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Midi Quest Editor/Librarian for the Roland GR-30 MIDI QUEST. Midi Quest and Midi Quest Essentials allow you to manage the following SysEx data from the GR-30: Patch Bank. Midi Quest Editor/Librarian for the Roland GR-33 MIDI QUEST. The Roland A-33 is a MIDI keyboard controller. It has no sounds of its own, but can be used to control other sound modules. The A-33 has 32 patches with numerous parameters that can be stored for each patch.

Roland's GR-33 page - Official product page. Macminer's page - Contains many patches. Ludgerhesse's page - GR 33 patches and an excellent patch editor. Roland GR-33 User Forum - Also has a very few patches and some additional resources. Roland Guitar Synth group on Yahoo - Another discussion group that covers both the GR-30 and 33. The Roland GR-30 allows you to edit each of the 128 User Patches, which consist of up to two Tones, in order to customize your sounds. Editable Tone parameters. This channel provides information of the Roland's best quality electronic musical instruments. Provides an overview of key features, functions and operational tips. Roland Canada Official Fan Page. Stay up to date with Roland news, artists, promotions, events, and more.

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NeoSynth Patch Editor

NeoSynth is an audio/MIDI expander available as an expansion board for CME keyboards (UF and VX series). It provides high quality audio instruments and effects and adds great sonic possibilities to CME keyboards. This software allows an in depth access to all parameters of NeoSynth, the audio routing can be configured, as well as all effects and channels parameters.

  • Publisher: WaveIdea
  • Home page:www.waveidea.com
  • Last updated: February 5th, 2011

KS-Editor

KSeditor is a patch editor/librarian program for the Ensoniq SQ series of synths. This includes the SQ-1, SQ-2, SQ-R, and the KS-32. It does NOT include the SQ-80 or the ESQ-1 because these are completely different synthesizers. This version should give less problems with midi communication.

  • Publisher: ksoft
  • Home page:www.ksedit.com
  • Last updated: November 23rd, 2011

GR-20-Edit

Patch editor for the Boss ME-25 guitar multi effects and Roland GR-20 guitar synthesizer. The software allows desktop tweaking and editing of the ME-25 internal parameters, making patches a lot easier to create. Download the pack from sourgeforce for free!

  • Publisher: Gumtownbassman
  • Home page:sourceforge.net

ME-25Edit

This is a neat, easy-to-use patch editor for the Boss ME-25 guitar multi effects and Roland GR-20 guitar synthesizer. The software allows for desktop tweaking and editing of the ME-25 internal parameters, making patches a lot easier to create.Main features:- A Boss ME-25 patch editor which provides on screen graphical editing of the ME 25 internal parameters and settings.

  • Publisher: Colin Willcocks
  • Home page:sourceforge.net
  • Last updated: September 28th, 2016

Roland Gr 30 Patch Editor For Windows 10

Z1 Editor 2004

Korg Z1 Editor 2004 is a Windows (95/98/ME/XP) program for the superb Korg Z1 synthesizer. The program contains many tools for the Korg Z1 based around four linked editors: a patch editor, a bank editor, a multiset editor and a pattern (arpeggiator) editor

  • Publisher: IAX Software
  • Home page:www.iax-software.com
  • Last updated: November 7th, 2011

Vyzex Vortex

This free point-and-click patch editor software brings quick and precise programming to your Vortex patches. With Vyzex Vortex running on your Mac or PC, use the mouse and/or keyboard to quickly configure any parameter of any patch on your Alesis Vortex.

  • Publisher: inMusicBrands, LLC.
  • Home page:alesis.com
  • Last updated: October 26th, 2016

Access Boss

Access Boss is a useful tool that can limit access time to your computer for other users. You can decide who, when and how long can access your computer or when can not access your computer. Access Boss can be useful for commercial use like in IT departments, small business or for home use. It can also work as parental control software that can stop your children playing games all the day.

Midi Patch Editor

  • Publisher: FSPro Labs
  • Home page:www.fspro.net
  • Last updated: December 22nd, 2008

Super JV 2080

The function of drag'n drop also permit to copy parts of the patch ( or performance, etc. ) from a patch to another.Other functions are preview, midi monitor, patch morphing, patch random, research, debug, arranging, print, virtual keyboard etc.It is also possible to import or export files in the XP or JV formats.

  • Publisher: Softvision
  • Home page:www.rolandjv.com
  • Last updated: October 28th, 2011

WaveStation Sound Editor

This sound editor is specifically designed for Korg Wavestation Family of Synthesizers.This tool brings reorganized and simplified editing windows and supports Wavestation Kbd, Wavestation EX, Wavestation A/D and Wavestation SR. With the programmable C.C Mixers, this tool can boost the performance of your joysticks.

