I wish there was a V50 rack unit, but that was during the Rise of the Workstations, so module versions were less common.

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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Ames
Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2021 1:33 PM
To: [email protected]; vision1@...
Subject: Re: [YamahaDX] The 4OP to DX7 Conversion Project

For those who're interested, the V50 is essentially two TX81Zs in a keyboard, plus a cheap drum machine and some basic effects. They're still going for fairly bargain prices, too.

And yeah, the TX81Z is underappreciated; not quite as classic as the DX7, but much more featureful than a lot of the 4-ops, and the additional waveforms and flexible layering open up a lot of sonic territory that the big DXen can't easily replicate.

On 6/15/21, LarryS <vision1@...> wrote:

Certainly true.

I am one of those fair-weather-FM users that had a TX81z and it never 
went anywhere.  The presets were middling and nowhere could I find 
super sounds at the time, so I ditched the thing because my exciting 
life just didn’t have time to stare at a 2 line display.

As I recall, I had gotten it because the TX-7 wasn’t rack mount and 
the TX816… well, who could afford THAT?  Nothing in between.

While I’m not up on every piece of hardware any longer, I’m still 
quite the fanboy of FM and would very much love to see someone take it 
to the next level.  Multi wave forms.  8 (or more) operators.  
Adaptable, even dynamically assignable algorithms.  Real time 
parameter changes.  Not especially tough in software with today’s 
hardware, but I doubt we’ll ever see a Grand Old Keyboard made from it.



L.





but I could make an argument that if the FM community as a whole had 
spent as much time programming the TX801z as the DX7, there might have 
been a lot more surprises to enjoy.  I performed for over three years 
with *nothing* but four -- yes, four -- TX81z modules in my rack., 
connected to a Roland
MKB-300



Regards,

-BW

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