Dexed_cart version 1.

0 by BlackWinny, 2015/01/04 (YYYY/MM/DD)

All these sysex files are (or should be) compatible with Dexed, FM8, and any
emulation (software or hardware) of a synth of the 6-OP family of the Yamaha stuff
which was produced featuring the FM synthesis with 6 operators.

This family included:

- DX7
- DX1
- TX816
- TX216
- TX7
- DX5
- DX7IID
- DX7IIFD
- DX7S
- TX802

You can get many informations about the features of these synths (and their
respective differences) here:
http://www.synthark.org/Yamaha/6op-FM_Family.html

There is already a crowd of compilations of sysex files for the Yamaha DX7 and its
famous family. But all the compilations I have found are absolutely insane... due
to an incredible amount of duplicate files that they contain.

There is even a compilation which gathers not less than 200,000 patches in 5,917
sysex files! But when comes the time to clean that huge collection... it appears
that finally it contains less than 2,000 really different sysex files. Close to
four thousands of the files in that 200K collection are in fact duplicate sysex
files in many sub-collections... and many of them are even present because of
conversions with different applications so with slight different results in the
headers or the footers or their checksums. Many of them are even unusable because
with errors or absent checksums or bad CRC, etc.

The same for the Dave Benson's collection, for the Bobby Blues "All the web"
collection, for the AcidBoxBlues collection, for the Synthzone collection, etc.
Each one contains already tons and tons and tons of dupes files, yes. Not only
dupes of patches... but tons of dupes of sysex themselves!

Here you will find no dupes of sysex themselves. I have hunted them with the
strongest severity.

To make my own collection, that you have under your eyes, I have took:
- That Dx7_200k_collection above
(http://korgpatches.com/patches/kronos/dx7_200k_collection)
- The Bobby Blues website (one of the most interesting ever)
- The Acidboxblues website
- The Dave Benson's DX7 Page
- The synthzone website
- The Chris's Music Site
- The DX7.nl website
- The Atari page from Tim Conrardy
- The Aminet website (the true one)
- And several smaller websites here and there, all providing sysex files as
freewares

All that became a merry jumble (a total of 8,736 sysex files of all sizes and with
several extension names!) where I had to find what was with what, who made what,
who transformed what, who copied what to create a collection without mentioning the
original authors, what was a correct new version of what, what was a failed new
version of what, what works and what doesn't work, what is well named and what is
badly named, what is a complete collection and what is an incomplete collection,
where are the missing files if I had them by chance elsewhere... a titanesque task!
It began in August 2014. A first preliminary version came out in September. And at
last this first real version 1.0 come out now... in January 2015!

This new collection (eh eh... yes, it makes of course a new one!) has at least the
advantage to be almost entirely sorted. Each time it was possible, I sorted by
author. It means that the previous collections (almost all were only compilations
of files which are already elsewhere) have been totally split up... and even
smashed! Because it was in my opinion very important to sort first by author: the
best way to retrieve the uniqueness. And also because a patch is a work of art, and
it is respectful to give back to Caesar what belongs to Caesar, and to give back to
the artist designer what belongs to this artist designer. But even that it doesn't
totally prevent the presence of dupe patches, because a designer can use the same
patch in several sysex creations... and also because there are wonderful sysex
files made to gather patches for an instrument or made to gather superb patches for
a style or music, for example. But each time it was possible I kept in priority the
sysex file made by the creator himself... and removed tons and tons of dupes,
successive and wrong conversions by different tools, etc.

Some sysex files remain sorted by instruments instead of by authors. They are in
the folder "!Instruments" which begins by an exclamation point to remain at the top
of the list of folders. These sysex files are at this place when the author remains
unknown... or when the full sysex file contains all its patches for a specific
instrument or type of instrument or for a style or music. But as soon as I could
know the author, the file went to his personal folder. But several authors created
even some real collections of several sysex files for an instrument, the ensemble
constituting itself a collection specific to that instrument. So of course these
full collections are classed as well... for the sense of practicality.

I have not split any sysex file... It would have been a work for several years,
able to ruin a health or to lead someone to a divorce or to a psychiatric hospital.
And it would have been also a risk to destroy by lack of knowledge some files which
were in fact the original files by a creator. Eh... when you find ten times a same
patch in ten sysex files it is not always possible to know which one is the
original one if you don't have a text file explaining that it is the original.
Unfortunately the DX7 (and its family) did not give the ability to sign a patch in
its structure when exporting it in a sysex.

Some collections remain incomplete. I will try to complete them later, at the
fortune of my discovers on the web... or with your help.

And to end this text, I mention that there is also a folder named "!Unsorted".
Everybody will easily understand what it contains: the files that I have not yet
got the time to sort... or which resist to my searches. It is probable that this
folder contains some duplicate files (by a small difference or because they are new
or old versions) related to some files already sorted. If I find what to do with
them, they will be put at the right place... or removed like the thousands of
duplicate sysex which have already been removed.

If you find clues to help me about some of these unsorted files (or if you find
sorted files wrongly placed or which are duplicates that I have not detected)...
feel free to tell me. This collection is yours as well as mine and I shall be happy
to make successive new versions to enhance and improve that work. And of course
there will be a changelog.
To use this file in Dexed,
1 - Open Dexed.
2 - At the bottom left of Dexed you find a green button labeled "CART". Click it.
3 - Now at the bottom left of Dexed you find a new button labelled "SHOW DIR".
Click it.
4 - You find a directory named "Cartridges". Open it.
5 - Now drag 'n' drop the zip file directly in this directory... and unzip it (you
can unzip a zip file directly from this Finder or Explorer box).
6 - Close the Finder or Explorer box.

READY ! Perhaps that you'll have to relauch Dexed. It depends the DAWs.

To use this file in FM8 (or any other synth having the feature to import DX7
sysex), unzip it and import the result in your synth. That's all.

Today is 2015/01/04 (YYYY/MM/DD) and this version of the file Dexed_Cart.zip is the
1.0.

Jacques PRESTREAU (aka BlackWinny), Paris, France