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Antares Auto-Tune Hybrid eLicense
$459.00 $299.25Save: 35% off
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$289.00 $149.25Save: 48% off
Dr. T Hitman for Atari
This is a sealed New Sealed Dr. T. Hitman for the Atari ST. We found this in our warehouse and want to find it a good home like yours!!
Hitman is q unique program which brings the full SMPTE event editing to the ST. Hitman is based around a SMPTE event editor, letting you specify SMPTE times for each event in a cue list. With it's graphic display of hit/measures step you can easily use the mouse to move or quantize the hit points to adjust the tempo. Hitman supports 24, 25, 30 and drop-frame formats
TAP MAP lets you conduct the tempo map in real time as you lock to SMPTE. MARCO editor allows you to assign names to specific MIDI events and times, for easy inclusion of sound effects in the list. A complete tempo map function is provided with multiple time signatures and Mufti Program Environment hooks to KCS or Level II.
Cue Sheets can be displayed, edited and printed in text or a very intuitive graphic format.
Plus Analyzer function, Tempo calculator, tap tempo, Standard MIDI file export and more.
Hal Leonard Music Maker Windows CD ROM
Found this New Old Stock Factory Sealed Music Maker Windows 3.1/95 CD Rom From Hal Leonard in our warehouse and we want to move it out!
With MusicMaker published by Hal Leonard., you can play 15 pop hits today, even if you have no music background! This unique CD-ROM gives you five options: ONE KEY PLAY - Tap out the timing to play the melody along with a backing track; JAMTRAX(TM) - Play any key and sound great; DRUM ALONG - Choose between four kits to drum along with the tracks; QUIZ - Take a challenging musical quiz; MELODY PLAY - Play the melody on your keyboard.
Songs include:
- House of the Rising Sun
- Georgia on My Mind
- Everybody Wants to Rule the World
- You Give Love a Bad Name
- Walking on the Moon
- Sunshine of Your Love
- Back in the USSR
- Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue
- Johnny B. Goode
- Let It Be
- La Bamba
- Mama
- Killer
- Minne the Moocher
- Turn On, Tune In, Cop Out
System Requirements
- 486 DX
- 8MB Ram
- 256 Color VGA
- Sound Card
- Double Speed CD ROM
PG Music Band-in-a-Box Pro 2015 for Mac Retail Box
Band-in-a-Box® 2015 for Mac is here!
Band-in-a-Box® 2015 for Mac includes over 50 great new features and enhancements!
They've enhanced the GUI for an improved look and feel, and added many new time-saving features such as automatic track labels, video tutorial-help buttons, instant previews for many dialogs, and more. You can save your song as a video and upload it to YouTube. They've added an Audio Track, allowing you open an audio file, record audio, or render the song to the Audio Track. The new Audio Edit Window shows a digital waveform for the Audio track. You can now write Acidized information to the audio file. Loops dialog has been enhanced with support for Apple loops, support for additional formats including CAF and WMA, and more. Automatic program updates have been added, which can detect and download free program and RealTracks updates. New playback options allow for setting any relative tempo with great quality!
NEW! 101 more RealTracks with great new Jazz, Rock-Pop, and Country Styles! These include:
- 33 Jazz RealTracks: New RealTracks in our "Jazz Pollwinners" series of Jazz Artist RealTracks. These are new RealTracks by the best-of-the-best jazz musicians. These artists have won Downbeat's Critics "best player" poll many times. Our Pollwinners RealTracks series includes new RealTracks from the great Eric Alexander (tenor sax), Ron Carter (bass), Kenny Barron (piano), Lewis Nash (drums), Gary Smulyan (baritone sax), Mike Moreno (guitar) and Phil Woods (alto sax). Brand new Pollwinners styles for Jazz Swing, Ballad, Waltz and Bossa comping and soloing included. There are also great new flute and soprano sax background and soloing tracks. And new RealTracks for Jazz Funk (guitar and synth), Gypsy Jazz (Quinn Bachand), and a great Jazz/Rockabilly "Jive" band with guitar (Brent Mason), Piano (Kevin McKendree), bass and drums.
- 32 Country RealTracks: We've got several new full Country bands of RealTracks - guitar, piano, bass and drums for Rockabilly Boom-Chicka, Rockabilly Slow Swing, New Orleans Mardis Gras and New Orleans Shuffle. And this hot quartet includes Brent Mason (guitar) and Kevin McKendree (piano). Quinn Bachand has made some great Hip Folk, Old Time, Celtic banjo and guitar RealTracks. Nashville guitar legend Brent Mason returns with some more great Country RealTracks including Baritone Guitar, Rockabilly, Nylon, Dreamy and more!
