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Hi.
It took me ages to work this out too.
I even had a go at working out my sons (pc) laptop to try & sort it out (!!) not an easy mission.
midiquest is like $300 or something, which might be great if you have 30 synths, but is a bit much to pay for one little AN1x.
ANfactory is much more realistically priced, and I would have got that, except for the fact that I just got given 'parallels for mac', so I now run AN1x edit on windows XP, which works fine, although I have to disconnect the midi out of the AN1x if I want to load sounds into the synth, and dissconnect the midi IN when I want to save sounds to the computer. some sort of midi thru issue of something. 
leaving both in & out of the USB-MIDI cable connected caused all sorts of 'illegal data' type stuff.  

Hello BTW  ;) newby here, to yahoo groups.


--- In AN1x-list@yahoogroups.com, Gerald Raucamp <yahoogroups@...> wrote:
>
> On Wed Mar 23 2011, jondl_2000 <jondl_2000@...> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > --- In AN1x-list@yahoogroups.com, "marcobasile78" <marcobasile78@> wrote:
> > >
> > > ...anyone have an editor that runs with this OS for MAc 
> > > thx
> > >
> > 
> > I think MIDI Quest XL is the only *current* Editor/Librarian that will run under Mac OS X 10.5
> > 
> > http://www.squest.com/Macintosh/MidiQuestXL/MidiQuest-XLFeatures.html
> > 
> > I've a copy of Sound Diver public beta 2 that works fine, but *if* you could find a download you would _still_ need an XS Key to run it :-(
> > 
> > I kept a partition with Mac OS X 10.4 so I can run Mac OS Classic and AN1xEdit, but to be honest I seldom make the effort. I'm comfortable navigating the AN1x front panel and don't much miss AN1xEdit.
> > 
> > Jon
> > 
> 
> 
> If you have a spare XP license available, why not running a simple
> Windows session in VirtualBox? Using a usb-midi thingie wouldn't be much
> of a problem for VirtualBox (or any other virtual solution which
> supports USB passthrough). That way you can run An1xEdit regardless of
> platform.
> 
> Not sure though how it would work with other (non usb-)midi interfaces, but most
> of them could probably be patched through using various solutions.
> 
> Unfortunately my USB Midi interface isn't ready yet
> (http://www.midibox.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=gm5_expansion_5x5_board)
> otherwise I could test it out and tell you whether it works from a Linux
> perspective :D
> 
> -- 
> Gerald Raucamp - cavey@...
>             http://www.cavey.nl
>