the import of sysex files is rather good in fm heaven (haven't really tried others though), but i actually meant, that the sound engine of fm heaven is the closest you can get, if you want that typical, crappy dx sound. fm heaven sounds as quirky as the originals (in a good way), fm7/8 etc sound way too polished to really emulate the ruffness of the tx/dx originals...
don't missunderstand me, all the others are great as well, each on their own, when it comes to fm.

of course, my opinion only, who am i anyway...

fm7/8 can sound crappy if you max out the digital slider, but raw imports will have it on 0

i found that to match the crappyness of my tx i had to put it two third up (but my rack still has more humph with my signature sawtooth)

Speaking of TX/DX patches, anyone know a good source for mid-80's Chick Corea style ones?

I got both Solid Bass and Lately Bass in FM 8 now. Almost equal, Lately bass got little more mid in it. Both sound have little randomness almost like analog feeling dispute analog is set to 0.

Volume is set to max (100) in FM8, but sound only get to 1/3 in logic mixer which is to low. Some way to increase that or have to gain it in Logic?

dx check the operator outs, they may have all been set to 50 instead of 100

If you mean the Elektic Band type sounds, then I've done more than a few for Zebra, that sound exactly like some used in the first Elektric Band albums from 86 and 87.
He's one of my biggest musical influences, so I always go after those kinds of sounds. Not much into the real piano acoustic jazz thing, but the synth fusion stuff, is what I love.
Cheers,
Michael

i have a 3 osc synth called exposynth that i translated some of the dx100 patches from.