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BlackWinny · Post by **BlackWinny** » Tue Jul 14, 2015 7:46 pm

layzer wrote:can you change the CART directory to point to another folder? i don't like any of my DAW data on my C: drive.

There is a magic tool that I've been using for years and years (exactly since 2001): Hard LinkShell Extension

http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshel ... nsion.html

You install it (it will be useful for many things everyday)...

It becomes simply a new menu in your local menu of your Windows Explorer. For the files and the folders as well.

Then simply by a drag&drop with the rightmost button of your mouse, you create a symbolic link from your folder which contains your data but which is in the other disk (disk D: for example) to the folder which should (but now will never more) contain the cart. That's all. And Dexed will see that cart as if it was still in the directory that cart was originally.

In a same disk partition you use hard links (for files) or junctions (as hard links but for full folders and subfolders)... but from a partition to another you use symbolic links.

A really magical tool. It uses common NTFS features... but makes them much more easy to use, quasi-elementary.

David Else · Post by **David Else** » Tue Jul 14, 2015 8:09 pm

Fantastic synth!

I would like to add to the request someone made earlier in the thread, can we make it one click to select a patch in the cart rather than double? I am using a Bamboo pad and it's very tricky and annoying to double click for each patch!

layzer · Post by **layzer** » Tue Jul 14, 2015 8:20 pm

BlackWinny wrote:
layzer wrote:can you change the CART directory to point to another folder? i don't like any of my DAW data on my C: drive.
There is a magic tool that I've been using for years and years (exactly since 2001): Hard LinkShell Extension

http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshel ... nsion.html

You install it (it will be useful for many things everyday)...

It becomes simply a new menu in your local menu of your Windows Explorer. For the files and the folders as well.

Then simply by a drag&drop with the rightmost button of your mouse, you create a symbolic link from your folder which contains your data but which is in the other disk (disk D: for example) to the folder which should (but now will never more) contain the cart. That's all. And Dexed will see that cart as if it was still in the directory that cart was originally.

In a same disk partition you use hard links (for files) or junctions (as hard links but for full folders and subfolders)... but from a partition to another you use symbolic links.

A really magical tool. It uses common NTFS features... but makes them much more easy to use, quasi-elementary.

thanks whinny, the CART folder really should be located in the same directory where the dexed DLL is placed. i HATE plugins that spew their code/data everywhere.

electro · Post by **electro** » Thu Jul 16, 2015 2:17 am

David Else wrote:Fantastic synth!

I would like to add to the request someone made earlier in the thread, can we make it one click to select a patch in the cart rather than double? I am using a Bamboo pad and it's very tricky and annoying to double click for each patch!

Yes!

tico-tico · Post by **tico-tico** » Sat Jul 18, 2015 12:02 pm

layzer wrote:the CART folder really should be located in the same directory where the dexed DLL is placed. i HATE plugins that spew their code/data everywhere.

the magic of open source programs is that you can fix them yourself))

https://github.com/asb2m10/dexed/issues/35

Vectorman · Post by **Vectorman** » Sun Jul 19, 2015 5:43 pm

Just discovered Dexed yesterday and really dig it. I've found myself a bit burnt out on analog emulating synths lately and was enjoying a few Youtube vids of DX's and TX802's and such the last few days, so I guess I was primed and ready for this. The DX7 patches played in Dexed bring me back to the days when I had hardware FM synths to a greater degree than FM8 did. The included selection of patches is very nice...so much evocative, interesting stuff that isn't just the typical kinds of patches so overused in the '80s. Attack transients are so clear and punchy. I think it's time for FM to make a comeback in my recordings.

electro · Post by **electro** » Mon Jul 20, 2015 5:12 pm

David Else wrote:Fantastic synth!

I would like to add to the request someone made earlier in the thread, can we make it one click to select a patch in the cart rather than double? I am using a Bamboo pad and it's very tricky and annoying to double click for each patch!

