Xpantastic!

Hi folks,

I just bought the Xplorer software from http://xplorer.programmer.free.fr/

It's very good. It only just fits my 1280x800 screen, but it does fit!

The randomise patch function is a lot of fun. I'm now convinced my 
Xpander can do those Human League - Romantic sounds!

I will post again once I've started programming the synth properly.

Cheers,

Jeremy.

I dont think USB based MIDI interfaces are going to work very well through a virtual instance of Windows (VMware or Parallels). Its not a simulation. Its a real instance of the OS running with a hypervisor layer underneath making it think its sitting on standard PC hardware. Most hypervisors have latency involved when doing USB passthru to the actual hardware ports. So expect that you may have issues with that. 

You're better approach is to bootcamp your Mac with Windows. That will allow Windows to access the hardware directly and it will work just fine. And doesnt touch or mess with your install of OS X.

-omar

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On Oct 11, 2012, at 7:45 PM, endofcommon@... wrote:

> I may give that windows 7 simulation a try on a my old 13" macbook just to use the editor and random function.
> 
> 
> Would a Emagic MT-4 work as  basic midi interface ? 
> (-end)
> 
> On Oct 11, 2012, at 4:10 PM, Jeremy Smith wrote:
> 
>>  
>> Hi folks,
>> 
>> I just bought the Xplorer software from http://xplorer.programmer.free.fr/
>> 
>> It's very good. It only just fits my 1280x800 screen, but it does fit!
>> 
>> The randomise patch function is a lot of fun. I'm now convinced my 
>> Xpander can do those Human League - Romantic sounds!
>> 
>> I will post again once I've started programming the synth properly.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Jeremy.
> 
>

I agree there will be delays, but I'm able to download firmware via
USB from Windows 7 in Parallels running on OSX 10.6,
to microcontroller development boards that are external to the machine.

Granted it's not a midi device, but a straight USB interface is likely
more demanding than Midi.

Also, Xpander patches are sent/received via sysex, which is extremely
slow to begin with.

Give it a try- I'd be interested in your results. Just make sure that
you assign the USB device to the VM, so that it
doesn't get assigned to OSX..

I may just try this myself.