[sdiy] For you FM synthesis fans

[Ben Lincoln]

[ now from correct email address ]

On Mon, November 17, 2014 2:09 pm, eidorian at aladan.net wrote:

> What a coincidence - only yesterday in an unrelated conversation a
> friend of mine mentioned he had a copy of that very software (which was
> apparently quite expensive to buy, back in the day).  I think he said it
> only runs on Windows 98, so get your old hardware and/or Virtual
> Machines out :-)

Supposedly Sound Diver 3.05 will run on Windows 7
(https://www.gearslutz.com/board/music-computers/893643-anyone-running-sounddiver-windows-8-a.html),
so it's not quite that bad. It looks like that was a public beta that can
still be downloaded from a few places.

It's too bad Sound Diver disappeared after Apple bought it. It was much
nicer to work with than the hardware controls on a lot of 80s/90s synths,
and sometimes even enabled functionality that wasn't possible otherwise,
like giving full control over the Juno 106 engine hidden in the MKS-7.
Obviously there are individual software editors for a lot of synths, but
having one application that supported all of them in a common format was
really great.