- 36 Rock-Pop RealTracks: Great new Pop/Rock RealTracks by Brent Mason (guitar), Gary Smulyan (sax), John Jarvis (piano), Kevin McKendree (piano) and more! Hot! We also have new full bands with Rockabilly Fifties, Motown Up-tempo, Pop String Chamber Quartet, World Synths (koto, shakuhachi, electro flutes), Vintage Keys, Blues Baritone Sax, Funky Horns and much more!
What is Band-in-a-Box®?
Band-in-a-Box® is an intelligent automatic accompaniment program for your multimedia computer. You can hear and play along to many song ideas and go from "nothing" to "something" in a very short period of time with Band-in-a-Box® as your "on demand" backup band.
Band-in-a-Box is so easy to use!
Just type in the chords for any song using standard chord symbols (like C, Fm7, or C13b9), choose the style you’d like, and Band-in-a-Box® does the rest, automatically generating a complete professional-quality arrangement of piano, bass, drums, guitar, and strings or horns in a wide variety of popular styles plus optional live audio tracks with RealDrums and RealTracks.
RealTracks are audio instruments that replace the MIDI track with actual recordings of top studio Jazz/Rock/Country musicians! These are not “samples” of single instrument hits; they are full recordings, lasting from 1 to 8 bars at a time, playing along in perfect sync with the other Band-in-a-Box tracks. We have a huge library of RealTracks available, including lots of Jazz, Rock, Blues, Country, Folk, Celtic, Latin and Bluegrass styles.
Best of all, you use these instruments like regular styles. Many of them offer a “simpler” option that plays a less busy or embellished arrangement, and we include “Direct Input” (clean signal) guitar RealTracks so you can generate files with a clean guitar, and then, using your DAW (e.g. GarageBand), you can add custom amp and F/X settings using the AmpliTube CS guitar amp and effects simulator that is included.
The RealTracks sound more natural over a wide range of tempos with the élastique Pro V2 time stretching engine by zplane.development. This is built-in, so there’s nothing you need to do. Your songs will just “sound better” over a much wider range of keys and tempos.
By simply choosing a RealStyle, you will hear your new or existing songs played by real instruments, with a dramatic improvement in sound and musicality. You can even have your old MIDI styles automatically replaced with the equivalent RealStyle (if installed). And of course the number of RealTracks and RealStyles keeps growing.
Many of the RealTracks have RealCharts; this allows you to see notation and correct guitar tab/fretboard display, a great help for learning from the top pros performing on the RealTracks.
RealDrums replace the MIDI Drum track with actual recordings of top studio Jazz/Rock/Country drummers! Again, these are not “samples” of single drum hits; they are full recordings, lasting from 1 to 8 bars at a time, playing along in perfect sync with the other Band-in-a-Box tracks. Hundreds of RealDrums styles are available, and EZ selection of “DrumGrooves” lets you choose different grooves within drum styles.
For added versatility, you can add your own or 3rd party loops to any Band-in-a-Box track, or add your favorite MIDITrack from any MIDI style to any track of your current song. The Mixer window allows you to quickly set volumes, panning, reverb, tone and patches. The Mixer floats on top of the current window, so you can place it wherever it’s convenient to make quick and easy adjustments to your Band-in-a-Box track settings. It features a unique “Combo” slider for making changes to all tracks at once.
The amazing “Chords from MP4” feature (Audio Chord Wizard) automatically figures out the chords from any AIFF, MP4, M4A, or other audio file, and displays them in Band-in-a-Box. Just load in any audio file and you’ll instantly see the chords in Band-in-a-Box. The Audio Wizard also figures out tempo, bar lines, key and fine-tuning from the audio file.
Plus, you can Save, Print, and Render your songs! Print out your complete song arrangement as sheet music. With the Direct Render to Disk feature, you can save your files directly as audio files (AIFF, M4A, WAV), for use in other programs (GarageBand, Cubase, etc.), or in Internet formats.
And much more …
System Requirements
- Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
- Intel Processor.
- Minimum 512 MB RAM
- Screen Resolution: 1024x768 or higher
- Hard Disk space: Minimum 400 MB for the main Band-in-a-Box®programs. More space is required for RealTracks, depending on which package you buy...
