Xpantastic!

But why would you want the editor on a separate machine? Why could it not run on the 
same machine as your DAW?

Actually, it may be because you're running a Windows machine... when I moved from 
doing music on Windows to the Mac, one of the first things I noticed was that Cubase 
does not 'hog' the MIDI ports in the same way that it does on a Windows PC.

I've just done some tests using my new JAVA editor with Cubase loaded up and I can 
change the params on the Xpander even tho' the ports can be seen on Cubase. This means 
that the ports are effectively 'shared' on the MAc which is good news. It may be the same 
for Logic tho' I haven't tested that yet.

The Pulse+ is a great machine. It sounds brilliant and the modulation possibilies are huge 
(just like the Xpander) - it is monophonic and the interface is limited. Get the Rekon VST 
plugin and it's great tho'.



--- In xpantastic@yahoogroups.com, John Pallister <john@...> wrote:
>
> 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
> john@...
>