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DW8000@yahoogroups.com, "a_deuteronomy" <radam72850@h...> wrote:
> If all else fails, does anyone recommend a suitable program that's
> relatively idiot proof and still DW8000 compatible? When you think
> of it - wow, that's asking alot: relatively new software to run 20+
> year old hardware...but, you know where I'm coming from.
I'd like to give a serious nod to SoundQuest's MIDIQuest, which after all these years is still
being sold, still has Windows and Mac versions (that even run on old 68k Macs with
System 7) and has the brand new MIDIQuest 9 and XL versions for Win 98, ME, 2000, and
XP. -And watch for a MacOS X version in the future.
MIDIQuest is a full featured Sound Editor and Librarian program that supports hundreds of
instruments including our venerable DW8000 keyboards, the EX8000 module, and sister-
models, the DS-8, DSS-1, Poly 800, EX 800, DW6000, etc.
I have a lot of respect for a company that still sells and supports its products on 20 year
old synths. MOTU's Unisyn also supports our boards, but they don't have a Windows
version, and they took years to come out with bug fixes and updates for their Mac
product.
MIDIQuest 9 is $200, but it supports darn near EVERYTHING under the sun, and just gets
better every day. Think of it as a User-Interface and Librarian upgrade for every MIDI
synth you have now, and every one you'll buy in the future, and it starts looking like a very
inexpensive upgrade!
I got the old $99 MIDIQuest 4 version for Macintosh, and I run it from a 68040 PowerBook
190cs. PowerBook 190cs laptops sell all day long on eBay fro $25US. If someone could
have told me fifteen years ago that for $125 I could have a full-blown graphical patch
editor and librarian for my DW8000, that could also run a sequencer and MIDI patchbay,
I'd have jumped on it. (Think how much you may have paid for an MEX-8000 expansion
module!) Yes, I'm a big fan of this setup, and the PowerBook just sits on a rack shelf next
to my DW8000, and it also handles editing and librarian duties for my DS-8, My EX8000,
my Voce DMI-64 MKII, My Roland D-110, My Ensoniq EPSm, my Yamaha TX81Z, my Kawai
K3m. It's a STEAL!
Check it all out at
http://www.squest.com