Famous 80s FM synth.
It's loud! It's brash! It's digital! It's the edgy sound of Yamaha's 6-op FM synths, now perfectly emulated by chipsynth OPS7 in a convenient plugin format.
Let it take over your tracks as it took over the airwaves with a storm in 1983. Open the flood gates to a deluge of crisp bass sounds, crystalline bells, soothing electric pianos, and sharp rhythmic clavichords.
You will unleash vast FM landscapes in mere seconds, thanks to the dual-layer system seen only in the most expensive FM keyboards - the Yamaha DX1 and DX5 - giving your music a big, full, lush studio sound.
In addition to a full set of effects, we've given chipsynth OPS7 a game-changing dynamic patch editing system, making FM patch creation easier than ever and removing any need for cumbersome algorithm diagrams. In extended mode, you can also use waveforms from the TX81Z, SY77 and OPL3.
But perhaps you want to load-in one of the thousands of available original Yamaha DX series 6-op patch banks instead?
We've got you covered, with full SysEx bank file support and full hardware SysEx interfacing.
Reviewed By digitalboytn [all]
December 18th, 2021
Version reviewed: 1.006 on Windows
I want to start by saying that this synth really is a DX7....
I played a few notes and was immediately transported back to DX7 land...
I had a few of those synths back in the day and OPS7 nails the sound and the feel exactly...
Being able to load all of the Sysex files is brilliant because there are so many banks of great sounds available that weigh in at just a few KB each...
The editing inside OPS7 is streets ahead of what was available with the hardware and having access to all of the parameters is an invitation to actually program FM sounds...something that was painstaking with the original miniscule LCD...
On a purely practical level, OPS7 is my sort of synth...
The install is only a few MB and it uses a minimal amount of CPU, but the sound is huge with a ton of attitude...
It sits great in the mix and blends and layers well with other instruments, yet it still maintains it's sense of character and definition...
One of the bonuses, is that you can layer two independent engines together a la DX1 and create some very interesting textures with the layers...
I like the focus that Plogue bring to their soft synths...
Their focus is on the sound engine and the dynamics of the instrument with a minimalist GUI and a straight foward interface...
I'm really enjoying using OPS7 and it was easy for it to slot into my existing workflow because it sounds so damn good...
Anybody looking for an FM synth should check out OPS7 because I believe that it is the best DX clone out there and with the improved editing fuctions, one of the finest FM synthesizers ever released...
Thanks for the OPS7 Plogue...
This one's a winner and it gets 5 Stars from me :).
Read ReviewReviewed By weilhalt [all]
November 5th, 2021
Version reviewed: 1 on Windows
For me it is the most authentic and therefore best DX7 emulation so far. The following words are necessary to complete the review and make no sense, neither does the rule.
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So is this like Dexed but with more features and more accurate to the DX7?
OPS7 is the definitive DX7 clone and it is quite a few notches above Dexed on the totem pole...
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