syntheditors.com: new site for hardware editors/librarians

[iowastate89]

Hello hello hello,

I just set up a web site to act as a resource for hardware synth editors/librarians at https://www.syntheditors.com

Personally I find that hardware synths that can be controlled via plugins in the DAW add a lot of flexibility, and I hope some of you will find this resource useful. I tried to list and populate as many as I could (including commercial, non-commercial in multiple formats). This is a work in progress, but please let me know on this forum or via the links on the site if there are more editors you'd like to see on there. You don't need a login to view anything (except if you want to leave a comment/review)

Thanks for your feedback; I'm a backend software developer by trade so this was an experiment to learn some UI frameworks, and hopefully this will be useful to some of you!

[psycho45039]

MIDI Quest Pro covers a lot of hardware and installs VST/AU/AAX plugins for the different hardware units you might be using.

https://squest.com/Products/MidiQuest13 ... ments.html

[HAL76]

FS1R
https://synth-voice.sakura.ne.jp/fs1r_e ... glish.html

MKS-80
https://roland-mks-80-editor-controlle.jimdofree.com/

MKS-50 https://audiobombs.com/items/94/mks-50- ... programmer

Matrix 1000
http://m1000-manager.linuxtech.net/

[planetearth]

Hello hello hello,

I just set up a web site to act as a resource for hardware synth editors/librarians at https://www.syntheditors.com

Personally I find that hardware synths that can be controlled via plugins in the DAW add a lot of flexibility, and I hope some of you will find this resource useful. I tried to list and populate as many as I could (including commercial, non-commercial in multiple formats). This is a work in progress, but please let me know on this forum or via the links on the site if there are more editors you'd like to see on there. You don't need a login to view anything (except if you want to leave a comment/review)

Thanks for your feedback; I'm a backend software developer by trade so this was an experiment to learn some UI frameworks, and hopefully this will be useful to some of you!

The K2x00 Remote isn't a librarian per se, and it doesn't work exactly like other editors do (by sending SysEx data of the entire patch) back and forth), but it probably belongs on your list.

It functions as a real-time display of your K2000, K2500, K2600, K2661, or KSP8 front panel, and it allows you to edit patches on the sampler and store them right there, on the sampler. It functions as a plug-in to a DAW or as a standalone app. I'm not involved with the product, but I think it's a very useful tool for some Kurzweil owners.

https://godlike.com.au/index.php?id=358

Also, if you don't mind a couple of suggestions on the site:
1) Alternating the background color for rows could be helpful for following the row across the screen. (Even making the table a bit narrower could help.)

2) As with Excel, having an option to keep the column headers as you scroll down would also be very helpful as the table starts to get larger.

3) Some people are going to want to know if the editor has a CLAP version.

4) Many people would probably be interested to know if the editor is free or paid. (On the first page of the table, it shows MIDIQuest with a "0" in the "Cost" column. I couldn't tell if the 0 was supposed to mean "Free" or "price unknown" or what.

5) I don't know how you'd designate something like MIDIQuest which has different versions for different numbers of synths, or Chicken Systems' Translator, which isn't really an "editor" as much as it's a sample "translator". But it offers editing features and modules for certain samplers (at different price points, like MIDIQuest).

6) Some people might also want to know if the editor/librarian requires any additional software. (Some use Java, for example, which may not be provided that with the editor/librarian.)

7) Some designation of what the "Cost" is measured in (Dollars? Euros?) might help.

A column for OS compatibility might help. It's not really necessary for AU plug-ins, but for all other formats, people might want to know which OS is supported. Linux users in particular might want to know this.

Other than that, the site looks like it could be useful to a lot of people. I know the it's still new, and I hope it works out well for you!

Steve

[iowastate89]

Ok thanks for these super useful suggestions; I put some of these on the backlog and updated a few of these new editors in the db.

Yeah, I was still torn on how to handle MIDIQuest, as they have so many items and can starve out others. I had a number of approaches on that one (like including them only as a single entry for listings, but having them show up in search) but for now I just took the brute force approach of duplicating them for each supported synth (the dev was very helpful in giving me a spreadsheet with all their offerings, so that helped trim down the manual entry).

Some of the editor specifics (OS, and CLAP compatibility and other formats) are on the detail page for each editor. I initially included those as their own columns but it started to get busy; maybe the way to do that cleaner is to have a filter sidebar on the side

[audiojunkie]

I have some bad news for you, iowastate89..... Some people have not read the MidiQuest small print. The only version that allows for plugin control is the full version. You are going to have to go back and make a lot of price changes from $89 to the full price, in order to be accurate. Bummer news, I know. I wish it wasn't so, because I would have bought MidiQuest for my Roland JV-1010 otherwise.....

https://squest.com/Products/MidiQuest13/Compare.html

$479 is the price that has to be paid to get the full version.

[audiojunkie]

Also, your web site looks really good, except that it does't list what OSes are supported by what software...

[iowastate89]

Also, your web site looks really good, except that it does't list what OSes are supported by what software...

Ahh, yeah I'll update on MQ, fair point there. (I do include both standalone editors as well as plugins, so they are an outlier that has pricing for both.. I could put in the editor page "notes" that the VST version costs more, or something similar, gotta think on that)

Yeah I have the OS information on the individual page for each editor when you click on it (I did all those by hand, so I'm sure there are errors/omissions in there!) I was thinking initially of putting all that info in a popup when you click on an editor, but it looked a little clunky. Thanks for the kind words, this was just a project for me to learn some UI web development

[audiojunkie]

Also, your web site looks really good, except that it does't list what OSes are supported by what software...

Ahh, yeah I'll update on MQ, fair point there. (I do include both standalone editors as well as plugins, so they are an outlier that has pricing for both.. I could put in the editor page "notes" that the VST version costs more, or something similar, gotta think on that)

Yeah I have the OS information on the individual page for each editor when you click on it (I did all those by hand, so I'm sure there are errors/omissions in there!) I was thinking initially of putting all that info in a popup when you click on an editor, but it looked a little clunky. Thanks for the kind words, this was just a project for me to learn some UI web development

I'd say this is a very useful project! Thank you for your hard work!