The Yamaha AN1x Synthesizer mailing list

Hello!

I am a new arrival on this list and a relatively new AN1x owner, 
having acquired a used one from a colleague for a very good price. I 
mainly have been using it as a MIDI controller but have been 
intrigued by what little I have heard in its presets, and am 
interested in digging deeper.

My first and most important question for now is, are there any 
resources out there for editing and storing AN1x patches that work on 
Mac OS 9 or X?

I currently have Emagic SoundDiver 3.0 and the original Yamaha AN1x 
Editor (1.0 beta) that came on floppy disk with the synth; using both 
has been painful so far. I managed to get the Yamaha editor running 
long enough to upload the Demo patch banks that came on floppy with 
the synth, one by one into the AN1x, so I could move them over to 
SoundDiver. That involved running the pre-OMS Yamaha editor with a 
direct hookup between the AN1x and an old Apple 1in/1out MIDI 
interface, uploading sounds to the AN1x, unhooking the old interface 
and reattaching the AN1x to my OMS-savvy Studio5LX, running 
SoundDiver, creating a new library, downloading and saving the 
patches, rinse, repeat. Urgh.

Having moved everything over to SoundDiver I can now get rid of the 
AN1x editor, but SoundDiver has its own difficulties for me. I don't 
suppose Malte Rogacki is on this list? If so, Malte, can I pick your 
brains about this Adaptation you wrote for the AN1x?

Also, are there patch resources for the AN1x out there in any sort of 
format that SD can understand or import? I like disassembling other 
people's patches to learn how they work, and I have a lot of raw 
material to work with right now, but someday I might want to go 
further afield.

TIA

mike

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