I owned both, the original DX7 and a DX7 II/TX 802. By far the second incarnation sounded much, much better. I actually prefer even Dexed for original DX7 sounds, as Dexed supports MPE…perpetual3 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 09, 2022 3:19 pm As far as a DX7 emu is concerned I use the Plogue OPS7. All of Plogue’s fm synths have IMHO more character and presence that the competition by an obvious margin.
I need to play the swell with my LinnStrument. Sustain needs to be a modulation target… Three complete segments are sufficient mostly, if I wanted movement during sustain, I can still modulate on top of that with a LFO…I mean that's fair enough. Though I'm a little unclear on your example. It sounds like all you'd need is to have the attack rate on the modulator operator be slower than that of the carrier, so that you hear the modulation swelling over time, no?
And yes, the CZ series had also usable envelopes. Both synths are from the last millenium. Its almost 40 years later and synth designs still stick to ADSR…