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Yes, I had a look at a TX81Z ROM image, to see if that looked feasible, Paul - just scrolling through it with a hex editor. I could spot the presets, though the size of each one seemed to be the wrong number of bytes for a VMEM, going by the TX81Z manual.
I'm not sure I'd bother though. Some of the TX81Z presets are quite good with a keyboard, and mine is always tethered to a PC, so loading them isn't really an issue. The biggest problem is organizing them in a way that lets me find the ones I want again.
Also, the TX81Z only has 24 performance slots... and the WT11 is heavily based around the banks of 32 performances.
What would be really good would be something like a Greymatter board for it, replacing the ROM with FLASH, and letting us write new presets to it. There is quite a bit of unused space in the V1.6 ROM image, for adding more firmware to do it. It would be a lot of work though.
I think I'm more likely to use Martin's banks of WT11 presets just as patches, not performances, on the TX81Z, and I may well use them on the WT11, even though they're in the ROM, because I want to tweak a lot of them, especially removing detune from most of them.
Yamaha were obsessed with detune on the FM synths, and I don't think it works well at all, except maybe for bell sounds. If there was some randomness to it, that would be great, but it's a constant fixed detune, that never varies, so it might was well be an LFO.
Removing all detune, from almost all patches and performances, sounds much better, to me. Of course, if a performance is based on two of the same patch/voice, detuned from each other, I'd probably want to substitute a difference voice, for one of them.
- Andy