Hi Oliver

I also found that MidiQuest kept crashing but then I'm on a Mac so maybe that's
a bit different. I found MOTU's Unisyn quite stable. Not sure if it's available
for PC, though.

Jonathan

--- In K5000@yahoogroups.com, "o.fairhall" <o.fairhall@...> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've been trying to preview some patches found online, and also make my own
patches for my K5000R, and what programs have people found to work best for
patch editing, and storing?
>
> I tried the following:
>
> SoundDiver K5000 edition
> Midi Quest
> Xasa's Editor
> K5K Cuisineart editor
>
> I had troubles with each of these. I'm not sure if this is a problem with my
computer, or if none of these editors is really as functional as I had expected.
>
> SoundDiver runs very slowly for me. My machine is not fast (1.8GHz P4), but
this program is old, and I don't think the task is very intensive, editing
parameters, and MIDI I/O.
>
> I had expected Midi Quest to be a lot more impressive, given the price of the
full commercial version. I tried the current 10.x demo, which would only manage
to crash. Had to dig around to find a 9.x demo, which is also slow to use, and
crashed a few times.
>
> It seems that none of the editors can handle all the K5000 data formats, KA1,
KAA, and syx. I think SoundDiver and Midi Quest both want to use their own file
formats for loading patches/banks, and even don't seem to import system
exclusive data (at lease not or the patches I tried).
>
> I think maybe I'm missing something, as I've not had this kind of difficulty
with editor/librarian programs for other synths.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Oliver
>