[AH] The cheapest way to program Roland MKS-7

From eon
Sent Wed, Dec 19th 2018, 14:16

Guys,



I recently got a hardware sequencer (the great Polyend Seq - 
http://polyend.com/product/seq-sequencer) for demoing stuff we have for 
sale at analogia.pl but also for use with my Synthi and VCS3 (via boxes 
that are being made for me).

In the meantime, I'm learning to use the Seq and practice my rhytmic / 
harmonic / medolic skills using the MKS-7 (one of the most underrated 
synths on the planet). It's so much fun that I think I will keep it. 
However, the MKS-7 has one disadvantage - it has no memory, only presets 
(that are far from perfect). They can be altered using a 106 hooked up 
via MIDI or with another editor.

Now the question: what is the cheapest way to program a Juno-106 (the 
MKS-7 is a 106 MIDI-wise)? I use computer for monitoring / multitrack 
recording anyway, so I think the answer will be: an editor. Which ones 
do you recommend? I would use it with an external MIDI controller, so 
the editor's parametres would have to be easily assignable to the 
controller. Like I mentioned, the "7" does not have memory so what I'd 
need is that whenever I dial up a patch in the editor, it would have to 
be dumped into the "7". Is it a standard routine?


Thanks for your input,
Maciek