Xpantastic!

How about a "full-screen" editor running "endlessly" under 
Linux on an old laptop with some simple serial MIDI 
interface? If the editor were entirely keyboard driven, and 
the laptop could suspend/hibernate successfully when the lid 
were closed, you could think of it as a "hardware editor". 
You could even re-label the keys! ;)

I'm interested in your comparison of the Xpander and the 
Pulse, as I've always fancied a Pulse+. In the meantime I 
have a Super BassStation, but you don't hear people rave 
about those the way they do with the Waldorf.

One of these days I will write the ultimate Xpander patch 
editor. When my children have grown some more...

And that Solaris is a tasty piece of kit.

Cheers,

John :^P

envia94 wrote:
> 
> 
> Thanks for the link to the Waldorf Pulse editor. Pulse is one of my 
> favourites too, but still
> Oberheims sound much better in their own way. There are probably so few 
> Xpanders left in
> comparison to Pulses that in comparison it would not very well pay off 
> to make a VST editor
> for Xpander.
> 
> On the other hand, a simple general hardware editor would do fine, I, 
> for example, don't
> want to take the time and efforts of using computers all the time. I 
> prefered a simple and
> quick interface like that of the John Boven's Solaris to be released in 
> the near future. Maybe
> that's the way to go after Xpander and Matrix-12. Still I think, I'll 
> 'never' sell mine, because
> they cannot but getting rarer and rarer.
> 
> Take a look!
> http://www.johnbowen.com/ <http://www.johnbowen.com/>
> 
> Best regards,
> Tiitu.

-- 
John Pallister
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