DX Garden

MIDI

Device Model All models get plain DX7 voice sysex for now MIDI out Sounds, banks and controller notes go here Channel Channel the synth listens on SysEx device number Used in sysex; the TX802's is its syex setting MIDI in Receives voice and bank dumps from a synth, to import Controller 1 Move to channel Controller 2 Move to channel Send on select Send each sound to the synth as soon as it's selected Click a row or use ↑↓; the synth always has the selected sound Test note Play the test note after sending a sound 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 Check it Not started yet Note Played by 🔊, P and the MIDI test note Controllers Also play the browser preview 🔊 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.

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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.

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Variations of

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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.

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.

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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 Mutation rareoften Partners oppositesalike Strictness loosestrict Wander nearfar Seed

Family tree

genes from the left parent from the right both blended or mutated · married in

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).

Only available to Patreon members

Patreon memberships for DX Garden are coming soon. Browsing, listening and sending sounds to your synth stay free. Members also get:

• The voice editor, with Quick knobs and every operator setting
• Random sounds, Variations, Family trees and Morph
• Your own ratings, names, categories and hidden sounds
• Saved cartridges, .syx import and requests from your synth
• The browser TX802: eight tone generators, performances, send and read

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