United StatesUnparalleled SysEx Management for MIDI Hardware... Midi Quest supports 900 of the most popular MIDI instruments and other devices from over 50 different manufacturers including Korg, Roland, Yamaha, Kurzweil, Alesis, Waldorf, Kawai, Akai, and E-mu.. Store, organize, and edit banks and the individual patches, combinations, multis, performances, drums settings, and other SysEx loaded from your MIDI hardware. Midi Quest is a true multi-instrument editor/librarian designed from the ground up to effectively support multiple MIDI ports, multiple manufacturers, and multiple MIDI devices. Midi Quest "talks" to each MIDI device individually so it can simultaneously send SysEx to as many as 250 different instruments and still edit another instrument - all at the same time. Try doing that with any other editor/librarian... Midi Quest is not a panel editor. Midi Quest is a professional, integrated system capable of fully managing, editing, and organizing the simplest to the most complex workstation class MIDI devices and hardware synthesizers such as Korg's flagship workstation, the Kronos. Midi Quest natively reads and writes industry standard .syx and .mid files so that you can easily take advantage of SysEx downloaded from the internet or received from a friend. Midi Quest for iPad imports Set, Collection, individual Patch, and individual Bank files from Mac and Windows versions of Midi Quest so existing SysEx can easily be stored and edited on an iPad. Midi Quest can store an entire studio configuration - in a single file. First, what every editor/librarian should have (but may not)... Midi Quest will easily handle all of your bank editing tasks. Copy and Paste, Swap, or Insert single or multiple patches within the same bank or with other banks using menu commands or drag and drop. Along with a dozen other standard commands to rename, sort, shift patches, and so on. 1-tap audition automatically sends selected patches. Midi Quest's unique and powerful bank editing capabilities are highlighted in multi-timbral instruments with parent/child linked editing and display. Just like its bank editors, Midi Quest's parameter editors cover all of the basics with the features you expect - multiple ways to edit each parameter: grab and drag editing, extended popup editing, and true rotary knob editing. Unlike most panel editors, Midi Quest can retrieve and display all of the current values of all parameters. Of course, Midi Quest performs edits in real time so the instrument immediately reflects the changes made on screen. It also offers a range of both manual and automatic auditioning options. Scale each editor to a customizable size (up to 3X) so editing is fast and easy. Along with the editor's many features, take advantage of the Block Copy/Swap options which allows for the selection of a logical group of parameters such as an envelope, oscillator, effect, or LFO and copy/swap them within the same patch, or a different patch. Midi Quest is not just for the patch tweaker. Midi Quest has many users who have never created a new patch by editing individual parameters. Their secret is Midi Quest's five different patch generators: Mix, Blend, Mix All, Morph, and Gen 4. Each takes existing sounds and combines them in different ways to create entire banks of new sounds in a matter of seconds. This type of experimentation, without Midi Quest, would require days but with Midi Quest there are results in seconds. Looking for new inspiration? Looking for a sound but no time for programming? Midi Quest has the answer for you. Sound Quest's latest patch collection contains over 180,000 unique patches and is now accessible to everyone with Midi Quest using the unique Patch Zone view. This context sensitive view tracks the instrument and type of SysEx and automatically lists the available patches. For more detailed information on Midi Quest for iPad, visit Sound Quest's web site at www.squest.com
MX49 Needs Studio View Arrow, Tetra needs a Keyboard
I purchased the DSI Tetra editor. The programmer is similar to the discontinued Sound Tower Mopho iOS editor. You can easily edit programs, combis and sequences using an iPad. Please add a Midi keyboard screen so I can edit and test sounds using only the iPad and Tetra. Other functions are good. I tested the MX49 performance editor. This a port of the VYCRO MX editor. This lets you change the Midi channel, velocity and key range of parts 1-16 so you can make complex layers and splits. The MX module has a Midi Keyboard but the keys are too small to play. The MX module fills the entire screen and does not display a "Studio View" arrow. When restarting the app it defaults to MX editor. I cannot select any menu items, buy the module or switch modules unless I delete and re-download the app -- then I lose my Tetra and MX patches... Please fix. A bit of programming will make this a nice iPad synth editor.
