Yamaha DX-200?

[Andy's Eyebrow]

How's the Yamaha DX-200? Good knobby FM fun as advertised? Looks to be a fun little box with the sequencer and good controls for learning FM.

[ripe]

I like mine. I got it to replace my DX100, and it does the job. A lot of the parameters I want to tweak are not available on the front panel, so I use the editor. The drum sounds are, eh, as well as the pattern sequencer. It will do in a pinch, but it's not very fun.

 

The outputs are nice and noise-free (unlike aforementioned DX100). I wish it ran on batteries, the manual is idiotic. Good jungle and sub basses, and organs of course.

 

cheers

ripe

[zoink]

The DX200 is a lot of fun. I have two FS1R's besides, but still enjoy the DX200 because of its layout and format. You can get them now for half of what I originally paid, and they're well worth it.

 

Fun little box. Also goes great with the AN200 and the RS7000.

[Meatball Fulton]

The AN/DX200 have a bug where notes falling on the first beat after a pattern change in the sequencer can be lost.

 

Having owned the PLG150-AN board used inside the AN-200, I think this has to do with it's relatively slow response to patch changes. That's probably why Yamaha never was able to fix the bug and eventually discontinued the boxes.

[Metrosonus]

if you get one, stick the card into a motif or something.. the ADACs suck on the boxes..

 

the card is the same as the PLG ones.. they are awesome within a motif or CS6

[ChristianRock]

Wow, that machine sounds like it's a lot of fun! I love a lot of the FM sounds, they still sound very fresh and new.

I hadn't thought of a groove boxe as a rack module. That tells you how thick I can be...

[Meatball Fulton]

ithe card is the same as the PLG ones.. they are awesome within a motif or CS6

 

Sadly you lose the knobby programming interface when you stuff it into a Motif or CS6

[zoink]

Sadly you lose the knobby programming interface when you stuff it into a Motif or CS6

 

That's precisely why I didn't gut mine and install it in my Motif. The difference in sound quality never bothered me since I don't use any of my drum machines or groove boxes for recording. They're just for fun, and for working up rhythms and bass lines.

[OPEN OCEAN]

FM is always cool so why not about the dx 200 too ?

[Mothra75]

A 16-voice 6-op FM synth with sample playback, filters, fx and sequencer? Yes please!

[wildpaws]

A 16-voice 6-op FM synth with sample playback, filters, fx and sequencer? Yes please!

 

Your description sounds just like an SY99!

Clyde

[mildbill]

I had a DX200 for a while. Pretty fun little box if you don't mind having to use a computer to completely edit it.

A lot of people gut them, but I hate to see it done, because it was available as a plug-in card, and if you take it out of the 200, you end up with a somewhat worthless shell.

If you leave it in the box, you keep all the knobs like meatball said.

 

I never experienced that 'start of next sequence' glitch - but I've heard that a lot of people did.

[gilwe]

I'd consider FM7/8 when going modern FM... Or just get a DX7

[Andy's Eyebrow]

I just got FM8 and have been tinkering with it for a little while... which got me interested in the DX-200. Seemed like a fun little all-in-one knobby box to tinker with when the computer wasn't on. And the sequencer interface looks like it would be great for tweaky rhythms and such.

 

Though I think I'm getting spoiled with the completely modular algorithm matrix of FM8 vs. having to choose from a crapload of pre-wired ones.

 

And as a side note... I'm building patches from scratch. I have no interest in presets or old DX-7 libraries.