Plogue OPS7 (bit-accurate DX7 emulation!)

[davidv@plogue]

David this synth, is spot on without Efx and tweaking Dac settings.
Real quick question, is it possible to Change the Dac settings and lock them for each new instance. If not possible yet, can this be implemented in the future?
Thanks again for this release.

Most definitely can. Set whatever settings you like and hit "save as template" in the main preset box.
Each time you start a new instance, those settings will be used (this gets overwritten if you load presets that change these of course)

Cheers

[HAL76]

I want to sing hymns of praise on the OPS7 all day long.

I have it for about four months now and it gets better every time I use it.

[stash98]

It really is amazing. Great price, amazing sound. You can actually program it. Plogue really did a fantastic job.

[jamcat]

I want to sing hymns of praise on the OPS7 all day long.

I thought it was a DX7 clone.

[HAL76]

I want to sing hymns of praise on the OPS7 all day long.

I thought it was a DX7 clone.

So you are one of those show offs who use to speak of a Prophet 5 instead of your Repro 5? Well ...

But yippie yeah. This software even has that sweet sweet noise with crumbeled artifacts that I can´t live without.

[arkmabat]

$50 is the perfect price. Hard not to bite.

[jamcat]

I want to sing hymns of praise on the OPS7 all day long.

I thought it was a DX7 clone.

So you are one of those show offs who use to speak of a Prophet 5 instead of your Repro 5? Well ...

But yippie yeah. This software even has that sweet sweet noise with crumbeled artifacts that I can´t live without.

No that’s not it. It’s that you’re singing the praises of a DX7.

[HAL76]

I want to sing hymns of praise on the OPS7 all day long.

I thought it was a DX7 clone.

So you are one of those show offs who use to speak of a Prophet 5 instead of your Repro 5? Well ...

But yippie yeah. This software even has that sweet sweet noise with crumbeled artifacts that I can´t live without.

No that’s not it. It’s that you’re singing the praises of a DX7.

I normally don´t want to speak about personal details in forums anymore, but - jamcat - back then in the 80s - I mean i got a DD Quartz and my first music casette for christmas in 1985. "Hunting high and low" was soaked in DX juice and made the one or other little crocodile tear roll from time to time. I mean how clould I think different now that I can !differ good from bad? And afaik the DX stayed with me for quiet long. It was everywhre, from the radio over the club to mny many chillout tracks. And I hope it always will be. THX Plogue

[Tj Shredder]

Here is so much praise for OPS. But if I prefer the DX7 II over the original first incarnation sound wise and do have the Arturia in my arsenal already. Does it still make sense???
(I suffer from collectors disease but try to fight it…; - )

[crickey13]

Here is so much praise for OPS. But if I prefer the DX7 II over the original first incarnation sound wise and do have the Arturia in my arsenal already. Does it still make sense???
(I suffer from collectors disease but try to fight it…; - )

DX7II uses the same basic patch sysex as the DX7.
However It has extended performance and splits sysex (which you can emulate with our two layer system) and higher quality 15bit DAC (which you can also already choose in OPS7).

I'm not sure how close it gets exactly, but if you don't need the extra features of the mkII, then you might find it sufficient for your needs.

[nominil]

Here is so much praise for OPS. But if I prefer the DX7 II over the original first incarnation sound wise and do have the Arturia in my arsenal already. Does it still make sense???
(I suffer from collectors disease but try to fight it…; - )

For me, yes. You can do layering in OPS7 which you can't in Arturia's DX (which I also have and dig mightily), and I feel like being able to split and layer was a big deal on at least one of the DX7mkII models, right? Memory is foggy. You can also change DAC settings in OPS7 for cleaner/more mkII-esque output.

But, I dunno. If you rarely reach for DX-style FM sounds, the Arturia you already have would work just fine. I'm a big fan of any kind of FM, so I'm happy to have both. I only reach for OPS7 these days, but keep the Arturia DX installed in case I want a different approach for the same kind of synth.

[kobal]

i don t know if it s about setting but on this demo it dosen t sound as good as the hardware, it suffer from something you hear on many/ most plugins, the transients are not as tight precise and defined but more muffled, it s still close but i guess the transient punch is one of the thing that make these old yamaha fm synth great.
it might be a setting or maybe a bit eq / transient shaping could make them identical



this transient thing you can hear is one of the thing that is the most annoying to me as the difference in this video affect 90% of plugins i know which don t have nice precise transients, it can be more prononced than this , it s like a undefined , undetailed splash at the attack making the sound sort of lifless , veiled, boring, strangely some old plugins suffer less from this so my guess is that it s related to aliasing... to me you either have plugins with shit transients but that behave in analog way wihtout craping out too quickly into digital artifacts when extreme modulation, or you have plugins with good transients but that can t handle any extreme settings...so in both case it s annoying.. rarely a plugin /synth get both right to me, maybe some analog hardware as well no idea, but it could be possible for example on a synth with filter that dosen t open much on the top i guess it might lead to something smilar as well but not sure.. with plugins i feel it s more something that help prevent aliasing that make the transients undefined and not tight.

here it might be a setting cause i find it surprising and it s little , maybe he used a too clean setting, maybe there is not enought dirt/ artifact to make the attack brighter, i don t know, there is so many settings on the ops7 that i guess it might be that.

[hurricaneaudiolab]

here it might be a setting cause i find it surprising and it s little , maybe he used a too clean setting, maybe there is not enought dirt/ artifact to make the attack brighter, i don t know, there is so many settings on the ops7 that i guess it might be that.

Yes, that could very well be the case.

I unfortunately did not save the project, so I do not know for sure. However, I'm in the process of creating another comparison, and since I am much more familiar with OPS7 and particularly, MY OWN DX7 now, I'm making sure they match as close as possible. Plogue helped me identify my version of the DX7 (sent them some pics of the chips). I'll also be using patches that are a bit more complex. I expect the new comparison up late today or early tomorrow. Regardless, the OPS7 is the best DX7 (+more) emulator out there.

[hurricaneaudiolab]

OPS7 settings I used:

DAC Bits: 10~12:2
Comp Error: Default
Post Filter: Older Model
Firmware: mk1 old
Note Bugs: On
Sim non-init state: On

[yul]

Sounds just about right I can't hear any difference on the first few clips I listened to.