Classic FM Sounds Reimagined on the Elektron Digitone – with Free DX7-ish Sound Pack for Digitone

In April 2022, I bought my first FM synth: An Elektron Digitone. To learn how FM sound design works, I decided to try to recreate some classic FM sounds, mostly from the 1980s; more specifically, the years 1984 to 1986, which were drenched in Yamaha DX7 sounds. You can hear some results in this video, and download most sounds for free here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZZUz...

00:00 - Intro
00:40 - Money for Nothing (Dire Straits)
02:28 - Mild und Leise (Paul Lansky)
02:55 - Idioteque (Radiohead)
03:37 - Africa (Toto)
04:11 - What’s Love Got to Do with It (Tina Turner)
05:15 - Don’t Leave Me (Blackstreet)
05:51 - Axel F (Harold Faltermeyer)
06:36 - Matching DX7 sounds with DEXED
07:41 - Take On Me (a-Ha)
08:20 - Nightshift (Commodores)
08:56 - Got A Match? (Chick Corea)
09:12 - Sound matching, part II - Strings 2
09:59 - One Vision (Queen)
10:45 - If You Love Somebody Set Them Free (Sting)
11:07 - Sound matching, part III - E-Piano 1
11:53 - Shadows in the Rain (Sting/Kenny Kirkland solo)

Sorry for using DT as short version of “Digitone” in the vid ... DT is normally rather used for the DigiTakt, Digitone would be DN instead.

All songs © by their original writers and publishing companies; covered here in the framework of fair use for educational purposes.

Next to researching on Google and Wikipedia, I got a lot of background info from this video:    • ORIGIN OF THE DX7 & FM SYNTHESIS  

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