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Seeking programmer to revive my old patch editor (Delve)

2007-08-02 by ikhor79

Hello. My name is Brian and I programmed a patch editor in the spring
of 2004 for my XK-6 and the other keyboards. It would be pretty easy
to change it to work for the Xl7 or the racks. They essentially share
the same core patch structure, just some minor differences.

I haven't done any work on the editor since then because of schedule
concerns, and I had a couple of people ask me if I could give them the
source code so they could work on it. At the time I had thought I lost
the source code, but it turns out I found all of it on an old backup
disk. So it's an open invitation for anybody who wants to do some work
on it. I would help out with questions and maybe do some small coding,
etc. We could do an open source license or something to that effect.
(Delve will always be free)

From what I remember the editor is basically finished and does work.
(i used it extensively with my xk-6) It needs a little polishing and
code optimizing/cleanup. It uses the Java sound libraries, and back
then the java sound midi funtions were a little buggy. They have
probably improved since then. The patch dump coding was ineffecient.
It would transfer a dump successfully, but then the editor would go
into a kind of slow motion afterwards until restart.

I still have a color coded printout of the xk-6 patch dump bytes and
their corresponding position and sound parameter in the dump.

Here's an old screenshot of Delve:
http://www.ikhor.com/ikhor/images/delve_screencap.gif

If anyone is interested just shoot me an email at brian@...

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