- RealTracks & RealDrums: ~100-400 MB per set
- Pro RealCombos: ~10 GB
- MegaPAK RealCombos: ~20 GB
- Full UltraPlusPAK/EverythingPAK when installed to internal hard drive: ~90 GB
(another ~90GB is required for the installation files when downloading the UltraPlusPAK or EverythingPAK) - Hard Drive versions of the EverythingPAK or UltraPlusPAK do not require any hard disk space when run directly from the external hard drive they are shipped on.
- Optical drive for shipped versions of the MegaPAK or Pro version.
PG Music Band-in-a-Box Pro with RealBand 2016 Windows Retail Box
Band-in-a-Box® with RealBand 2016 for Windows® is here!
There are many exciting new features in Band-in-a-Box 2016! StylePicker redesigned and enhanced with many new features including sizable window, columns sort, selectable font size, 4-bar preview of the current song, and more. Intelligent Style Suggestion: Type the name of a familiar song title in the StylePicker and Band-in-a-Box will list styles whose genre, feel and tempo are similar to that song! The Chord Sheet is enhanced with a new look, feel, and customization. Audio Edit Window is improved, with easier zooming and more. Import Audio feature improved. New menu command to convert audio track type (stereo/ mono) added. Load and Save MusicXML files. New menu layout: Each menu is simplified with more submenus. Automatic track names now include a number if there are 2 tracks with the same name.Yellow hints over the one-letter track buttons in various windows show detailed information of the track name and other data. Guitar Window improved, with dynamic resizing of the fretboard and Guitar Capo support. Export Lists of Styles, RealTracks or RealDrums. Log of messages enhanced, recording more message types. Style demos redone with even volumes. Download Manager to automate download of Band-in-a-Box add-ons in background, accessible from inside the program. Setting the “Track Type” to bass now shows bass clef with tab. RealTracks pushes now happen a little later, sounding more musical, and the timing is tempo dependant and more
NEW! 201 more RealTracks with great new Jazz, Rock-Pop, and Country Styles. These include:
- 71 NEW Jazz, Blues & Funk RealTracks: There is a new "Crooner" Big Band Jazz Horns RealTracks set, with a complex, 9-part horn section! All 9 horns play together, or you can use the individual horns on their own. There are new sets by world-class, famous musicians such as Jon Herington (guitarist for Steely Dan and others), Danny Gottlieb (drummer for Pat Metheny and others), and Alex Al (bassist for Michael Jackson and others). We also have many new Funk styles, spread over two RealTracks sets. There are also new blues styles, with resonator guitar and baritone guitar RealTracks.
- 67 NEW Country, Folk and World RealTracks: In the world of country, we cover the old and the new! There is a set of modern pedal steel RealTracks, with sounds that you hear all the time on country radio. We also have old-school styles, including a set of "bent-note" piano styles, reminiscent of 50s and 60s classic country. There are also wonderful new folk and world styles, including "Oberkrainer," a very distinctive and very recognizable sound from the regions around the Alps, featuring horns, accordion and guitar. There are also "Old Time" Americana RealTracks, as well as new Celtic percussion.
- 63 NEW Pop and Rock RealTracks: RealTracks from lite pop, to crunchy rock, to old-school punk are covered with this RealTracks release. We have a set of RealTracks rhythm guitar styles from up-and-coming guitar wizard Zane Carney. Zane is perhaps best known as John Mayer's guitarist, but also well-established in his own right, and he has recorded 4 new RealTracks styles for Band-in-a-Box. In addition to these, we have modern RnB styles, for people who want a more current sound, and we also have classic punk, very useful brushes and percussion styles, and exciting Surf-Rock!
System Requirements for Band-in-a-Box®
- Windows®: XP / Vista / 7 / 8 / 8.1 / 10 (32 or 64-bit)
- Minimum 1GB RAM (2GB+ recommended)
- Minimum 1.0 GHz processor (2GHz+ multicore recommended)
- 1GB free Hard Disk space for a minimal install (15GB+ recommended)
- Pro RealCombos: ~10 GB
- MegaPAK RealCombos: ~20 GB
- Full UltraPlusPAK or EverythingPAK when installed to internal hard drive: ~90 GB
(another ~80 GB is required for the installation files when downloading the UltraPlusPAK or EverythingPAK) - Please note: Hard Drive versions of the UltraPlusPAK, EverythingPAK or Audiophile Edition do not require any hard disk space when run directly from the external hard drive they are shipped on.
- 1024x768 screen resolution (1360x768+ recommended)
- DVD-ROM drive for shipped versions of the Pro or MegaPAK.
