Dexed Patches Download !FREE!
Tisa Timchak
Each one of these patches was one that I thought sounded legitimately good and usable, rather than 99% of the DX7 patches out there that are...not great, to put it nicely. That being said, I'm one of the biggest DX7 fanboys on the planet who thinks the E-Piano 1 is the greatest patch ever made, so I'm sure there will be some patches that you don't care for. These are the patches I personally like, and it's my hope that these banks can spare some people from spending hours wading through the trash on the Dexed Cart to find one usable patch like I did.
The article at Synthtopia highlights that it has 640,000 patches built in. I greatly respect the Dev and the work into Dexed. I find having that many patches just insane and spend more time going through patches than actually creating.
When I bought a DX-7 editor/librarian for PC it came with a collection of about 20k patches in sysex files grouped in the usual banks of 32 (most, but not all fully filled).
90% of the content is effectively kind of duplicate - patches are not exactly identical, but minor variations of the same theme.
Some archives included the name of the patch maker, which helped to reduce candidates for a first check: if 3 or 4 patches of someone were interesting, usually the rest was a least worth auditioning.
The editor made it easy to copy from the source bank into a personal favourite list, but I didn't perform this systematically.
I just grabbed a few dozen and went on tweaking them, which was easy with full graphic and live sound support.
I think I see why - it was that dexed was built against your fork when JUCE was on 5.4.1, but your latest fork of JUCE was for 5.4.5, at which point these minor changes would be needed. Here is the patch!
But then I noticed TTS is showing the patches in Patch Browser. Although I'm not sure what's with the multiple Piano 1. Is it supposed to show multiple banks? I would have expected one current bank. (I sorted on patch column to get that output)
Just made a shield board for the Minidexed project.
The Pi Pico is working as a USB midi converter so the Norns can control the Pi3B being used for Minidexed.
I now need to make a case for it to go with its friends.
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