Uploaded May 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
My sound patches: espenkraft.com • Stock, Aitken and Waterman used a lot of DX7 basses in their hits. In interviews in the 80s they would occasionally talk about their cartridge with DX7 bass patches and how no one would get access to it.
Many decades later and the patches can now be found online. Just to make sure I asked Phil Harding if he was able to verify that these are indeed the real mythical patches and he, in turn, asked Ian Curnow. Ian Curnow is of course the guy that actually did the programming of most of it. He also made the Fairlight patches/sounds for "Never Gonna Give You Up" which uses one of these bass patches. Ian Curnow did confirm this is it.
For more info definitely watch my long interview with Phil Harding and Ian Curnow here on my channel.
Don't ask me for a copy of this cart. These are not my patches to give away (nor to sell), but you should be able to find them online with a bit of Googling.
I'm using the Velocity Converter from MIDI Solutions between the DX7s and the TX802 so I can use the mod wheel to control the timbre brightness. I use the DX7s as a master keyboard to play the TX802 which hold the patches.
Check out this video to learn more: youtu.be/oLgvYJC-e7g
My sound patches: espenkraft.com • Stock, Aitken and Waterman used a lot of DX7 basses in their hits. In interviews in the 80s they would occasionally talk about their cartridge with DX7 bass patches and how no one would get access to it.
Many decades later and the patches can now be found online. Just to make sure I asked Phil Harding if he was able to verify that these are indeed the real mythical patches and he, in turn, asked Ian Curnow. Ian Curnow is of course the guy that actually did the programming of most of it. He also made the Fairlight patches/sounds for "Never Gonna Give You Up" which uses one of these bass patches. Ian Curnow did confirm this is it.
For more info definitely watch my long interview with Phil Harding and Ian Curnow here on my channel.
Don't ask me for a copy of this cart. These are not my patches to give away (nor to sell), but you should be able to find them online with a bit of Googling.
I'm using the Velocity Converter from MIDI Solutions between the DX7s and the TX802 so I can use the mod wheel to control the timbre brightness. I use the DX7s as a master keyboard to play the TX802 which hold the patches.
Check out this video to learn more: youtu.be/oLgvYJC-e7g
