Hi,
I am the author of an.factory over at www.xfactory-librarians.co.uk
These programs are Java based, so run on Windoze, OS X (I develop on a Mac) and Linux.
They currently are librarian only (i.e. no editing), but now I have finished pretty much all I can on librarian functions, I'm just finishing off Wave/Sample support for the SY99 and I am thinking of moving to create editors.
Out of my Yamaha equipment list of SY99/TG77/EX5/Motif Rack ES/FS1r and AN1x, the latter two are the least easy to program on the front panel, with the FS1r by far being the worst. The AN1x and FS1r are also probably easier to start with in terms of making an editor as they have relatively simple architectures and fewer parameters/permutations compared to the others.
However, I don't use the FS1r much (but won't sell!), so might be persuaded to look at the AN1x first if any interest is shown.
So, if anybody is interested in an updated cross platform editor for the AN1x let me know! I was also thinking of once I had the computer editor up and running, to provide some form of iPad integration so you could use it as a control surface when editing, but one step at a time....
Cheers
Rerek
--- In AN1x-list@yahoogroups.com, Sean King <skseanking1@...> wrote:
>
> its really silly there is no mac osx an1xeditor and it is only for ppc...
> it cant be that hard to port to mac osx and its a shame that whoever made
> the program won't just fork over the source code.... if the source code
> could be available somehow, that'd be great.
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Gerald Raucamp <yahoogroups@...>wrote:
>
> > ∗∗
> >
> >
> > On Sun Oct 20 2013, Benjamin Lee <lvbnjmn@...> wrote:
> > > Hi Bill, and list
> > >
> > > Thanks so much for the reply and update. I appreciate that. Too bad
> > about the inability to receive the parameter info. For me it would
> > certainly still be very useful to access the settings at all because I have
> > an AN200 without access to many parameters, or the ability to use the AN
> > Editor on Mac osx. And I tend to like to make my patches from scratch, and
> > with TBMS, at least one can create an 'Init' template, save as default
> > settings, and 'send current settings' to have all settings of the synth and
> > editor be congruent to start.
> > >
> > > Alas, I am inexperienced with SysEx and find it daunting to create a
> > page/canvas for all the Params of the AN engine, though if you're willing
> > to share what you've got so far, I'd be happy to study it as an example and
> > work at contributing to it. I am a quick study :). Anyway, thanks for your
> > work, Bill.
> > >
> > > Best regards, Benjamin
> >
> > Hi Benjamin,
> >
> > It should be possible to run an1xeditor on OSX, you would just need to
> > have some kind of XP license somewhere, or old windows 95/98 cdrom. And
> > something like Virtualbox.
> >
> > Add in some proper usb-midi device, which you can passthrough with
> > virtualbox to the windows installation, and you should be all good to go
> > :)
> >
> > If you have an old laptop or computer with an unused Windows XP license,
> > you're in business the official way (I've reused some old Dell OEM XP
> > license from a laptop I have lying around, ok so it's not entirely
> > official, since it isn't running on the laptop, which is running ubuntu,
> > but hey :P)
> >
> > Good luck :)
> >
> > --
> > Gerald Raucamp - cavey@...
> > http://www.cavey.nl
> >
> >
> >
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