Dave Smith Instruments SYNTHESIZERS

Hi Gene,

The Fizmo is definitely a weird & wonderful synth, and it would be 
cool to create an editor for it... Vyzor Fizmo - Now there's a brand 
name spelling that would send any self-respecting English teacher 
into convulsions! 

However, Psicraft's mandate is to work with living, breathing
hardware companies to create editors for new gear that is just being 
introduced. Legacy gear from companies that are now part of larger 
organizations is hard to get detailed SysEx info for - Usually the 
original design team has been scattered to the 4 winds, and the docs 
are incomplete. Likewise, any issues with the instrument's 
functionality are impossible to have fixed on the hardware side 
(which can kill the whole project if it's serious enough an issue). 
Finally, Psicraft is left to promote the editor alone in cases like 
this, since the manufacturer (if they still exist) usually have no 
interest in promoting something that is out of production.

The only exception to this rule is legacy gear that has a large 
established following and a solid SysEx implementation that can 
support the kind of editor features we all expect from a plug-in 
instrument GUI. Personally, I own a D-50, D-70, JP-8080 and a 
Wavestation SR, which makes these instruments feasible for legacy 
Vyzor editor support... That said, newer gear like the Evolver,
Virus, Andromeda A6, Ion, Micron and Line6 POD/PODxt lines are at 
the head of the line for completion, so we'll have to get these out 
first.

Best regards,

Tony


--- In DSI_Evolver@yahoogroups.com, "Gene Schwartz" <implode7@c...> 
wrote:
> Have you guys ever thought of writing a Fizmo editor?
>