Just bought me the new SWAYED, excited that it'd effectively be the closest thing to an SY-77 I could get my hands on at the moment, but I have a bit of a problem.

While it's been sorta said that older, dumped ROMs of the waveform cards are to be compatible with SWAYED, I tried using the Waveblade optimized wavecards (which are split into 6, 1 one of which being the percussion/drum samples) seen here, however SWAYED either doesn't accept that file form factor, or isn't detecting it at all. Honestly doesn't help that the manual for SWAYED doesn't specify the appropriate file formats, let alone if they need to be condensed unlike the Waveblade converted .BIN files I tried using.

I'll provide a screenshot of the folder I had placed the BIN files that SWAYED suggest I place the additional ROMs.

Otherwise, this is a promising softsynth emulation, even with this oddity in my path to being some kind of an SY-77 puritan, lol.

Any and all help is greatly appreciated!

 

Download the original bins, put them in the Swayed Waveforms folder, now they show up in the "Waveform ROM" page and everywhere where you can choose a sample to use.

I didn't have a problem. But I don't know what other custom Waveblade bins you are using - try with the official Yamaha ones first.

(Note - you're showing the Yamaha Factory content roms, this doesn't show up under "Expansions" because it's not expansion content - instead it shows up as "Preset 77" ("Preset" is Swayed's own version of the sample content).

 

If I may ask, do you have a source of those same ROMs you used? Even using one from DBWBP.com doesn't seem to yield any promising results. Thanks in advance.

Edit: I got it figured out. Many thanks.

 

Last edited: Apr 12, 2026 at 7:35 PM

YAMAHA - SY77
A L L T H E W E B P A T C H E S C O L L E C T I O N
https://bobbyblues.recup.ch/yamaha_sy77/sy77_patches.html

 

Apologies. Thank you for the note. That solved it.

 

These are patches - the OP was talking about the ROMS (sample content) - different thing.
It looks like he's sorted now anyway.