Xpantastic!

Hi !

1.)
I found out, the name of the program is wrong,- it is:

Bank Dumper (TM)
Software for Atari ST Computer and
Oberheim Xpander Synthesizer
including 1000 Sounds

All rights reserved / copyright 1988 Jacques Isler AG, Zurich

"copying of the software, the manual, or any parts of the content of 
disc is striktly forbidden"
Jacques Isler AG

(the manual is in german language b.t.w.)

That means, the patches on this disk are licenced to the user who buyed 
the program.
I myself buyed it and I hope I�m not the only one.
Definitely, I didn�t found any info of this program in the web last 
nite, but I cannot imagine no one has it except me because I buyed it in 
a regular music shop in the past and it was not cheap... (DM 249.- was ~ 
USD 750.- in 1988).

It�s illegal if would spread contents of this disk out over the web.

2.)
I knowed Jacques Isler from the past �cause a friend of mine and me, we 
created the 1st prototype of  one of the 1st midified and rackmounted 
Minimoog D synthesizers, the "Midimuck" and went to the Frankfurt Music 
Fair sharing the booth of a well know studio monitor company.
Jacques was interested and wanted to distribute the machine in europe.
By some personal reasons, Karsten (my friend) started to do other things 
and the work on this project became delayed.
We finished one model to a working condition state which runs in a 
friends studio here up today, but it was never built in a series and 
never distributed.
Personally, I have no interest to ignoge the rights of someone who was 
already prepared to support us in the past.

3.)
It can be, the rights were assigned to 3rd party �cause there exists a 
liquidation of the Jacques Isler AG in november 2002

http://www.moneyhouse.ch/u/pub/jacques_isler_ag_in_liquidation_CH-400.3.018.312-6.htm

I have no interest to be liable for anything/something in that direction

If I�d do illegal things like that, it would cast a damning light on me 
if it becomes public,- I know too much guys of the software industry 
personally from the past pioneer times in Hamburg, founders of Steini 
and C-Lab/Emagic p.ex.

4.)
No Laptop

5.)
No Midi OX in use

6.)
Beside this,- it would be a very time consuming work to reload all the 
banks into an Xpander and save �em in single patch sysex format by 
reading the patchnames in the launched program on the Atari and to 
rename �em one by one on a PC.
I�m 54 now and have to make my life w/ music since decades and it�s 
difficult enough in these days,- I definitely would have no time for 
such a work.

7.)
The only solution would be in theory,- I sell the program,- but I want 
to sell it only together w/ my Xpander, including a OBX P-1 pedal, a 
Oberheim ft.switch, flight case, a Atari 1040 STE, all manuals and some 
spare parts I have.
This can be end of the year because tomorrow I have a date concerning a 
move.

If this becomes reality, I have to sell all my gear which fills a 
truck,- and to buy a more portable rig at a new location.




John Pallister schrieb:
>
> Perhaps the patches could be "recorded" by passing the
> Atari->Xpander MIDI through a laptop running MIDI-OX. Then
> the SysEx could be logged and the patches pulled out.
>
> But it still needs someone (i.e. PeWe) to methodically
> transfer each patch, and type up the patch names... Would
> the promise of the undying gratitude of the Xpander
> community be enough to convince him/her to take on this
> Herculean task? ;)
>
> Cheers,
>
> John :^P
>
>