Description

You love the sound of your MIDI synthesizer, but a soft synth seems so much easier to use when it comes to working with a sequencer. After all, they're both on the computer already. Right?

Not necessarily. Don't be so quick to give up on your hardware. Before you invest in a soft synth, consider getting Sound Quest's MIDI Quest XL 10. This MIDI editor/librarian comes with it's own VST, Studio Connections, and MFX plug-in versions that integrate virtual versions of your MIDI hardware, whether it be a synthesizer, drum pad, or other effects device right into your sequencer. Your MIDI hardware still creates all of the sound, but now you can audition sounds, organize a bank, edit a patch on the computer like you would with the software synth without losing that great hardware sound. When you're done, all of your settings are saved with your song for immediate recall just like they would be with a soft synth.

If you're new to synth programming but desire new sounds for your instrument, MIDI Quest XL has uncomplicated click-and-go tools that do the work for you. It's simple-to-use interface utilizes the entire computer screen, letting you manipulate all the parameters in your instrument on one page without losing your inspiration to make music because your slogging through submenus.

Not only does it support more than 650 synthesizers, drum machines, effects, and various MIDI devices, but the MIDI Quest XL is also the first Windows 64-bit hardware virtualizer with plug-in software available for your instruments. It will make you happy you held on to your cherished Korg MS200.

Sound Quest MIDI Quest XL 10 Specifications:

• Minimum Requirements: Windows XP, 2000, NT, PI with 32 MB RAM, 30 MB hard drive space
  
  Suggested Hardware: P3/Celeron with 64MB, 30 MB hard drive space

Sound Quest MIDI Quest XL 10 Features:

• 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 pop-up mode for parameters with large data ranges
• Pop-up numeric equivalent for all graphic parameters for accurate editing
• MIDI keyboard based zone and velocity editing
• 25 different control types to optimally display each parameter
• Extensive patch auditioning options
• Randomize, restore, or copy & paste any combination of parameters
• All edits automatically sent to the instrument so the instrument stays in sync with your editor
• VNRPN (Virtual Non-Registered Parameter Numbers) allow you to assign any controller to any parameter in an editor for remote control editing
• 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, create, and enhance editors with the Panel Editor
• Combi/Multi editors show names of selected sounds
• Customize your editors with your own unique Midi Quest "Skins"
• Bank Editors
• Intuitive multiple patch drag and drop interface copies or swaps patches within the current bank or within another bank
• Real-time auditioning to listen to any patch in the bank at any time
• Parent/Child relationship tracking ensures performances continue to reference the correct sounds even during bank reorganization
• Parent/Child copying ensures sounds used by a performance are also copied
• Automated display of sound names used by each performance
• All sounds used by a performance automatically tagged reducing risk of accidental overwriting
• Printable listings of all bank patches along with parent/child relationships
• Unlimited undo
• 5 different patch generation tools to create unique and usable new sounds
• 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
• Maintains the intelligent integrated Parent/Child hierarchical editing
• Open an unlimited number of Sets from any combination of instruments
• Libraries
• Store all instrument patches in a single searchable location
• Libraries hold a virtually unlimited number of patches
• Find all duplicates
• Automated intelligent keyword assignment
• Keyword sensitive auditioning
• Find similar sounds or patches
• Add descriptive comments to each sound
• Add identifying keywords to find specific patch types
• Sort sounds 3 ways
  
  Collections
• Store patches & banks from any combination of MIDI devices together in one file
• Create and restore complete MIDI System "Snapshot"s with one click
• Librarian
• Save & load all types of SysX data from each instrument
• Librarian Drivers support 650+ instruments
• 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
• Transmit MIDIX format files to your instruments
• Unique online "Fast Tips" help simplify MIDI communication
• Configurable file extensions & customizable storage directories for each instrument
• 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
• Support for over 650 MIDI devices
• Comes in an x64 version with x64 versions of MIDI Quest XL plug-ins
• Integrate right into sequencer using the included VST, Studio Connections, or MFX plug-in versions
• Save and Load instrument data to and from disk
• Supports all MIDI instrument/device data types
• MIDI interface: any MIDI interface with Windows drivers
• DVD version includes over 12 hours of video tutorials
• DVD version includes an more than 70,000 unique patches along with other SysX data
• No copy protection
• Easy-to-use program installer
• 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
• Extensive editing and organizational tools

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