Sounds · DX7 banks
Classic DX7 banks.
Forty years of DX7 sounds load onto your FM-1. Drop a .syx bank to hear its 32 voices here, then put the whole bank into A, B, C or D. What's there is backed up first.
Switching the FM-1 on…
Every bank that goes onto your FM-1 is backed up in this browser first: Backups.
Links only
Where to find sounds.
Free DX7 voices on their makers' own pages. Download a .syx file there, then drop it above. Each link was checked on 3 October 2026; the status is what the page itself says.
Factory
The sounds the DX7 shipped with.
- Dave Benson's DX7 page
The factory banks as .syx, plus a large archive of older banks: hundreds of 32-voice sets in many formats.
Public domain, as the page states it
Community collections
Big archives, searchable, gathered over decades.
- Bobby Blues: DX7 patches
About 15,000 voices in 468 banks, plus the patches printed in 1980s keyboard magazines.
Public domain, as the curator states it
- patches.fm
A search over about 26,000 DX7 voices with the duplicates taken out. Find by name, then save the voice as .syx.
Licence not stated
- Dexed cartridges (Dexed_cart 1.0)
A big compilation of DX7 cartridges sorted for Dexed, the factory ones included. Linked from the Dexed page.
Licence not stated
Artists
Banks their makers give away.
- Brian Eno's patches, recreated
Eno's four patches from Keyboard magazine in 1987 (Kalimba, Tamboura, Violin, Glide), with links to more free banks.
Free from the author, licence not stated
- 32 DX7 drum sounds (Chadwick Wood)
One bank of FM drums: kicks, snares, hats, toms, all velocity sensitive. Good on a sound track next to a kit.
Free from the author, licence not stated
- The Introvert: Deep DX banks
19 banks, about 600 voices: pianos, pads and studies of each algorithm.
Free to use in your music; not to be resold or shared on as they are
- Vivolator: famous patches
Well-known sounds from records, rebuilt for the DX7 and Dexed.
Free from the author, licence not stated
- Dark Side of Synth: sci-fi sounds vol. 1
Old-school science fiction effects and textures for DX7-compatible synths.
Free from the author, licence not stated
Tools
Make your own, or bring cartridges with them.
- Dexed
The free DX7 plugin and librarian. Edit a voice, then save it, or a whole cartridge, as .syx. Comes with cartridges built in.
Open source (GPL 3)
- hexter
An open-source DX7 emulator for Linux that ships the DX7 and TX7 factory voices.
Open source (GPL 2 or later)
- Synthmata FM editor
A free editor in the browser, with a randomiser. It saves single voices (not banks) as .syx.
Free to use
Made your own in Dexed? Dexed saves a single voice or a whole cartridge as .syx. Drop either one here, as it is. More on how the FM-1 takes them: Sending DX7 sounds.