Yamaha TX7 Synthesizer Tone Module

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"To play music using the sounds from this module, you simply connect a standard MIDI cable from the MIDI output of your music keyboard to the MIDI IN jack on the back of this unit. There is no built-in speaker, so to hear the music you're playing you'll need to connect the quarter-inch audio Output jack on the back of the unit to a mixer or amp. Alternatively, there is a quarter-inch headphone jack on the back of the unit, so you could listen through headphones without needing a mixer or amp.

You can find thousands of free patches online that can be downloaded into the TX7. Just look for any System Exclusive files (also known as Sysex or .SYX files) for the DX7 keyboard, and you should be able to load sounds right into the TX7 from your computer (assuming you have some kind of MIDI OUT port on your computer and a MIDI cord). In particular, you may want to look for "Dave Benson's DX7 Page" which has one big zip file with thousands of sound patches.

There are also a lot of free or low-cost computer programs available you can use on your computer as "editor/librarian" software (this lets you organize all the free patches you can download and edit existing patches to create your own new sounds). Just search for "DX7 editor librarian" and anything you find should work with the TX7 as well.

The TX7 stores 32 sound patches at a time, and you change between them with the buttons on the front of the unit."







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