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- NATIVE INSTRUMENTS FM7 1.1 FOR MAC
- NATIVE INSTRUMENTS FM7 1.1 INSTALL
- NATIVE INSTRUMENTS FM7 1.1 GENERATOR
- NATIVE INSTRUMENTS FM7 1.1 MOD
- NATIVE INSTRUMENTS FM7 1.1 MANUAL
To load DX sounds from your drive, click the 'Import SysEx' button. At boot‑up, you're in Library mode, the screen filled with Preset names (see screenshot above). The central Editing Window can behave in one of several ways, depending on what you're doing. You can even fold up the Editing window and keyboard when not needed, with two dedicated buttons. Smaller LCDs show the harmonic content and waveform of the current Preset, which is attractive and sometimes informative during Preset editing. The information display includes a large virtual LCD showing the current Preset's name, plus a scrollable list of FM7 facts, including CPU usage and descriptive notes on the Preset (the latter can be added during editing). Your computer's keyboard can also be used polyphonically. The keys move in response to MIDI activity, and mouse‑clicking on the keyboard plays FM7.
NATIVE INSTRUMENTS FM7 1.1 MOD
On booting up FM7, you'll see a large window divided into three: a general information display, a large Editing Window, and a 61‑note keyboard with pitch‑bend and mod wheels. One other element has the appearance of an operator, and is unexpected in an FM synth: an audio input that allows external audio to modulate or be modulated by other operators, and even itself, courtesy of a Feedback control.
NATIVE INSTRUMENTS FM7 1.1 GENERATOR
One (labelled X) contains a noise generator and can produce distortion, while the other (Z) offers two modelled resonant filters the DX7 was notoriously lacking in the filter department. There are also two extra 'operators' that can interact with the others. Each operator produces one of 32 waveforms (DX7 operators could only produce sine waves), and is equipped with a flexible envelope generator. Like the DX7, FM7 is a six‑'operator' synth (you can compare an operator to an oscillator, in analogue terms). And if you're an inveterate DX Preset collector, thousands are downloadable from the Net. Custom sound design shouldn't be a problem with this software synth, but Native have provided a decent collection of factory voices: 256 that really show off what FM7 can do, 128 inherited from the DX7 and its ROM cards, and 32 from the DX200.
NATIVE INSTRUMENTS FM7 1.1 MANUAL
The manual is rather woolly here, but you can use FM7 multitimbrally with a sequencer - more on this later.įM7 is compatible with the DX7, and can load patches created for this and nearly every other Yamaha FM instrument, including the recent DX200. However, the multitimbrality situation is different. Multitimbrality, key‑splitting and layering weren't available with the original DX7, and the FM7 stays true to two of these - it lacks layering and key‑splitting, although some standard DX7 'key‑scaling' tricks allow operator stacks to be spread across the keyboard for a fair key‑split simulation. However, NI have made many enhancements to their FM implementation, including simple effects.įM7 offers polyphony of up to 99 notes, though high polyphony values increase CPU overhead. The chocolate‑brown colour scheme, the green buttons, and even the logo will be familiar to DX7 owners. Yamaha's 1983 DX7, the mass‑market flagship for the DX range, is the starting point for FM7.
NATIVE INSTRUMENTS FM7 1.1 INSTALL
The software comes on a dual‑format CD‑ROM, with a paper manual, and was straightforward to install on our Mac. On the Mac, Sound Manager, ASIO, VST, MAS and DirectConnect compatibility are provided, and on the PC, FM7 works with software that conforms to the VST, DXi and MME standards.
NATIVE INSTRUMENTS FM7 1.1 FOR MAC
The BasicsįM7 is available for Mac and PC, and functions as a stand‑alone instrument or plug‑in. Now it's back with a vengeance, better sounding and easier to use than ever before, in the form of the Native Instruments FM7 software synth.
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Following its gigantic Yamaha‑led popularity of the 1980s, Frequency Modulation synthesis fell out of favour in the '90s. It happened with analogue, and for the past couple of years it's been happening with FM. When something in synthesis is good, even if it goes out of fashion you can be sure it'll be back. So how does FM7 measure up to the original DX? Virtual analogue plug‑in synths are now common, and as DX‑style FM was the next great leap forward for real synths, a virtual FM synth was only a matter of time. The green buttons select different editing pages. The keyboard and/or central section can be 'folded' if desired. FM7's main screen, showing the Library window for loading and choosing Presets.