[A6] SoundDiver and the a6

[Chris Pickett]

>>>>Write to Emagic and to Alesis or make a petition that you will send to
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>>both of them !
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>>I dsiagree. I am worried that this will piss off the Alesis people. Do you
>>understand they will NOT do this?
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>What do you have to lose, as said Justin, you have spend 3000 USD on a synth
>that is not even supported by his manufacturer, you don't have any guts !
>
>You have to understand :
>To finish the A6 adaptation editing is at least one a month of work
>Then you count 1 more month to test all the parameters
>Then I issue a beta , a few weeks more to work to make fix
>Also that does not fix the problems with the Envelope (limitation in SD) and
>some parameters that SD cannot handle so Alesis has to change them.
>And on top of that, as I said I p... o.... And thinking to sell my A6 as
>Alesis does not want to fix the MIX mode.
>I have bought Atmosphere, there are plenty very good sounds in that packadge
>for a very few USD.
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>


Well, in my opinion ... Alesis made some hardware.  It works as 
hardware.  They made no claims in their warranty to support 3rd-party 
patch-editing software.

On the other hand, Emagic makes no promise that SoundDiver will work 
100% with *every* synth out there.  It does a pretty good job though.  
Quite frankly, I think we're lucky that it works well enough to support 
getting and retrieving patches from the patch banks ... although I was 
having problems auditioning patches from within SoundDiver ... not sure 
if this can be fixed or not.

I think the best you can do is to write a detailed discussion of the 
limitations of both SoundDiver and the A6 (it sounds more like SD has 
the limitations here, as long as the A6 is following the MIDI 
specification, which is pretty broad), and forward your requests for 
feature enhancements politely to the *programmers* working on SoundDiver 
and the A6.  Seeing as there are no programmers working on the A6, I 
think you'll get further by trying to have a conversation with whoever 
wrote SD.

If nobody is developing either program anymore, then I really think 
you're out of luck.  And ... please answer my question -- what do(es) 
the SD programmer(s) actually say about all this?

Cheers,
Chris