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Now, even with a measly thousand FM patches, you are probably going to rapidly realize that there’s a lot of duplication, even if none of the patches are precisely identical. Below are the directory names of the top level:
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Each of those files is a DX7 bank which may contain (and usually does contain) 32 patches. In this zip file we have nearly 12,600 files that unzipped occupy a healthy 34 M of disk space. How many patches are in the file? I hesitate to even estimate, but here’s the lowdown. The collection is contained in the file DX7_AllTheWeb.zip, found here:
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Boy, did I come across a whopper! No doubt, this is not the only collection of FM patches available for free download, but once I found it, I felt no incentive to look any further.
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