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

From doug
Sent Wed, Dec 19th 2018, 14:40

I'd recommend SoundQuest's MidiQuest.  It can do everything you've 
described.

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Doug Huseby
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On 2018-12-19 08:18, eon wrote:
> 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