I collect DX7 patches since 1986, but never found any Near East, Arabian, Turkish, Iranian, Greek, Balkan… patch.
The only ethnic patches I know are African, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Indonesian, Jamaican, and some European (accordions, recorder, bag-pipes, fiddle, hurdy-gurdy, some percussions).
It wouldn’t be easy to program those Oriental patches on DX7.
But I know some Balkan musicians used DX11, and Casio CZ successfully for imitation of some folk instruments.
If you need them, find some sampler or sample based synthesizer or arranger keyboard specialized on this type of sounds (and even styles), like Yamaha PSR1000, Korg PA80 with Turkish card or so.
Daniel Forró
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On Feb 15, 2025, at 16:37, tsoukoulis via groups.io <tsoukoulis@...> wrote:
Thanks for that Nick,
I have played around with these in the past with limited success.
Also finding it difficult to switch quickly from one patch to another within a suitable time frame - whereas performance patches can be changed relatively quickly.
If possible I am looking for patches akin to Yamaha PSRa 5000 "Istanbul Strings, OUD - etc World Instruments" Suitable for the DX7 - ???
I am open to further suggestions
PS I'm not very tech savvy ... I know just enough to get by LOL......
Cheers
