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This is the sound everyone heard in the '80's for many recordings.

The DX7 / 9 were also used, but their presets were played by a rack of TX's mostly.

It is a very powerful sounding rack chock full of 8-way presets.

For example I usually used 4 for basses, and 4 for my EPianos.

The TX816 would be mixed w/ my 360 Systems MIDI Bass, where the hardware QX-1 sequencer would play them while I played the Oberheims. You can imagine how FAT they sounded.

Anyway these never show up on ebay and I can probably get a really good price there.

But I will sell this here first, or put it in ebay next week.

DX7's in mint condition go for 200-300 USD on ebay, so I will take 1250 USD + shipping for the rare, but noble TX816.

It works flawlessley after 24 years of use.
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Wow that was fast !!!

The forum member doesn't even have a Scope card.

This place is much faster and better than ebay, if you are willing to part with beloved gear at discounted prices, afterall, if you have made money over the years using it, it doesn't kill you to take a little drop in price for a fast sale using PayPal, etc.

For once in my long career, I have finally been paid several thousand dollars to upgrade to a new and better rig.

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congrats to the lucky buyer, for a moment I was tempted myself...
fully loaded and in mint conditions those are rare and expensive indeed - and I have to admit my respect even for a single generator has grown constantly the more I used it.

As mentioned elsewhere the Yamaha DX200 Groovebox is an excellent (and extremely efficient) patcheditor with realtime control for that thing.
I usually use an editor librarian and dump a preset that sounds promising from the PC to the Groovebox, where it's tweaked in detail with the dials and algorithm switches etc. When finished I read it back from the librarian and collect it in a bank, that can later be moved into the TX7 or 802.
Vintage stuff, but far from outdated

cheers, Tom

I should have known you'd know of it's power.

It was a buyer from Estonia of all places. He tried to tell me that were cheaper and more widely available units in Europe. I told him that the shipping would kill him and he should buy it there.

As I suspected he had never played a game of Texas Hold 'Em B4.

I called his obvious bluff, and naturally he folded.

At least he was smart enough to know it's value, and since he tried to spoof me, I told him a guy offered 1500 USD to hold it until next Friday.

As I suspected he immediately paid. Hell the shipping alone was 239 USD !!!

It's good to know that someone other than SpaceF and I love FM synthesis. The fact is that I can create the sounds I need for EP's in Bluewave, and FM8 sounds pretty good too.

But the raw power of 8 x TX7's ain't nuttin' to mess with, and on a stage there's really no comparison.

It makes the FM8 look like all smoke and no fire.

I love the kind of gritty sound-flavour of the original version.
In fact I once planned to sell the FM heart of the grovebox, a PLG150DX board, because there are no single outs. To compensate I used to send the midi data from the synth track to an external device.

Today I'm glad it didn't sell, as the controllers use a special protocol for the PLG board, that's not understood by external FM synths - except the FM7 (never tried with FM8, tho)
So I have to use the intermediate process on the PLG before sending a modified preset back to the original hardware again.

It's not too much effort (and really worth it), as sometimes the most subtle differences of FM parameters can alter a sound completely - I would have never achieved some of those patches the 'classical' way.

cheers, Tom