This is the 6th Volume in the Plaits Sound Recipes series, finishing off the oscillator models with the DX7 FM Synthesis modes added as part of the 8 new ORANGE series that came with firmware 1.2. This video is different than the prior, as it doesn't give knob settings to achieve specific sounds, but rather gives a HOW TO guide on curating your own DX7 sounds to load into the 3 models on Plaits which provide DX7 compatible FM Synthesis... and with 32 sounds in each of the models 3, 4 and 5, you can curate 96 (NINETY-SIX!) sounds on each plaits module!
The prior videos in the series covered the GREEN, RED and some of the ORANGE models of plaits and can be found at the following links:
LINKS TO ALL VIDEOS in the series:
- Plaits Red Modes 1-4: https://youtu.be/ZyUkJ5gYcrk
- Plaits Red Modes 5-8: https://youtu.be/YYX_eNTqZgo
- Plaits Green Modes 1-4: https://youtu.be/EvtckC8bLM8
- Plaits Green Modes 5-8: https://youtu.be/wcXJp9Hl31Q
- Plaits Orange Modes 1,2,6,7,8: https://youtu.be/zj3PRlO4ETQ
- Plaits Orange Modes 3, 4, 5: https://youtu.be/dy5gZIQr8kA (THIS VIDEO)
Here's the contents of this Video:
0:00 - Intro & History
1:20 - YES 96 sounds
2:05 - Patch bank overview
2:30 - STEP 1, find sounds
3:25 - STEP 2, Patch Bank Editor
3:45 - STEP 3, load patches
4:22 - STEP 4, select sounds
5:50 - STEP 5, Save sound banks
6:33 - STEP 6, Print sound banks
7:10 - STEP 7, load sounds to Plaits
8:10 - Connect and Load
9:50 - Testing the Sounds
11:00 - peek at sound bank print
The basis for this was the original Cheat Sheet which describes all the controls of ALL 24 models on the firmware 1.2 version of the Plaits. That's not the recipes, but it's a good start to quickly remember the controls of the 24 modes/models.
- Mutable Instruments Firmware 1.2 Cheat Sheet - and link to my curated banks of sounds mentioned in the video: https://rochefsky.com/learnings/plaits
Other Links referred to in the video:
Plaits Sound Bank Editor web app:
https://pichenettes.github.io/plaits-editor/patch_bank.html
https://yamahablackboxes.com/collection/yamaha-dx7-synthesizer/patches/
[this one seems to be gone… leaving it just in case it get reinstated: DX7 Sysex Sound Bank sites:
http://dxsysex.com/SYSEX_DX7/Y/dx7-sysex-Y.php - note this one isn't HTTPS :( ]
Mutable Instruments deprecation timeline for modules:
https://pichenettes.github.io/mutable-instruments-documentation/