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		Blackthorn 20 hours ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Jimi Hendrix was a systems engineer To be fair, a lot of that is because the DX7 (or rather, FM synthesis in general) is just absolutely arcane when it comes to programming.

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Slow_Hand 16 hours ago [–]

Yup. FM Synthesis is challenging enough to implement, but doing so on the DX7's interface is a whole other level of frustrating. It's far from the hands-on interfaces of most subtractive or modular synthesizers.

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