Midi Quest 11 – Edit your Hardware Synth – Win/64bit/OS X 10.9 – no more Sounddiver on OS9/OS X

TIME TO ABANDON SOUNDDIVER? YES . it’s long long dead within Apples Emagic (Logic) buyout. so there was no more chance for very very new OS’es – but one guy is keeping it up … so time to sell your old iBook if you keep it for Sounddiving.. right? Midi Quest. is the only left universal editor for MIDI Synths that support SysEx. So MIDI Quest is going next generation. Till now it was a Java tool to get all platforms working since it’s not performance you need – just…

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OSC – OSCar Oxford Synthesiser Company

THE OSCar Synthesizer from OSC Oxford Synthesiser Company OSCar (1983) another fine synth (beside the WASP by EDP (electronic dream planet) from Chris Huggett (see above about his other project EDP and his teaming up with EMS-David Cockerell) (imo he’s the one who is also responsible for EDP) It had additive synthesized waveforms as waveforms, interesting very „british“ sounding rough filters with separation and drive! (sep sets the BPF bandwidth) this is the first and last synth by OSC 1982. 2 ENVS (adsr) and 1 LFO. also nice PW control.…

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