United StatesI wish this worked reliably but constantly freezes (among other concerns)
This app could be a great, especially for those with vintage synths that need a robust librarian and editor. I own an Ensoniq SD-1, Casio CZ-1, Casio CZ-101, and Korg DW-8000. I purchased the $69 license for the Ensoniq SD-1 because this may be the only iOS apps that provides librarian, editor and Sysex support for this keyboard. Unfortunately after several hours of use, I’ve discovered what the app claims to do only work part of the time. It constantly freezes, then after force closing, settings and edits are lost. I’ve tried being patient, reading the help guide but there don’t appear to be any solutions. For the price of this license, the app should be rock solid and bullet proof. It’s not even close. Other app developers have found a way to create similar apps that are much more reliable and at a far more reasonable price. Please Sound Quest, put some development resources into updating this app, fix the bugs and reliability issues. If you don’t your essentially gouging and scamming users.
United StatesApp works fine
This is a nice program. I have ipad and Mac versions. I’ve got several older synths and the midiquest works well for programming and library Roland: D 50 XP 50 XP 30 JV 2080 JV 1010 also have yamaha VL 1m and kurzweil K 2000 synths I have newer synths for library use. (programming too but not needed) Dave Smith: P12 Rev 2 I’ve found customer support to be responsive and helpful.
United StatesAlpha Quality - NOT recommended
[Updated to reflect changes] Why are there THREE versions of this app on the App Store? Like other reviewers said before me: This is ALPHA-quality software. I don't understand why it was released in this state. This cannot do anyone any good; certainly not Sound Quest. I don't understand this company. Their website is always out of date, their products cost too much, and their product usability and reliability is poor. Read some MIDIQuest threads on the KVR and GearSlutz forums, because I'm not alone in this impression. My experience: I got MIDIQuest stuck in the TC Helicon VoiceWorksPlus editor (which is tiny, by the way). There was no way to exit the editor. No menus, no buttons (the tool bar from the top of the MIDIQuest GUI is not present in this view), no keyboard commands, NOTHING gets me back to the rest of the application. Even QUITTING and restarting the app doesn't get me out of the editor. The developer responded to a KVR thread about this issue. He claimed that a two-finger tap would exit the "custom editors", which I tested, and it did nothing at all. He has added an invisible and tiny touch area in the upper left corner of the "custom editors" which backs out to the main screen. This clumsily addresses the issue. This is NOT good development. Sound Quest informed me via KVR posting that the majority of the editors use OS text rendering, but the one I was looking at, created by Psicraft, used custom bitmapped text for some reason. While this EXPLAINS the reason for the ugly text, it does NOTHING to ADDRESS the problem. People are rightly trashing this product. I expect Sound Quest to rage-quit or bash their own users for making legit complaints about the product. What else is there to expect when this is the level of care shown to users? Pricing: you have to buy each editor individually. This would be a great model for selective expense, but the cost of the individual editors is ridiculous, far exceeding the cost of the desktop application with just a few devices purchased. This is an example of the continued ridiculous cost for Sound Quest products. On the desktop he must get away with this kind of thing(??). On iOS? I highly doubt these prices will work. Most apps don't cost $50, let alone individual IAPs costing $50-$90. Patch Base, even with its ugly editors, has better prices. I own an Alesis QS8 editor with a better GUI that's a dedicated application on Windows, and it never cost me more than $49; Sound Quest wants $90 for a worse QS8 editor, with tiny controls not designed for a touch screen on this app. This is the best example of everything a developer should NOT do when porting software from a desktop OS to iOS. Sadly, the desktop version isn’t a whole lot better. The developer never seems to get beyond an “it works” mindset. Apparently he makes money with this mindset, so has no incentive to change. [shrug]
United StatesAwful UI.
Don’t bother. This makes horrible use of screen real estate and is not close to justifying the per-synth editor cost. It’s clearly made by someone who thinks “it’s functional” is where you stop, with no sense of design or usability. UPDATE: It also seems the IAP won’t present anything but the $249 all-instruments option, even if you do cave and decide to swallow the $69 for one instrument.
United StatesIs this a joke?
The price to license a single synth editor is either a joke or a bug. Uninstalled. But thanks for the chuckle.
United StatesAs bad as the Desktop Version
The editors are extremely over priced, text gets cut off, editors are ports from the desktop versions & miserable to edit even with the zoom tool. This is not a true iOS touch app. My other complaints are the same as everybody else's. I never had good luck, ever ... with the desktop version, buggy, clunky, rarely updated, way too many bugs. I wanted to love this and the desktop version. I'm sorry, I don't at all. What they're advertised to do & well, they simply do not. On paper it looks like a dream. It's a nightmare. There are iOS alternatives that put this to shame & that includes includes asking price per editor. Yes, this has way more. Reliability, however are what's important. And a touch friendly UI & great UX. This lacks in too many ways. The icon is terribly outdated, as well. What a shame. This & the desktop program have incredible potential.
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