  • Publisher: SoundTower Inc.
  • Home page:www.soundtower.com
  • Last updated: January 27th, 2010

GT Manager

The GT Manager is a full-feature patch librarian and editor for your GT-3, GT-5, GT-6, GT-8, GT-10, GT-100 or GT-001 within the Windows environment of your PC. The program has been designed to be as quick and easy to use as possible, saving you time and effort in getting your patches to sound the way you want.

  • Publisher: Partheus Software
  • Last updated: March 24th, 2016

Mellosoftron

The Mellosoftron III is a low-latency, fully programmable,hardware-independent virtual sampler. It can be played witha MIDI controller, with the computer keyboard or with themouse, and driven by a sequencer or by a MIDI player.

  • Publisher: Polyhedric Software
  • Home page:www.polyhedric.com
  • Last updated: April 3rd, 2008

SMT IT Works Database Manager

SMT IT Works Database Manager is a SQL Server database management utility that has basic database management functionality. The program can back-up , restore, attach, detach create and clone data for the client. The software aslo has a patch management facility and editor.

  • Publisher: System Managment Technologies, Inc.
  • Home page:www.smtechnologies.com

Shavlik NetChk Protect

The NetChk Protect approach bundles best-in-class patch management for Microsoft and 3rd party applications, with other key IT operational capabilities to simplify and automate the systems management challenges most relevant to current IT environments. Patch Plus delivers enterprise features without the enterprise cost or complexity.

  • Publisher: Shavlik Technologies
  • Home page:www.shavlik.com
  • Last updated: January 11th, 2012

FirePatch Stadium pack - by Jenkey1002

Stadiums:- Anfield Road – convert from PES2010.- Stamford Bridge – HD turfs Jenkey1002- Emirates – (by Gide) fullversion HD turfs + texture Jenkey1002- White hart lane + Britannia (by Twich) HD turfs + HD texture Jenkey1002- Allianz Arena – (by Gide) HD turfs Jenkey1002- Stade de France – converted from PES2010 by Jenkey1002

  • Publisher: PES Patch
  • Home page:www.pes-patch.com
  • Last updated: March 10th, 2011

Adobe Reader

With Acrobat Reader DC, you can do even more than open and view PDF files. It’s easy to add annotations to documents using a complete set of commenting tools. Acrobat Reader DC is connected to Adobe Document Cloud, so you can work with your PDFs anywhere.

  • Publisher: Adobe Systems Incorporated
  • Home page:www.adobe.com
  • Last updated: May 31st, 2018

VideoPad Video Editor

VideoPad Video Editor makes it easy to combine video clips and images, add visual effects and transitions, edit audio tracks, and render the result into various formats. It comes with a wide range of video transitions that can be readily applied to your clips.

  • Publisher: NCH Software
  • Home page:www.nchsoftware.com
  • Last updated: August 15th, 2019

AVS Video Editor

AVS Video Editor provides a simple interface for editing audio and video content. It lets you add your video clips, images, and songs and apply more than 300 video effects and transitions. You can also insert DVD menus, audio, text comments, and subtitles.

  • Publisher: Online Media Technologies Ltd., UK
  • Home page:www.avs4you.com
  • Last updated: July 15th, 2019

Wondershare Video Editor

Wondershare Video Editor is an easy-to-use audio/video editing application. It allows you to combine clips, music, and add text and special effects. This program comes with 2 different video editing modes: Easy Mode and Full Feature Mode to meet your video editing needs.

  • Publisher: Wondershare Software Co., Ltd.
  • Home page:filmora.wondershare.com
  • Last updated: July 3rd, 2017

  • Hardware >Controller, MIDI Controller

Some synths sound great, but lack hands‑on control. That's where the Patch Editor comes in..

There's a significant demand for the knobby boxes that add traditional controls to Roland's old digital parameter-access synths, and recent sales on eBay have included a PG200 (for the JX3P and MKS30) for £235$380, a PG300 (for the Alpha Juno series and MKS50) for £280$450, and a PG800 (for the JX8P, Super JX10 and MKS70) for no less than £485$785. Meanwhile, asking prices for the MKS80's dedicated programmer, the MPG80, have peaked at close to £1000$1600. These are crazy prizes for what are, if we're honest, just control panels for synths that would have had them in the first place had low cost not been a major design factor. Crack asphalt 8 airborne windows 8. So here's a thought: with modern technology, it should be possible to build a programmer that can substitute for all of these and address a bunch of other synths besides. And here it is. It's the Kiwi Technics Patch Editor.

