Welcome to dx.factory V1.0

Introduction

dx.factory is a cross platform Librarian for the Yamaha DX7 series of synthesizers, that allows you to organise your DX data from the comfort of your computer.

dx.factory has been written by me, Derek Cook, and is available exclusively as a free download from www.xfactory-librarians.co.uk. The free version is fully functional apart from the save and export features (including MIDI export) are disabled.  This allows you to evaluate the features of dx.factory to see if you like it before buying it. If you wish to use dx.factory and enable the save and export functions you will need to register dx.factory and pay a shareware registration fee.

dx.factory was written as I have never been able to find a librarian for the DX7II that supports performance mode in the way that I want.

I am greatly interested in user feedback for shaping future versions of dx.factory. Comments and bug reports on the current features of dx.factory and requests for future features can be sent to dx7@xfactory-librarians.co.uk, or they can be posted in the DX7 forums of www.xfactory-librarians.co.uk.

dx.factory is programmed in Java, so it is capable of running on any platform that supports the Java version 1.4 and above.

The application has been developed and tested in JRE 5.0 running on a PC with the Windows XP operating system.

The screen shots you see in this manual have been taken with dx.factory running upon JRE 5.0. The look and feel of the application will vary depending upon your target JRE and computer platform, so don't worry if dx.factory looks slightly different upon your system.