I would also appreciate if we could audition patches on the just as easy (without having to click on a transmit button after each preset change)

layzer · Post by **layzer** » Mon Jul 20, 2015 5:19 pm

tico-tico wrote:
layzer wrote:the CART folder really should be located in the same directory where the dexed DLL is placed. i HATE plugins that spew their code/data everywhere.
the magic of open source programs is that you can fix them yourself))

https://github.com/asb2m10/dexed/issues/35

thats awesome, tico! but i'm not a programmer

could you PM me the "fixed" x32 Dll?

electro · Post by **electro** » Mon Jul 20, 2015 5:20 pm

David Else wrote:Fantastic synth!

I would like to add to the request someone made earlier in the thread, can we make it one click to select a patch in the cart rather than double? I am using a Bamboo pad and it's very tricky and annoying to double click for each patch!

I would also appreciate if we could audition patches on the DX7 just as easy (without having to click on a transmit button after each preset change)

M0R0DER · Post by **M0R0DER** » Thu Jul 23, 2015 9:45 pm

Hi everyone!
Dexed is really awesome, I actually bought a tx7 just because of it.

I recently downloaded version 0.9, and I spent the entire evening tonight trying to get it to write sysex to my tx7. I actually thought something was wrong with my unit, until I - after several hours - tried version 0.8, which worked fine. Any idea what's up?

overhishead · Post by **overhishead** » Fri Jul 24, 2015 1:00 pm

M0R0DER wrote:Hi everyone!
Dexed is really awesome, I actually bought a tx7 just because of it.

I recently downloaded version 0.9, and I spent the entire evening tonight trying to get it to write sysex to my tx7. I actually thought something was wrong with my unit, until I - after several hours - tried version 0.8, which worked fine. Any idea what's up?

could Dexed be made to function as a controller interface? (like the Plugin Boutique CZ)

THAT would be

fmr · Post by **fmr** » Fri Jul 24, 2015 1:22 pm

M0R0DER wrote:I recently downloaded version 0.9, and I spent the entire evening tonight trying to get it to write sysex to my tx7. I actually thought something was wrong with my unit, until I - after several hours - tried version 0.8, which worked fine. Any idea what's up?

I don't own any compatible hardware, but this seems like a bug, since it was supposed to work as a front end editor to any compatible hardware (DX/TX line).

sebber · Post by **sebber** » Fri Jul 24, 2015 6:03 pm

I have a an original DX7, a TG77, FM8 and Dexed here and did some really thorough comparison of some 25 patches. Since I want to transfer quite a few patches from the DX7 I didn't reprogram them on the other machines but imported the SysEx and only did a few tweaks here and there. Dexed did a really really good job, I must say. In my little test parcour, Dexed got 16 out of 18 points, FM8 8 and the TG77 (I tried that one just for fun) 7. The envelopes of FM8 are actually a bit closer to the TG77 than to the DX7, but anyway, what I wanted to say: great job! Dexed so often sounded so close to the DX7 and never had a real crash (soundwise).
I think the main issue is probably the scaling of some envelopes, and I found a good description on how they work here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic ... D2KGEj7QIk, but you probably know that already. Oh, and the portamento and controller settings of the original would of course be nice

Anyway, what I wanted to say: if I can be of any help getting the envelopes right, let me know. I think this is a great project and if I can give a hand, let's go.
Cheers
Seb

electro · Post by **electro** » Fri Jul 24, 2015 10:44 pm

fmr wrote:
M0R0DER wrote:I recently downloaded version 0.9, and I spent the entire evening tonight trying to get it to write sysex to my tx7. I actually thought something was wrong with my unit, until I - after several hours - tried version 0.8, which worked fine. Any idea what's up?
I don't own any compatible hardware, but this seems like a bug, since it was supposed to work as a front end editor to any compatible hardware (DX/TX line).

Beware 0.8 has a different VSTID than 0.9. Last I checked the DX7 sysex worked but the patch names had errors.

electro · Post by **electro** » Fri Jul 24, 2015 10:46 pm

sebber wrote: Anyway, what I wanted to say: if I can be of any help getting the envelopes right, let me know. I think this is a great project and if I can give a hand, let's go.
Cheers
Seb

Dexed is meant to be a DX7 bank manager / emulator only. I didn't know TG77 / SY99 could come close to emulating DX7.

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