Best Patch Editor/Librarian

[sleepwalker]

So.. I'm looking for some software that will allow me to easily recall self-made patches on my hardware synths. K2500, MKS-80, Oberheim Matrix-1000, Novation Nova.

For the most part, I can just use the internal banks on the synths, but I've got TONS of patches and often end up saving rough patches that I need to tweak in order to use.

SoundDiver? Logic Environments? Unisyn? Something new?

The market has been leaving hardware synths behind, so I'm thinking about dedicating an obsolete machine to this task(G3, P3, etc.) Ideally a laptop, but whatever. If the computer could double as a good midi sequencer, that would be cool too.

Any suggestions short of, "move to soft synths?"

I usually commit my hardware synths to audio immediately, so this didn't use to be much of a problem, but I now need session recall for a few projects.

[alexstringer]

I heard Soundiver was a good midi editor but they stopped updating their line of patches years ago and didn't released any OsX version. Most Mac user used it because it was the only Midi editor software at the time on this plateform. To my surprise, Midi quest Xl released a version for Mac now, which now makes it multiplateform. What IS tricky with this program is that you have to deal with multi client midi and install a Midi driver like Midi yoke and an application called Midi Ox to make it work and trust me, it's a pain in the ass to set up properly.

[teknosmoker]

I use Sounddiver in the Classic environment of OS X with no problem. You cannot chain it to Logic with it like you could in OS 9, but I don't find that to be a showstopping problem.


I'd love to use a solid OS X editor/librarian (not having to use Classic) - Is MidiQuest stable and as intuitive as Sounddiver?

-T

[TeReKeTe]

there's a bunch of logic environments avail. on the web, which can def. be helpful. unfortunately it's not the most elegant of methods...can get confusing really easily.

works great for simple stuff like the microkorg, though. the jv1080's another story...

[sleepwalker]

There isn't much of a market justification for these things anymore. Kind of a bummer. I used Sound Diver on the PC years ago and it was buggy, but seemed to work.

Integration with a sequencer isn't paramount for me. I don't mind manually recalling patches before I mix, I just want access to more patches and the ability to tweak some synth that are impossible to tweak without an editor(matrix-1000)

Originally Posted by TeReKeTe

there's a bunch of logic environments avail. on the web, which can def. be helpful. unfortunately it's not the most elegant of methods...can get confusing really easily.

works great for simple stuff like the microkorg, though. the jv1080's another story...

[pounce]

i'd think good editor librarians would work just fine with softsynths as well as actual hardware synths. therefore, i think they are still relevent. and i'd sure like to have soundiver or some other full featured software show up for osx. i have the beta of soundiver, but it's never been very satisfying. unisyn was great a long time ago, but it doesn't have much support and it doesn't deal with enough of my synths.

[Coil]

u can get the last version of sounddiver for mac os x 4 free:

http://download.info.apple.com/Apple...ta%202.app.sit

but u must have an xskey to use it !

[ignatius]

motu's unisyn is great. i've used it some here and there and it works really well and is updated to work on today's OS's.. as far as my experience goes...

[Luko]

i'd like to know more about Unisyn, it says its for mac and windows but on the motu website they only have mac osx versions for sale and download???

anything recent that works for pc, my copy of sounddiver is dodgey as

cheers