Friday 28 April 2017

A REAL man's guide to programming the Yamaha DX7 (And FM synthesis)

DX7 got you down?

 Did ya' grab one on Craigslist thinking it was the missing link in you becoming the chick magnet you always knew you were? Can't get indie chicks to give you the time of day?There are 4 steps to solving your dilemma:

1. Stop
2. Being
3. A
4. Wuss

Get that bad boy out from under the bed and show it who's running sh&t

The DX7 isn't that hard, you've got 6 sine waves (Basic sound waves) you get to choose which ones you will actually hear, and which ones mess with the waves you hear.

It's like 6 guys at a urinal taking a leak, say guys 1,2 and 4 pee straight into the can, but guy 3 decides to pee on guy 1, what's guy one going to do? He tries to get out of the way. So what does his stream look like now? It's all over the place and down his pants. Guy 5 decides to cross streams with guy 2, what does that stream look like now? Instead of a line going straight in it's now spattering all over with guy 5 stream hitting it from the side. Guy 6 decides to wave his stream at guy 3 so it's crossing streams every fraction of a second but unaffecting it the next, what does that look like?

Instead of seeing the pee streams you HEAR them, and you get to tell the guys who pees straight and who messes with the other guy's stream, once you have decided who's doing what, you call that decision an "Algorithm" you call the guys peeing straight carriers and the guys messing with the other guys operators,

And as far as the synth its self, on the left there are buttons of differing colors, on the right there are a bunch of buttons with writing above and below, also in colors, these are your parameters you can mess with, decide which one you want to mess with note its color, then press the button on the left that matches that color, then the button on the right closest to the parameter to want to act, then use the data slider to change it.

That's it, go get em' tiger

You are now an FM porn star,

Go program your first patch and name it "Money shot"