First Impressions

The Patch Editor (or 'PE') is a chunky piece of kit that looks like it should have been made by Roland in the 1980s, but wasn't. It feels robust, too — the pots are firm and smooth, the buttons are positive, and the faders, while not the most expensive, are fine. The most pleasant surprise comes, however, when you switch it on. All of the controls that have a function when you select a given synth are illuminated, while those not in use remain unlit. Some glow red, some green, and some flash, and the nature of the illumination at any given moment provides information about the status of each control. Let's face it, the Patch Editor looks gorgeous.

Around the back, there are MIDI In, Out and Thru sockets, an input for an external controller (see 'Using The External Input' box) and an input for a 9V DC power supply that you have to provide yourself. I'm normally critical of the use of wall warts but, on a unit where size and cost are such overriding factors, I'm prepared to give the manufacturer the benefit of the doubt. It's also worth noting that, like the PG200, the PE has magnetic strips on its underside to secure it to steel cased synths. Nice touch!

So which of Roland's dedicated controllers does the PE recreate? Strangely, none of them. The manufacturing style most obviously recalls the PG200, but the range of controls is closer to that of the PG800, and none of the vintage units (nor, therefore, the controls on the original synths) map precisely to its controls; some synths use a sub-set of the knobs and sliders available, while others with extensive facilities omit some of the less important parameters. This, then, explains the main purpose of the 16x2-character LED screen; for any given synth, it shows you the name of the control that you just moved (which may not be the name silk‑screened onto the panel) and its current value.

Given its resemblance to the PG200, I started testing the PE by turning to my Roland JX3P and removing its dedicated programmer from the top panel. I found that the PE is somewhat larger than the Roland unit, but it still fits into the available space, so all was well. Initial setup was simple, with just five menu settings: the synthesizer that I wanted to control, the MIDI channel that I wanted to use for that choice, the incoming MIDI channel for any controller keyboard connected, the brightness of the PE's controls, and the parameter to be controlled by the external input. However, I was unable to proceed any further because the PE doesn't use the six‑pin DIN sockets used by the JX3P and the PG200; it only has standard MIDI sockets. Thankfully, the manual provides the pin‑out diagram to enable you to make a converter cable, so I spent an hour doing so, plugged the five‑pin MIDI Out of the PE into the six‑pin Programmer In on the JX3P, took a deep breath, switched on and.. it all worked perfectly!

If you have a JX3P but have never used it with a programmer, you've missed one of life's little pleasures. It's such a simple synth, but such a pig to program from its front panel. Yet it sounds lovely, and it comes alive when connected to a handful of knobs and switches. This was a good start.

Further Testing

The Patch Editor's back panel features just a quarter‑inch input for an expression pedal, MIDI In, Out and Thru sockets, and a port for the 9V external power supply.

Of course, the PE does much more than program the JX3P, and setting it up for use with other synths was even simpler because there was no need for special cables. I could simply plug my controller keyboard into the PE's MIDI In, and then direct its MIDI Out to the instruments that I wanted to control. Any incoming MIDI notes and performance data are interlaced with the programming data generated within the PE itself, so I could play and edit simultaneously, thus auditioning the results of my twiddles in real‑time.

I set up a chain of four instruments: a Roland Alpha Juno 2, an MKS70 Super JX, an MKS80 Super Jupiter, and a Korg EX8000. I wanted to use the Juno 2 as the controller keyboard, so I connected its MIDI Out to the MIDI In of the PE, the MIDI Out of the PE back to the MIDI In of the Juno, and the MIDI Thru on the Juno to the chain of modules. No nasty MIDI loops occurred, and all worked as it should.

Editing the Juno 2 itself worked well, because all of the synth's parameters were mapped to the PE, with the exception of one important area: two of the envelope parameters were permanently set to values that truncated the contour from five stages (AD1D2SR) to the more common four. This meant that the contour could be mapped to the ADSR sliders on the PE, but at the expense of one of the synth's best features. So I emailed Murray Hodge at Kiwi Technics, and 24 hours later a new version of the operating software arrived. This retained the ADSR compromise on the original setup, now called Page 1, but also offered the full set of seven contour parameters on a second page. This was much better.

The next synth in the chain was the MKS70. There are two ways of addressing this using the PE. I could have made another cable to use the PG800 input, but having reminded myself how poor my soldering is, I decided to use the MIDI socket and the PE's MKS70 mode rather than its PG800 mode. Unfortunately, my MKS70 had an early 'A' ROM (v1.04), and v1.08 is required to be able to program both voice boards via MIDI. This is a simple chip update available from Vintage Planet in Holland and, after installing it, I could edit Tone A, Tone B or both simultaneously. Similarly, if you want to edit a Super JX10 over MIDI rather than in PG800 mode, you'll have to install the Colin Fraser SysEx upgrade ROM, which is available for £15 from www.colinfraser.com. (These problems are well‑documented deficiencies in Roland's original operating systems, and in no way do they reflect badly upon Kiwi Technics.)

