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Alternative firmware ROM for the Yamaha DX9 that restores the functionality of the DX7

6 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 0 stories, 6 comments · first 2023-07-15 · latest 2025-10-20

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  1. …technical jigsaw puzzle. In my case, it also led to me being able to release a fun firmware mod: https://github.com/ajxs/yamaha_dx97 In case anyone is curious about how I worked, I wrote a bit of a tutorial article:…
  2. …stuck when directly connected to a synth. 0: https://midi.teragonaudio.com/tech/midispec/run.htm 1: https://github.com/ajxs/yamaha_dx97
    comment by ajxs · 2024-04-28 · in Synth wars: The story of MIDI (2023)
  3. …A new firmware ROM that makes the DX9 function more like a DX7: https://github.com/ajxs/yamaha_dx97
  4. …in the TRS-80, which the author is writing code for (for this project in case anyone is wondering: https://github.com/ajxs/yamaha_dx97 ). I ran into the exact same issue. I wrote a MAME driver for the target platform, so I could test my…
    comment by ajxs · 2023-11-29 · in Unit testing on an 8-bit CPU
  5. …is another story though. I wrote a MAME driver for the Yamaha DX9 while working on this project: https://github.com/ajxs/yamaha_dx97 I wrote a little bit about the project here in case anyone is interested:…
    comment by ajxs · 2023-10-25 · in MAME 0.260
  6. …is curious, my latest successful work is hacking the Yamaha DX9 to have the full DX7 feature set: https://github.com/ajxs/yamaha_dx97