Yamaha now has manuals available as Acrobat Reader PDF files, for download from their site. Where can I get a manual for my old keyboard?Ī. Dave Benson's page has more info on SYSEX patch formats. syx files with the above sysex utilities, and these RAW files if you have another utility. If you do not have a manual for your model of keyboard, go through the MIDI menus in programming mode, and look for the 'sysex dump' settings, you should be able to send and receive dumps.syx files may be the easiest to work with because they have the original data as it was dumped from the keyboard (ie some programs strip off the header info).

If you don't have your keyboard patches saved, ie on a cartridge or on a diskette, do a bulk dump of these sounds BEFORE you go uploading any others, because uploading sounds will erase all the sounds you have on your keyboard right now. Alternatively you can go hunting on the internet. Where to find the sounds to upload: I have packaged two versions of my sounds that I got with my keyboard, in Mac Stuffit format (71K) and PC Winzip format (51K).

A bank of sounds that was saved by a sysex program: open the bulk sysex file on your computer, upload these from your computer to your keyboard and you're done.

I recommend Dumpster for Windows, and Bulk Sysex for Macintosh.

Sysex utility program: program that runs on your computer and communicates with your keyboard via MIDI.

You must go into the edit mode of your keyboard and put it in the menu for uploading and downloading sysex bulk dumps. Just the interface, no expensive sequencing software is necessary. Your local music store should be able to help you out.

MIDI interface: connects your computer to your keyboard.

A sysex bulk dump is all the patches dumped from the keyboard at once. This is working with system exclusive files, or sysex for short. I heard that you can find patches and soundbanks on the internet and load them in through MIDI, but how do I go about doing this?Ī. When you load new sounds on the original sounds are overwritten. As far as I know, the original sounds are not burnt into the ROM. Is there something I can do to restore the factory sounds on my DX7? Is there a startup key sequence to initialize the DX7's preset sounds?Ī. I just got an old keyboard and I want to get the original sounds for it, the sounds that came with it when it was new.

There are several third-party companies who are licensed to sell sounds for discontinued keyboards. I have never used E! so I cannot give any advice on it. What can you tell me about the E! card? Are you familiar with it and do you have a manual for it?Ī. Here are answers for questions that I get asked from time to time.

How to store dx7 patches on computer