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Rated '10' by Electronic Musician, Midi Quest gives you all the features you would expect to find in a Universal Editor/Librarian and much more.
Congratulations! You're using hardware. You know something that many musicians have forgotten. Whatever the reason, hardware synths and effects simply sound better and are more reliable than plug-ins.
However, the heart of your studio is still the computer. That's where you do all of your recording, mixing, fixing, and playback and it’s where you spend a lot of your time. The computer also has important assets such as raw processing power, a large monitor or two, and huge amount of disk storage space. And most importantly, the computer can help you get more from your MIDI hardware.
Ask yourself...
Did you ever wish there was an easy way to get all of your instrument's patch names into your sequencer so that an accurate list was always displayed, even if the sounds stored in your instrument changed on a daily basis?
When was the last time you created a custom bank of sounds using just your instrument (without wanting to perform a Pete Townsend on it)?
Have you ever wished you could rearrange the sounds on your synth to match your organizational style but found the synth wasn't up to it? Or, you just didn't want to have to manually keep track of all of the links between Performances, Combis, Multis and their associated Programs, Patches, and Sounds.
Have you stopped tweaking patches because you don't have anywhere to store them even if you do create something that you like?
Have you stopped tweaking patches because you spend more time flipping through pages on the synthesizer than you do actually working on the sound parameters?
Do you wish you could create some new variations of your favorite synth sounds but you don't have time to figure out what each one of those 1500 different parameters does or just where they're found on the instrument?
Are you tempting fate by not backing up your custom sounds? Almost every week there's a posting somewhere on the internet saying "I did something incredibly stupid and I just lost all of my patches".
Would you like to have a library of 5,000, 10,000, or 20,000 sounds for your instrument and actually be able to find the sounds you need, when you need them?
The Answer...
The solution is Midi Quest. Not only does Midi Quest provide you with one of the best ways to work with your MIDI hardware, it also gives you everything you need to get the most out of your MIDI hardware investment.
Midi Quest does this by providing a set of fully integrated tools that not only display, edit, and organize the settings of your instrument. They also maintain the relationships between the various types of data in your instrument.
If you want to create a new bank of sounds, it’s easy, just drag and drop the patches from one bank to another. Now, you want to create a new bank of Performances (also called Combis or Multis depending on the instrument). For Midi Quest, that's also easy. Midi Quest will copy over the selected Performances along with all of the sounds that those performances need to work correctly. Try doing that in other software or on your instrument.
If you want new sounds for your instrument but don't have time to learn every detail of synth programming, Midi Quest has easy click and go tools that will give you great new sounds without requiring that you understand every nuance of your instrument's audio engine.
With Midi Quest you can also be as detailed as you want to, with a control to tweak virtually every parameter in your instrument. Since Midi Quest uses the entire computer screen, you won't spend your life flipping through submenus and with the computer's virtually unlimited storage space you are free to make as many variations on a particular sound as you want. While Midi Quest's organizational tools will allow you to find the sounds you're looking for tomorrow or in a year from now.
Midi Quest supports over 650 synthesizers, drum machines, effects, and other MIDI devices so there is a good chance that most, if not all, of your hardware is supported.
Highlights
- Make your MIDI hardware part of your computer based music studio with support for over 650 different MIDI devices (instruments, effects, drum machines, samplers, etc)
- Tired of using stock Patch Name Lists that don't represent the contents of your instrument (factory settings) or selecting your patch changes by number? Create customized Patch Name Lists for your instruments based on the patches currently in your instrument, not just the factory settings. Supports Sonar's Master.Ins file and Cubase/Nuendo Patch Script files
- Backup, organize, manage the contents of your MIDI hardware from the comfort of your large, easy to read computer screen
- Customize each of your sounds to fit perfectly in the mix. The pro's don't use stock sounds, you don't need to either
- Download and DVD versions of Midi Quest available
- DVD version includes over 12 hours of video tutorials to help you get the most from your Midi Quest purchase
- DVD version includes over 70,000 unique patches and other SysX data for your synthesizers
Patch/Parameter Editors
- Every editor is uniquely designed to match the instrument
- Open any combination of editors that you wish, including multiple editors for the same instrument
- Choose your preferred editing style...