- USB port for the UltraPlusPAK, EverythingPAK or Audiophile Edition.
- Sound card or MIDI module.
- Internet connection recommended for activation and updates.
PG Music The Jazz Solist Vol 1 Mac
The Jazz Soloist is a music program with Jazz quartet arrangements to show the key elements of jazz improvisation.
You'll how to play the music with on screen notation showing you exactly what notes are being played. You can can the tempo or step thru the song chord by chord. You can learn to play note for note! Plus the songs are in Standard MIDI file format so you can load them in to your favorite sequencer or notation program!
Requirements for the software program:
- Mac 4 mb ram
- System 6 or 7
- 3mb hard drive space.
- Floppy drive
- MIDI interface,
- MIDI system with piano sound
PG Music The New Age Pianist Mac on CDRom
The Age Pianist is a music program with over 70 New Age and New Age Jazz style piano pieces, performed by top New Age Artists. Plus there's a Guess the song game , program notes and biographies plus more!!
You'll how to play the music with on screen keyboard showing you exactly what notes are being played. You can can the tempo or step thru the song chord by chord. You can learn to play note for note! Plus the songs are in Standard MIDI file format so you can load them in to your favorite sequencer or notation program!
Requirements for the software program:
- Mac 4 mb ram
- System 6 or 7
- 3mb hard drive space.
- CD Rom Drive
- MIDI interface,
- MIDI system with piano sound
Roland MSD-103 Around the World 2 Music Style Disk
The MSD Series of Music Style Disks offer an inexpensive way to broaden the
selection of music styles available for the E-66 Intelligent Synthesizer.
Each 3.5" floppy disk contains 16 music styles, covering blues to samba and
swing as well as many other international styles.
The MSD Series allows you to enjoy realtime performance, taking advantage of the
Intelligent Arranger function with complete accompaniments of up to 8 parts.
Major Features
Styles on the Disk
Roland MSD-106 Around the World 5 Music Style Disk
The MSD Series of Music Style Disks offer an inexpensive way to broaden the
selection of music styles available for the E-66 Intelligent Synthesizer.
Each 3.5" floppy disk contains 16 music styles, covering blues to samba and
swing as well as many other international styles.
The MSD Series allows you to enjoy realtime performance, taking advantage of the
Intelligent Arranger function with complete accompaniments of up to 8 parts.
Major Features
Styles on the Disk
- Rock 1
- Rock 2
- Funk 1
- Funk 2
- 8 Beat 1
- 8 Beat 2
- 16 Beat 1
- 16 Beat 2
- Reggae
- Swing
- Country
- Waltz 2
- Polka
- Bossa Nova
- Rhumba
- Fusion
$19.95
Roland SD-JW50-02 JW 50 Rock & Pop Music Style Disk
The JW50 Music Style Disks offer an inexpensive way to broaden the
selection of music styles available for the JW50 Synthesizer.
Each 3.5" floppy disk contains 10 different pop music styles
Major Features
Styles on the Disk
- Soul Rock
- Triplet Rock 2
- Jump Rock
- Country Rock
- Comptemporary
- 8 Beat Pops 2
- Slow Pops
- Funk 2
- Rap 2
- Ground Beat
$19.95
Roland SSW-3 Singer Song Writer Software with GI-10 Editor
Roland SSW-3 Singer Song Writer Software with GI-10 Editor
Singer Song Writer GI provides a powerfull and versatile environment for the creative musician including specific features for MIDI guitar.
The MIDI sequencer includes score editor, piano roll editor, drum editor and step editor windows. There's also step recording, keyboard input using your computer keyboard plus realtime recording from a MIDI guitar using the GI-10 (or any MIDI instrument).
Other features include Auto nuance which allows expressive techniques to instruments such as strings, brass and guitar. It contains over 30 different playing methods that can be easily applied to notes. Such as slide up/down, pull-off, crescendo, vibrato, glissando up/down, tremolo and more.
There's a mixer window where you can mix up to 48 tracks, an arrangement window with more than 30 genre preset arrangements that you can use to build your own songs. The presets include style and chord changes give you a solid background to make your songs.
There's a GI-10 editor included to control the GI-10, score and tabalture print out, MIDI file output (0 and 1 formats), support for GM,GS, LA and other sound modules plus more!
System Requirements:
- Windows 3.1
- 486/25 CPU (486/33 recommended) with 4 MB of Ram (6 megs recommended)
- 1024x768 Display
- Includes drivers for Roland UPU and RS-232 interfaces
- Windows compatible MIDI Card
Sound Quest Midi Quest 12
SounfQuest MIDIQuest 12
We no longer can sell this program but you can still get it by going to
https://squest.com/index.html
We've left this info up so if you using hardware and want to edit, you can!
