KVR Audio

Bassballjg · Post by **Bassballjg** » Sun Oct 30, 2005 11:34 pm

Rock wrote:
Ildon wrote:
gizmo wrote:I'm especially loving this as I'm experiencing that extended cash-flow crisis called self-employment.
Welcome to the club!
Ditto

We have a quorum!

I haven't aquired and DX7 patches for it yet, but thusfar Hexter is obviating my desire for either FM7 or a used DX.

lion_cub · Post by **lion_cub** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 2:53 am

Checkout some of the leslie / hammond organ patches. They sound so good, it's hard to believe.

wildzeke · Post by **wildzeke** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 3:34 am

This page describes the basic DX-7 patches with mp3 examples.

http://www.synthmania.com/dx7.htm

Ildon · Post by **Ildon** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 3:48 am

wildzeke wrote:This page describes the basic DX-7 patches with mp3 examples.

http://www.synthmania.com/dx7.htm

That actually does sound almost exactly like Hexter.

bluedad · Post by **bluedad** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 3:50 am

here's a great article from the dave benson page.It's a reprint from keyboard mag with dx7 wiz bo tomlyn.
If you ever run across a copy of 'the complete dx7' by howard massey, get it!

politcat · Post by **politcat** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 5:39 am

loaded some of conrardy's banks, WHAT A BUNCH OF CPU HOGS!
que pasa with that?!

foosnark · Post by **foosnark** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 6:23 am

politcat wrote:loaded some of conrardy's banks, WHAT A BUNCH OF CPU HOGS!
que pasa with that?!

Long release times do that. Remember those are hardware patches, and on a real DX7 you don't have to worry about CPU time.

Also in the hardware days, reverb wasn't a matter of just firing up another instance of a plugin, so long release times were a common substitute

Robomusic · Post by **Robomusic** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 7:12 am

It sounds good i will DL the evening

quietmusician · Post by **quietmusician** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 7:20 am

foosnark wrote:
politcat wrote:loaded some of conrardy's banks, WHAT A BUNCH OF CPU HOGS!
que pasa with that?!
Long release times do that. Remember those are hardware patches, and on a real DX7 you don't have to worry about CPU time.

Also in the hardware days, reverb wasn't a matter of just firing up another instance of a plugin, so long release times were a common substitute

Are long release times a good substitute for reverb in your opinion ?

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 7:57 am

SSL wrote:I don't think FM is good for anything but basses and e-pianos. Everything else is pretty much crap sounding

Which is why Brian Eno is such a big FM fan?

I get some amazing other-worldly athmospheric and fx sounds from my FM7 and the FM modules in my Nord G2 even better (esp as they don't eat CPU). I never use basses and as for e-piano's have a few more dedicated synths for that.

Since I'm unbiased (as I got my FM7 free) I'll have to give this Hexter thing a try - I love FM synths.

politcat · Post by **politcat** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 3:14 pm

aMUSEd wrote:
SSL wrote: I get some amazing other-worldly athmospheric and fx sounds from my FM7...

can you share some of those patches?

i'm not really interested in the "real" instrument sounds and that's basically all i've found so far.

foosnark · Post by **foosnark** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 3:49 pm

quietmusician wrote:Are long release times a good substitute for reverb in your opinion ?

Almost never.

gizmo · Post by **gizmo** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 6:53 pm

Hexter is a dream come true for making normal sounds into weird ones: just go through the algorithms at the top, there are 32. Also, try cranking up the chorus voices. Careful of volume if you're on headphones.

The more I play with this the more fun it is, lots of nuance in the sounds and the incisive ones really float over a mix. Who needs money?

alxstewart · Post by **alxstewart** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 8:02 am

Too good to last?

2005-11-13 (November 13, 2005) - Sorry, took a closer look at GPL license and found out VST plugin interface is not compatible with it since it is proprietary code so I removed the plugins.

Possible solution is breaking the plugin into two parts, the proprietary VST GUI which would load the engine as dynamic linked plugin running as a fork. Another possibility is maybe getting permission from the copyright holders to link to proprietary code as LGPL. http://cutevst.sourceforge.net/

Hope this gets resolved, this is truly a great synth.

Ildon · Post by **Ildon** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 2:09 pm

alxstewart wrote:Too good to last?

2005-11-13 (November 13, 2005) - Sorry, took a closer look at GPL license and found out VST plugin interface is not compatible with it since it is proprietary code so I removed the plugins.

Possible solution is breaking the plugin into two parts, the proprietary VST GUI which would load the engine as dynamic linked plugin running as a fork. Another possibility is maybe getting permission from the copyright holders to link to proprietary code as LGPL. http://cutevst.sourceforge.net/

Hope this gets resolved, this is truly a great synth.

Oh man, that sucks.

Isn't Hexter awesome?!