bakemono wrote:

Does anyone know of a Windows program that can be used to set the user-defined instruments in an old Yamaha DX synthesizer? The DX100 manual says that it's possible to do this through midi. If there is no program around then I may have to write one... because entering the values on the keypad takes way too long, and I want to try some register settings from OPN/OPM tracks which chips have nearly identical functionality to the DX100.

If it's through MIDI, it likely is as simple as using a DAW and recording the MIDI output when dumping the patches.

Note that that will likely not be the same format as the register settings you seem to expect.

DX Manager from FM-Alive is what you want:
http://www.fm-alive.com/Pages/DXM.aspx

cyclone3d wrote:

DX Manager from FM-Alive is what you want:
http://www.fm-alive.com/Pages/DXM.aspx

Thanks, this can work... although I'm still thinking about making a command line util to save/load instruments in a text file just to make things easier.

bakemono wrote:

cyclone3d wrote:

DX Manager from FM-Alive is what you want:
http://www.fm-alive.com/Pages/DXM.aspx

Thanks, this can work... although I'm still thinking about making a command line util to save/load instruments in a text file just to make things easier.

Perhaps reading this might be useful at this stage:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIDI

MIDI is not merely some kind of configuration file like you would use with a MS-DOS program.