I will say—my personal experience, in dissecting DX7 presets, is that feedback is not really used that much. If you are porting DX7 sounds to a different architecture, you can remove the feedback and replace it with something like a noise source, or another operator, much of the time, or even remove it altogether.
This is just my personal experience. I often dig through DX7 patches in order to reimplement them for demoscene projects.
Sounds like you’re getting good use out of the TX81Z. I have the TX802, which is on paper a better synth, but controlling it from a DAW is much more of a pain because the program change messages control the “performance”, rather than the patch. So it’s been exiled from my rack, at least for now.
Agreed, and what's more: back then it wasn't all that apparent, the fact that they're still playing almost 40 years later is what proves it, most other gear - even very high end - from that era is long gone.
This is just my personal experience. I often dig through DX7 patches in order to reimplement them for demoscene projects.
Sounds like you’re getting good use out of the TX81Z. I have the TX802, which is on paper a better synth, but controlling it from a DAW is much more of a pain because the program change messages control the “performance”, rather than the patch. So it’s been exiled from my rack, at least for now.