MIDI
MIDI out
(none) Sounds, banks and controller notes go here
Channel
Channel the synth listens on
MIDI in
(none) Receives voice and bank dumps from a synth, to import
Controller 1
(none) Controller 2
(none) Send on select
Click a row or use ↑↓; the synth always has the selected sound
Test note
Hear sounds without a keyboard
Both controllers (for example a keyboard and a sequencer) are passed through to MIDI out together. Sysex and clock are not passed on.
Browser preview
Audio output
System default Check it
Play test note
Not started yet
Note
0.3 s 0.8 s 1.5 s 3 s 6 s Played by 🔊, P and the MIDI test note
Controllers
🔊 or P plays a sound in Dexed in this browser
The browser preview is the Dexed engine running on this computer, so it works without a synth. With no MIDI out chosen, Audition on move uses it too.
Look
Theme
Modern
DX7 (1983)
DX7II / TX802
Brochure '83
Amber CRT
Green CRT
Saved in this browser
Near-duplicates
To review
Suppressed
How alike
Near-identical
Very close
Close
Similar
Loosely similar
Very loosely similar
Rescan
Sounds whose settings differ only slightly. Play them, tick the ones to keep and press Apply:
unticked sounds are suppressed – kept in the database but never listed. Keeping more than one remembers them as
different sounds. The suggested keeper (first, ticked) is from the most trusted source. The biggest groups come first.
Random sound
Alligator Mayonnaise
From a category
Drums & percussion
Every setting is random. Anything goes; it's only made sure that something sounds.
FM drums built the way drum programmers build them on a DX7 or TX802: each kind has its own
recipe (which operators make the body, the noise, the metal or the click), and every setting is picked at random within it.
Variation sets how far from the classic recipe it may stray.
Every setting is picked at random from the values the category's sounds use, so it follows
the category as a whole, not any one sound. It's kept only if the category fingerprint recognises it. Pitch stays musical
(no atonal or drifting sounds), except for Sound Effects and Drums. Pick a second category under and to make a
sound that falls between the two; Balance sets how strong each one is.
Generate
Category
and nothing else
Balance
Kind
Variation
Classic Varied Wild
This session, newest first
Your account
Users
Username New password Ratings Own names / categories
Add a user
Users can change their own username and password later. Setting a new password here signs that user out.
Variations of
0
Small changes to the sound, nudged towards what its category's sounds do; the algorithm stays the same.
Each one still sounds like its category, is as natural as the real sounds there and is new to the library.
Add to cartridge puts it in the cartridge as a draft: it joins the library (made by you) when you save the cartridge. Save to library adds it straight away.
Keys 1 –9 play a variation, 0 the original.
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Again
More
Morph
Slide from sound A to sound B. Levels, envelopes, detune and the LFO blend smoothly. The other settings
can't be halfway, so they switch: B's algorithm takes over at 50% (its operators are matched to A's by what they do), and
each operator's frequency switches at its own point between 30% and 70%, quietest first (the marks on the slider).
Moving the slider loads the blend into the synth and the browser preview, so you can play it; letting go plays a note.
Add to cartridge puts the blend in a free slot as a draft; Save to library adds it straight away.
A
B
A B
50%
Edit sound
↶ ↷ Reset all
A · original B · edit Save to library as new
Overwrite…
Transpose Osc sync
Pitch envelope
Make a family
The two sounds in the cartridge are the parents. They have four children; then, generation by generation,
some of the children marry a newly made partner and have children of their own, until the cartridge is full.
Every child inherits its genes from its two parents, is clearly some kind of sound, is as natural as real sounds of
its kind and is new to the library. The sliders shift those rules either way; the middle is what the library's own
sounds suggest.
Family name
↻ Preset
Faithful Natural Wild Mutation
rare often Partners
opposites alike Strictness
loose strict Wander
near far Seed
Make family
Family tree
Breed again
Settings…
− Fit +
Click a sound to play it and find it in the cartridge. Hover to see its parents, partner and children.
↻ breeds it again together with everyone below it. Children are drafts until you save the cartridge (or press Save ).