Yeah, the last MIDIQuest discussions were back in 2004 or so (I was actually part of one of them, it seems, talked about MOTU Unisyn working okay - has it been that long?).
Anyway, I was hoping for some user experiences from the past year or so. I sold my Unisyn long ago (about the time I switched over to Logic from DP) and it’s not worth buying again for editing one synth. Besides, the free Proteum editor works fine in Windows XP on Parallels. I haven’t tried the free Mac OS X native Prodatum yet, but I’m sure it works fine as well. A computer editor for the XL-7 is not much of a need, I’m just kind of keen on the idea of having most of my hardware synths as AUs.
The two words I see most often in discussions regarding MIDIQuest are “buggy” and “expensive”. I’ve seen MIDIQuest XL 10 available for about $240 or so - it might be worth that if I could have my hardware act like plug-ins with full recall in Logic. I guess the only way to really know is to try the demo. I haven’t got around to installing it on my iMac yet - that’s this weekend. Hopefully the demo is fully functional and not hobbled - they don’t say what restrictions it has in their demo download area.
I’ll let y’all know what happens in case you’re interested.
On May 27, 2011, at 4:14 PM, steve_the_composer wrote:
Hmmmm. Maybe it was SoundDiver I was thinking of. See http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/xl7/message/16225 . Also, search the archives for SoundQuest for more discussion.