Multi Instrument MIDI Editor/Librarian with plug-ins for Macintosh and Windows
Stand-alone and Plug-in versions for AU, AAX, VST3, VST2, MFX, and Studio Connections
Over 830 MIDI instruments and devices supported, 32/64-bit support
Enhanced Editor/Librarian Features
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We no longer can sell this program but you can still get it by going to
https://squest.com/index.html
We've left this info up so if you using hardware and want to edit, you can!
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 its 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, its 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 we already support most, if not all, of your hardware. You can find a list of supported instruments here and click here to submit a request for instruments that don't currently have a Midi Quest module. Of course, with Midi Quest XL, you can always make your own editor, if you want.
A Little History....
Midi Quest was first released in 1989 for DOS, the AMIGA, and ATARI ST platforms and is the oldest actively supported software dedicated to getting the most from your MIDI hardware. And, Midi Quest was based on a previous 5 years experience creating software to support specific instruments such as the DX7, DX7II, D-50, M1, K1, and many others. And before that? Well, before that there was no MIDI.
During the last 20 years, Sound Quest has stayed at the leading edge. We invented the concept of using audio plug-in formats such as VST to virtualize hardware synthesizers. Sound Quest was the first company to provide software that automatically adds patch names to script files such as Sonar's MASTER.INS and Cubase's instrument patch scripts. Finally, even 10 years after its innovation, Midi Quest is still the only software which offers maintenance of parent/child relationships between Performances and Patches in a hierarchical synthesizer - a truly critical requirement for making your instrument easy to use.
Midi Quest XL continues to lead the way with the first Windows 64-bit hardware virtualizer and editor/librarian software along with the only x64 plug-in software available for your instruments. When you go x64, Midi Quest is ready. Watch for more innovations from Sound Quest in the future...
Midi Quest 10 XL
How does Midi Quest 10 compare with every previous upgrade? Quite simply, there is no comparison. Almost three years in the making, Sound Quest has never before packed so many enhancements and new features into a single upgrade.
Along with the hundreds of "small" improvements, Midi Quest 10 and Midi Quest 10 XL add major enhancements such as: multi-threaded MIDI I/O, which can cut SysX download times from 50 - 75% or more; Studio Connections plug-in support for all 650 instruments; brand new VST and MFX plug-ins - yes, that's new - and we even enhanced the old ones too; video tutorials are back, 12 hours worth; and finally, 64-bit versions of Midi Quest XL and all of its plug-ins. That's just the beginning of the list.
Midi Quest 10 XL ships with two different VST and MFX plug-ins.
The first plug-in is an enhanced version of the original. This version can load any Midi Quest data file into your host sequencer as a plug-in. What's new is the plug-in's ability to load as well as send MIDI data so you can add patches to a Library or update a Set from a plug-in stead of having to load up Midi Quest.
The updated VST and MFX plug-ins now receive CC events either from the sequencer track or external MIDI hardware and use these to remotely edit instrument parameters. The VST plug-in also includes enhanced automation features to match those available in the MFX plug-in so you can now automatically trigger SysX transmissions when the data is loaded, when the sequencer starts, when the sequencer loops, and when the sequencer stops playing.
The second VST and MFX plug-ins are completely new and appear in your list of VST or MFX lists as individual instruments. For example, if your studio contains an M1, a Motif, and a JV-1080, your VST plug-in list would list each of those three instruments separately. Choose an instrument and a custom sized Set window appears. Load data in from the instrument or read a Set file in from disk and you're ready to go.
These new plug-ins are designed to let you treat each piece of MIDI hardware as an integrated component in your sequencer, just like a soft-synth. All of the Midi Quest XL's SysX data is stored in your sequence file so when you take your sequence to another computer, the Midi Quest data automatically comes along with it.
Studio Connections - the New MIDI Hardware Plug-in Standard
Sound Quest is proud to announce that it is now providing Studio Connections compatibility for all Midi Quest 10 XL instruments. Support for the Studio Connections standard was previously limited to a small number of Yamaha devices. With Midi Quest 10 XL, Studio Connections now supports over 650 MIDI devices from 60 manufacturers.
Midi Quest 10 XL currently supports all Studio Connections on both Windows and Macintosh with features including Total Recall and access to the host sequencer's MIDI ports. In Windows, this allows Midi Quest XL to work effectively as a plug-in even if your MIDI interface has only single-client drivers.
