What is DXED ?
DXED is a free, simple, non-graphical editor and librarian for the Yamaha DX7 and compatible 6 operator synthesizers.
DXED is an MSDOS PC based program. It will also run under any version of Windows
in an MSDOS window, although DXED's MIDI features are not compatible with Win2000/NT/XP.
If you have come directly to this page you may want to check out my Windows based DX Manager application.
You can run DXED without a MIDI interface, and create, edit
and store voice patches, but to use DXED with your DX7 you will need a hardware
MIDI interface such as a Creative Labs Soundblaster soundcard.
Here's a screenshot:
What can it do for me ?
Here's some of DXED's features :
- Full voice editing and library support for the DX7 and compatible 6 operator synths.
- All voice data edited from a single screen.
- Hear your results on your DX7 as you edit.
- Create and audition new patches automatically..
- Practically unlimited library storage, 100,000+ voices tested.
New this Version
This is Version 2 of DXED and it is a full update of Version1, originally released ( on Compuserv) in 1989.
The program has been substantially rewritten but it retains
the "look and feel" of the original - and also its' tiny footprint of only 25k !
A major enhancement in this version is full support for
all four DX7 file formats. You can now import and export voice data in the Yamaha
32 voice compressed format or a single uncompressed voices, both options either
with or without sysex headers.
DXED was written in 8086 assembler using Eric Isaacson's excellent
A86 compiler.
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