Some details:
Soundsurfer is a preset-, bankmanger only,- a librarian.
Sounddiver includes Soundsurfer and is a preset-, bankmanger, librarian as also a preset-, patch-editor
Polyframe 1.0 / 1.2 for the Atari is the ancestor of Sounddiver ( not Soundsurfer) and is a modular librarian and editor too.
Polyframe comes w/ less modules/adaptions but includes a generic adaption offering the possibility to create your own modules/adaptions for your outboard midi devices which aren´t included as adaptions in Polyframe.
IMO it´s not worth to do a search for Soundsurfer.
What you need, Polyframe and/or Sounddiver, depends on which outboard midi devices you own.
I own both the programs and Sounddiver runs best w/ Mac OS9.x on a Mac PPC or maybe a G3.
Polyframe for Atari needs a Atari ST or STe w/ 4meg of RAM and a harddrive.
Polyframe covers my:
Roland D550
Korg M1r /M1r ex
Korg Wavestation
Oberheim Matrix 1000
Yamaha DX7 / DX7mkII FD / TX modules
Yamaha SY/TG 77
Yamaha TG 500
... and a bunch of other devices like some AKAI MB modules, Lexicon LXPs and such ...
The adaptions for the modules mentioned above were included in version 1.2 of Polyframe, I never did my own adaptions.
You can create a large library for all the different modules presets/patches included in this ONE library or you can create separate libraries for the dedicated modules. Some adaptions are very good, some less ...,- there are some w/ "quick edit" and/or "in depth edit" functionality.
It´s worth to have Polyframe for the Atari IMO.
You´ll run into incompatibilities of programs and hardware modules w/ both the programs, Polyframe and Sounddiver.
Sounddiver w/ Mac OSX is a halfass solution because some functionality is lost w/ OSX.
Some of the Steinberg Synthworks programs do a much better job than Polyframe and Sounddiver ever did, but you need a separate Sythworks program for each synth/tonegenerator then and as far as these were available ever.
Best is to have a mix of all these programs or decide to move to todays solutions for PC/Mac ...
http://www.squest.com/
But also this can be a nitemare,- like all the software thingys... :-)
And it´s not cheap anyway.
PeWe
charles midi gfa pascal asm schrieb:
hello ? peilong3 you should also have tryed to find "SOUND SURFER"
it belongs alongside sound diver, no joke , its another emagic program ,,for
the atari too!
charles
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