It's a 64-bit World out there...
The x64 version of Sonar is shipping. The new 64-bit VST standard has arrived so x64 upgrades to Cubase and Nuendo can't be far behind. These new sequencers will offer great new features including smoother operation and access to much more memory but there is a catch, you need 64-bit plug-ins to run in your x64 sequencer.
With Midi Quest 10 XL, you can start using a 64-bit sequencer any time you want. Midi Quest 10 XL includes x64 compatible versions of all of its VST, Studio Connections*, and MFX plug-ins.
Midi Quest Dramatically Improves SysX transfers
How would you like to cut your SysX transfer times by 25%? 30%? 50%? 75%?
Midi Quest 10 features multi-threaded MIDI I/O. What does this mean? It means that you can send SysX data out every MIDI port of each of your MIDI interfaces simultaneously. If you need to send SysX to two or more instruments at the same time, you don't have to wait for each instrument to receive its data, just start a transmit for each instrument and you're done. And even then, you still don't have to wait. The MIDI I/O window that you're so familiar with is gone! If you've got another instrument that isn't receiving a bulk download, you can edit it, audition patches, try out a mix or blend, anything. You won't even know that you're downloading except for some blinking in the MIDI Monitor window.
Midi Quest Video Tutorials Return...
For those of you purchasing the DVD (yes, DVD) version of Midi Quest or Midi Quest XL, you will find that the disc contains over 12 hours of Midi Quest tutorials in .AVI format. You can watch these from your browser or run them from most AVI compatible players. These tutorials cover virtually all of Midi Quest's features including a number of development tutorials for those of you who always wanted to create your own instrument modules.
If you hate reading manuals but want to know everything that there is to know about Midi Quest, these are definitely for you!
Midi Quest 10 XL Features
XL Highlights
- x64 version of Midi Quest XL
- x64 versions of Midi Quest XL plug-ins (VST, MFX, Studio Connections)
- New plug-in versions of Midi Quest XL
- Instrument specific VST plug-in modules
- Instrument specific MFX plug-in modules
- Full support for the new Yamaha Studio Connections plug-in standard
Plug-in Features
- 2 different VST plug-in styles
- 2 different MFX plug-in styles
- Support for Yamaha's Studio Connections standard
- Fully independent instrument based MFX and VST plug-ins
- VST and MFX plug-in editor controls now respond to CC data recorded on sequencer tracks or real time CC data from an instrument or hardware controller in both the new VST instrument plug-in format and the original Midi Quest plug-ins
- Additional automation options including "Transmit on Load" and "Transmit on Stop"
- VST now supports "Transmit on Start" and "Transmit on Loop" automation events
- Continued support of VST automation for all controls
- New multi-threaded MIDI features result in far superior VST performance
- Midi Quest Preferences are now accessible from the plug-ins
- Complete rewrite of all plug-ins allows a single host to simultaneously run Midi Quest VST, MFX, and Studio Connections editors
- All individual instrument bitmaps required for Studio Connections
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, any 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 new 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
- New and 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.)
Advanced Features
- The only software to offset sophisticated program automation by plugging into Infinity
- The only editor/librarian to support patch name export for all of the following applications: Cubase, Sonar, Cakewalk, Nuendo, PowerTracks, and ProTools(ProTools only)
- Includes over 70,000 patches and other SysX data (that's over 70MB of data covering most supporting instruments). Check the each individual instrument page for information on included patches. (DVD version only)
- Skins - Midi Quest patch editors include a sophisticated set of tools which allow you to create your own 'look'. You can choose from an extensive selection of skins provided by Sound Quest or create your own using your preferred colors and background bitmaps
- VNRPN - remotely edit any parameter in any editor using a MIDI keyboard or hardware controller
- Parent/Child Hierarchical Bank Editing
- Intelligent and automated assignment of descriptive keywords to each of your patches
- File Linking - be able to use the same data in different groups, databases, and libraries. Edits to one linked file are automatically transferred to all other linked files
- Gen 4 and four other types of intelligent patch mixing
- Automated search for duplicates in Libraries. Do you have thousands of sounds? Let Midi Quest find and remove all of the duplicates in your libraries - even if the names of the patches are different!
System Requirements
PC
- Windows XP, 2000, NT, and Vista
- PI with 32 MB RAM, 30MB hard drive space
- DVD Drive
Mac
- Macintosh OS10.4 Intel & PPC
- DVD Drive
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