RE: Sound Quest and Sonar?
2005/03/04 23:11:21
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Back in the day when I used mostly hardware synths, I used Sounquest with Sonar. It is essentially a pretty good librarian editor (with a few problems.... the Roland XV5080 editor has some flaws for example) At any rate..... one big issue is that your midi drivers must be multi client to use the two programs together. Otherwise, you get an error message which says that the "resource" is unavailable. You can try some work arounds like MidiOx or midilan from MusicLab
http://www.musiclab.com/products/rpl_info.htm but my success with these programs has been limited. I have a Frontier Design Sound Card with the midi exapander.... not multiclient and midi became very very "sensitive" with both of these products (e.g., stopped working, no sound, one or two blue screens of death with 2000 etc.)
If you have need of a good universal editor/librarian for hardware synths.... and SQ covers your hardware.... and you have native multiclient midi drivers.... go for it. As a benefit, you can download your hardward synth files in sysex and create Sonar ins files out of them automatically!
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