seeing as I want one - just out of nostalgia not because they are any good), but they were hardly known for programming it - they only used one of two basses on the thing.
Over and over. If I never hear another DX7 bass sound it will be too soon. Jedi Poster Posts: 8316 Joined: Tue Jan 10, 2006 1:00 am. Desmond wrote: Anyone remember the Jellinghaus DX7 programmer? All the DX7 parameters as knobs. With great affection.
I had access to one for one project years ago and we had a great time- 4 guys on it at once cranking away. My DX7 had never sounded so interesting- or completely mad, depending on your point of view. In the end, like so many 'boutique' products, our model was pretty unreliable and eventually just gave up doing anything at all. Unlike my Dx7, which though most of the time is asleep in in its flight case, works just fine. These days I use FM7- faster and cleaner sounding.
Frequent Poster Posts: 815 Joined: Mon Oct 03, 2005 12:00 am. Zukan wrote:CX5M.now that was fun huh? No, it was utter crap. Take off the rose-tinted nostalgia specs, Zuk. Next you'll be digging out the FB01 and MT32 for your next tune. (I always wanted a DX5 or DX1 though. And actually, one of my favourite FM synths is actually the EFM1 in Logic - really simple, but sounds nice for the sorts of things it does well, without getting into the nasty FM territory).
I do agree FM8 is very nice though for more complicated FM stuff. Didn't you have a DX1 Zuk? I'd swap you a CX5m for it.
Note: the phrase 'utter crap' in this case can be exchanged with the phrase 'good for the education sector'. Jedi Poster Posts: 8316 Joined: Tue Jan 10, 2006 1:00 am. All contents copyright © SOS Publications Group and/or its licensors, 1985-2019. Broadcom 802.11 linux sta wireless driver for mac. All rights reserved.
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