This DX7 Cartridge Does Not Exist
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This DX7 Cartridge Does Not Exist
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#3Awesome! I tried to do this for my final year project back in 2018 but failed miserably. To the author: well done, this is really cool!
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#5Can someone give me a short explanation as to what this is and why it is significant?
It looks quite interesting. I am basically looking for the ELI5 because I have never heard of a DX7 before and I don't know what the file that I was prompted to download was about.
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#6Can someone give me a short explanation as to what this is and why it is significant? It looks quite interesting. I am basically looking for the ELI5 because I have never heard of a DX7 before and I don't know what the file that I was prompted to download was about.
It appears to generate ROM (cartridge) images, which I'm guessing are sound patches, for a vintage Yamaha FM synthesizer -- A model which was extremely popular and ubiquitous a few decades ago.
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#7Can someone give me a short explanation as to what this is and why it is significant? It looks quite interesting. I am basically looking for the ELI5 because I have never heard of a DX7 before and I don't know what the file that I was prompted to download was about.
If you scroll down a bit there's more info: https://www.thisdx7cartdoesnotexist.com/#faq
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#8It .. asks me to download something when I click generate.
Is that supposed to happen?
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I thought it was going to be a picture of the cartridge.
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#9Can someone give me a short explanation as to what this is and why it is significant? It looks quite interesting. I am basically looking for the ELI5 because I have never heard of a DX7 before and I don't know what the file that I was prompted to download was about.
FM synthesisers like the DX7 are notoriously difficult to program compared to other types. There are many parameters to tweak and it can be hard to get an intuition about how each will change the sound. There's also a wide subspace of the possible parameter settings that sounds very bad/not musical.
This project seems to take a bunch of manually designed presets that sound good and use them to train a model on what sounds good, so it can make up new presets.
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#10Well, I have to say:
(1) This looks interesting. I had no idea any of this existed.
(2) For the level of awesome, this is the worst-documented ecosystem I've stepped into in a long while. I hope some random user volunteers to make really nice documentation at some point. This could go from awesome to a lot awesomer.
I looked for MIDI synthesizer a while back, and never ran into dexed. I suspect I'll have a lot of fun with this at some point.