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Some KQ Dixie (iOS DX7) love...


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I see this has been briefly mentioned a couple of times here, and after grabbing it and fiddling around with it, loading a bunch of DX7 sysex banks into it, and understanding how really powerful yet easy to work with this is, I find it deserves quite a bit more of attention!

 

A multitimbral DX7 with huge polyphony, what more could one ever dream about!!

 

This video popped up in my flow and was what made it get my attention, check it out!

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16 minutes ago, CyberGene said:

I’ve owned this for ages but never used it. I remember the lack of any reverb (it only has delay IIRC) was what I thought was a huge omission. 

 

If you run it in a host like AUM that's an easy fix, I run this one:

 

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/adverb2/id1373926760

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And I found the secret sauce for those big creamy DX electric pianos we heard in the 80's, and for only a handful of bucks in the app store... Never even got close with chorus or ensemble effects, and with this one it was head on the nail right away!

 

https://www.eventideaudio.com/plug-ins/micropitch/

 

 

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I liked dexed when I used a windows machine. Too bad the ios version has very low stars and is reviewed as unreliable even now in the year 24. 

I have kq Dixie as well but I find it kind of weak sounding. Of course there are many ways to beef it up like limiting it or layering in AUM ect.

I find King of FM overall a little stronger and more punchy when I want a dx7 vibe. It's cool to have something that can load syx cartridges though. There are buckets of those online. 

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How do you mean weak? To me it sounds pretty darn identical to the old brown monster, however with higher resolution like the DX7II. Though in general I disable the filter as imho it doesn't really do anything interesting or good with the overall sound, I find it just muffles everything even when fully open.

 

Then I run a channelstrip with gain/comp/eq after, we shall not forget that everything we ever heard in popular music from this era, was always going through a console and often some tasty analog outboard as well, I would definitely do the same with the brown monster if I happened to have to use one.

 

 

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Where is Major Tom?

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1 hour ago, Baldwin Funster said:

Weak as if the velocity was only going to 100 instead of 127. 

 

Did you try fiddling with the velocity curve (press misc button) ?

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The thing I really like with this model is that it's very far from clean and perfect, I would call it "organic" it's "alive".

 

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Where is Major Tom?

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PC3, HX3 w. B4D, 61SLMkII, SL73, Prologue 16, KingKORG, Opsix, MPC Key 37, DM12D, Argon8m, EX5R, Toraiz AS-1, IK Uno, Toraiz SP-16, Erica LXR-02, QY-700, SQ64, Beatstep Pro

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