Dave Smith Instruments SYNTHESIZERS

I have several of the SoundTower editors and I tell you that I they 
alternate between amazing and frustrating.  The interface is 
inscrutable and there are whole sections of the program that you are 
sort of left to your own devices on how they work.  Also, generally 
it can be difficult and unforgiving, so if "ease of use" is one of 
your big concerns, then don't buy it, you will be sad and 
frustrated.  Support can be spotty, sometimes you get a response 
instantly, sometimes never.

That said, feature-wise I think its pretty amazing and deep and is 
better than any of the other editors out there (which in my mind is 
not saying a ton).  The stuff like Phantom Banks, Genetics, and 
Snapshots are ideas that I think the other editors should really 
take a page from.

Its just too bad the usability is so low, otherwise you would really 
have a great tool to match the Poly. I am tempted to purchase 
something like Unisyn as a librarian, and just use the SoundTower 
editor for developing new patches.

I speak ONLY of the PC version.

--Brent 





> What would you expect? I think 99.9999999% would say it saves your 
> edited preset. Wrong! With DSI it saves the original libarary