- Easy to use grab and drag editing
- Direct numeric entry from the computer keyboard
- Mouse Wheel
- CC automation to remotely edit parameters using controls on a synthesizer or external MIDI hardware
- Extended editing popup mode for parameters with large data ranges
- Popup numeric equivalent for all graphic parameters (eg knobs, sliders) for accurate editing
- MIDI keyboard based zone and velocity editing (for performance editors)
- 25 different control types to optimally display each parameter including: drag envelopes, knobs, lists, numbers, ranges, keyboards, patch name entry, and many more
- Extensive patch auditioning options: audition after edit, pitch and velocity sensitive mouse clicks, virtual keyboard, Smart Thru for external keyboard auditioning, computer keyboard
- Randomize, Restore, or Copy & Paste any combination of parameters
- All edits are automatically sent to the instrument so the instrument stays in sync with your editor
- Unlimited Undo with auditionable Undo History for Risk Free Experimentation
- VNRPN - Virtual Non-Registered Parameter Numbers allow you to assign any controller to any parameter in an editor for remote control editing
- Instrument specific Fast Tips help for each editor
- Edit patches individually or from a bank
- Simultaneously edit as many different patches as you want
- Save edited patches to source location or any other location in another bank
- Customize and enhance editors with the Panel Editor
- Combi/Multi editors show names of selected sounds
- Customize your editors with you own unique Midi Quest "Skins"
Bank Editors
- The easiest way to organize and create custom banks
- Intuitive multiple patch drag and drop interface copies or swaps patches within the current bank or with another bank
- Real time auditioning to listen to any patch in the bank at any time
- Parent/Child relationship tracking ensures that performances continue to reference the correct sounds even during bank reorganization
- Intelligent Parent/Child copying ensures that sounds used by a performance are also copied
- Automated display of sound names used by each performance
- All sounds used by a performance are automatically tagged to reduce the risk of being accidentally overwritten
- Print a complete listing of all patches in the bank along with parent/child relationships
- Unlimited undo with undo history
- 5 different patch generation tools to create unique and usable sounds
- Where supported, save time by uploading and downloading partial banks
- Simultaneously edit as many different banks as you want
- Automated transfer of patches into patch libraries
Sets
- Provides integration between each type of SysX data allowing you to treat an instrument as a whole
- Think of a Set as a virtual representation of your instrument's memory
- Maintains the intelligent integrated Parent/Child hierarchical editing
- Open an unlimited number of Sets from any combination of instruments
Libraries
- Store all of your instrument's patches in a single searchable location
- Each library can hold a virtually unlimited number of patches
- Open an unlimited number of Libraries
- Find all duplicates (with or without matching names)
- Automated intelligent keyword assignment
- Keyword sensitive auditioning - audition sequence is sensitive to the type of sound being played)
- Find similar sounds or patches
- Add descriptive comments to each sound
- Add identifying keywords to quickly find specific types of patches
- Sort sounds 3 ways including alphabetically
- Extensive set of editing and organizational tools
Collections
- Store patches and banks from any combination of MIDI devices together in one file
- Create and restore complete MIDI System "Snapshot"s with one click
- Extensive editing and organizational tools
Librarian
- Save & Load all types of SysX data from each instrument
- Librarian Drivers support 650+ instruments
- UniQuest supports only one instrument
- Open an unlimited number of Banks, Sets, Collections, and Libraries
- 3 types of MIDI THRU re-channelization
- Hands-off automated control of your patch bay
- Export SysX in standard MIDI file, MIDIX/Cakewalk, and Text formats
- Easy Internet - transmit MIDIX format files to your instruments
- Unique online "Fast Tips" Help simplifies MIDI communication
- Configurable file extensions & customizable storage directories for each instrument
- Desktop Load/Save - store and retrieve entire screen layouts
- Internal support for 256 individual MIDI IN and MIDI OUT ports
- "File Linking" allows many files to use the same data
Sound Checker
- Comprehensive sound auditioning tools for sound development/auditioning
- Standard MIDI File Sequencer plays Type 0 and Type 1 files
- All functions are active while playing
- Complete Graphic MIDI Systems Analysis
- Trigger custom defined notes, chords and arpeggios
Basics
- Supports Windows XP, 2000, and NT
- Save and Load instrument data to and from disk
- Supports all MIDI instrument/device data types Including patches, banks combis, multis, rhythm, system, etc.
- MIDI interface: any MIDI interface with Windows drivers
- Minimum hardware: PI with 32 MB RAM, 30MB hard drive space
- Suggested hardware: P3/Celeron with 64MB RAM, 30MB HD space
- DVD version includes over 12 house of video tutorials to help you get the most out of Midi Quest
- DVD version Includes an extensive patch collection of over 70,000 unique patches along with other SysX data
- No copy protection
- Easy to use program installer
- Dedicated Technical Support email and support line
- Updated instrument support downloaded and installed from within Midi Quest
- Read data files from DOS, Mac, Amiga and Atari versions of Midi Quest
- Easy upgrades to Midi Quest and Midi Quest XL (from UniQuest and Midi Quest.)
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MIDI interface: any MIDI interface with Windows drivers
Minimum hardware: PI with 32 MB RAM, 30MB hard drive space
Suggested hardware: PII/Celeron II with 32MB RAM, 30MB HD space
Software: Microsoft Windows XP, ME, 98, 2000 or NT
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MIDI interface: any MIDI interface supported by OS X or OMS in OS 9
Minimum hardware: G4 with 128MB RAM, 60 MB hard drive space
Suggested hardware: G4 with 256MB RAM, 80MB HD space
Software: OS X 10.2 or OS 9.2
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