Editing the MKS70 from the PE again worked well, although there is one compromise in the parameter map that concerns me: the degree to which velocity affects how much the oscillators' pitches, the oscillator mix, the filter cutoff frequency and the VCA respond to their envelopes is the same for each. This means that if you want to create a patch in which the velocity affects the oscillator mix a little, the cutoff frequency a bit more and the amplifier a lot, you can't program it from the PE. What's more, the Key Follow options in Env1 and Env2 are not implemented. I feel another email to Murray Hodge coming on!

Like the Juno 2 and MKS70, the MKS80 can also be programmed over MIDI, so it's not necessary to use the dedicated MPG80 input. And, as with the previous synths, the PE worked well with it. However, because of the size of the Super Jupiter's patch map, more compromises were required. For example, the modulation polarity of the two oscillators is always the same, and the Key Follow amounts for both Env1 and Env2 are missing from the patch map. Many of the performance controls are omitted too; if you want to program things such as the key mode, glide, the bender and aftertouch, you'll have to turn to the synth itself to do so. But if this makes me sound a bit negative about the PE, it's only because I have an MPG80. Had I been forced to program my MKS80 from its front panel, I would have sold it years ago. For anyone with an MKS80 but without Roland's dedicated programmer, the PE will be a godsend.

Although not a Roland synth, setting up the PE for use with the Korg EX8000 was as simple as before, and worked as well as before. But, like the original Juno 2 page, the Korg's five‑stage ABDSR contours were initially curtailed to four‑stage contours. After a second email conversation with Kiwi Technics, another upgrade was forthcoming and, again, the revised version retained the ADSR profiles on page 1, but mapped the full six parameters to the controls on page 2. Nonetheless, as elsewhere, a few of the synth's lesser parameters still remained unaddressed. In this case, the auto‑bend parameters are not controlled, nor are those relating to aftertouch, the joystick or portamento.

Two Unexpected Bonuses

The controls on the Patch Editor's front panel only light up if they have a function on the selected synth model — very helpful.

The PE also supports the Roland Juno 106, but this seems rather pointless given that it already sports a dedicated control per parameter. However, there's one module that uses the same synth engine as the Juno 106 but has no controls whatsoever: the MKS7 Super Quartet. Grabbing yet another MIDI cable, I connected mine and found that selecting the appropriate MIDI channel on the PE (1 = bass, 2 = melody, 3 = chord section) was all that was necessary to make it possible to edit each of the parts. Of course, neither the editor nor the module could store the results (neither has memories), but I have never edited my MKS7 before, and doing so proved to be an unexpected pleasure.

One less obvious feature of the Patch Editor is its ability to translate MIDI Continuous Controllers to SysEx commands. Many software products and some hardware control surfaces send only MIDI CCs, and many synthesizers' programming systems respond only to SysEx. But, given that there's a standard MIDI CC map, it's possible for the PE to accept the incoming CCs and translate them into the appropriate SysEx commands for whichever synth is selected at the time. (Well, with the possible exception of the PG200 or PG800 options, which I didn't test.) There is, however, a caveat: SysEx uses more data than a MIDI CC for the same message, so there's a small risk of locking up the Patch Editor if you ask it to do too much at once. I didn't experience this, but I'm not a frenetic knob twiddler, so I am at less risk than some users.

Editor

Another benefit of programming via SysEx is that each synthesizer responds only to its own data messages. To test this, I left my MKS80 and MKS7 in series, set the MKS80's MIDI channel to '1', and sent a bunch of CCs to the PE. As expected, I was able to edit each module independently by selecting the appropriate synthesizer in the PE's menu. Bravo!

Conclusions

Kiwi Technics first conceived the PE as a box for tweaking digital parameter access synths while performing. This meant that they were unconcerned if some of the lesser parameters on any given synth were unavailable in the edit maps. In contrast, I see it as a complete programming system; a potential replacement for the aging Roland PG- and MPG-series programmers, as well as a way to make synths such as the EX8000 far more accessible than before. When viewed in this way, the missing parameters are a more significant shortcoming. Fortunately, the flexibility of the design makes it possible to extend the edit maps, so I think that the PE will continue to evolve for some time to come. Furthermore, Hodge has already stated that he hopes to add DSI's keyboards and modules, and perhaps even the Korg M1 to the list of supported synths. Nonetheless, the remaining Roland programmer, the PG1000, is not going to get the PE treatment. He told me, 'I didn't go the D50 path, because if you move a control, the new setting doesn't sound until you lift the note and replay it. That annoyed me. Add to that the lack of control over the sampled part of the sound, and it just didn't feel right for the PE.”

So what's the verdict? To be honest, I could continue digging out vintage synths and testing the PE with them, but I see no point, because every time I do so the result is the same. In short, it works extremely well, even though there are compromises that I would prefer to see addressed. But when you consider what it's like to edit these synths without any form of programmer.. well, those compromises seem much less important.

There are, of course, other ways to control knob‑less synths, including software editors, as well as programmable hardware controllers, but I'm not aware of any other unit that addresses so many synths in a quasi‑dedicated fashion, and offers so much control at any given time. If the PE has a shortcoming, it's the need to keep track of which control does what for any given synth. I asked Hodge whether he would produce overlays with the correct legends, but he said that they would be too expensive to be commercially viable. I think that he should reconsider. If I were to use the PE extensively, I would want these, because they would make the experience much more pleasant and more productive. It would also be nice to see Kiwi Technics supply the dedicated MIDI‑to‑PG series cables that some owners will need, but I accept that it may not be commercially viable to do so.

Finally, we come to the issue of the price. At NZ$550 (which, at the time of writing, is £270 plus or minus a few quid$435), with shipping at NZ$80, plus import duty and VAT (if charged), you're looking at somewhere between £300 and £400$500 and $600 in total. This isn't pocket money, but it's considerably less than you might now pay for a PG800 alone. In fact, if you own more than one of the instruments that the PE programs, it's not very much at all for something that will inject new life into your revered old synths and modules.

Updating The Patch Editor

Because of the evolution of the Patch Editor during the course of this review, I upgraded its processor once and its software twice. Upgrading the hardware was straightforward because the chip is socketed; all that was required was the usual degree of care when disassembling and when handling sensitive chips. The software upgrades were even simpler. Kiwi Technics supplied two files on each occasion: a bootloader and the OS itself. I used SysEx Librarian on my MacBook Pro with a Tascam 428 as a USB‑to‑MIDI converter, and everything worked perfectly first time.

Using The External Input

The Patch Editor's external input allows you to use a conventional quarter‑inch TRS expression pedal to control one parameter of your choice, with the amount of deviation determined by the Ext Input knob. I found that a Roland EV5 pedal worked perfectly and, although this may seem a relatively trivial extension to any given synth's facilities, it can make a huge difference to how you use it. You can also connect a CV from a modular synth to this input, so if you fancy hooking up your polyphonic MIDI modules to your Moog System 55, you can now do so!

The JX3P Upgrade

Murray Hodge has developed a JX3P upgrade that offers six keyboard modes, full tuning capabilities for both oscillators, portamento, velocity and aftertouch sensitivity over MIDI, independent modulation levels for the oscillators, filter and amplifier, two LFOs with greater ranges and more waveforms, two contour generators, an arpeggiator, a chord mode, a pattern play mode, an increase to 64 editable patches, and more. Installation is not trivial (the original CPU must be desoldered and replaced with a socketed piggy‑back board) but it shouldn't take a competent engineer much more than a couple of hours to complete. A further upgrade option offers control over the synth's chorus effect, while a third makes the upgraded JX3P backward compatible with the PG200. I'm really looking forward to trying it when the final release version becomes available.

Price: NZ$175 (approx £80) plus shipping.

Compatible Synthesizers

KeyboardRelated module
CheetahMS6
KorgDW6000, DW8000EX8000
MoogLittle PhattySlim Phatty
OberheimMatrix 1000
RolandJX3PMKS30
JX8P, Super JX10MKS70
MKS80
Alpha Juno 1 & 2, HS10, HS80MKS50
Juno 106 & 106S, HS60MKS7
SCISixTrak, Max

Pros

  • It breathes new life into otherwise impenetrable synths.
  • It's a very cost-effective alternative to multiple, dedicated programmers.
  • It feels chunky and robust.
  • It looks gorgeous.
  • The response to customer feedback is first class.

Cons

  • Some lesser parameters are omitted from many of the edit maps.
  • No templates are available, so the panel names are not necessarily correct for a given edit map.
  • Two of the options require non‑standard cables that are not supplied.

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Summary

It's no fun editing a digital parameter-access synth, and even if a dedicated programmer exists, it's likely to be expensive. The Patch Editor already substitutes for four of Roland's dedicated programmers and also addresses vintage synths from Korg, Sequential, and others. It's a great idea and it deserves to be a success.

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