Has anyone written an editor for a synth before? Specifically the 

K5000s from Kawai. Really any editor done in SYSEX would be probably 

helpful in figuring out how to approach creating this. Any help in 

Has anyone written an editor for a synth before? Specifically the  
K5000s from Kawai. Really any editor done in SYSEX would be probably  
helpful in figuring out how to approach creating this. Any help in  
this way would be helpful.

kawai-k5000-editor

Are you doing this in Max because you need to edit the K5000 from Max 

xazahouse/index.html (is missing a few features, though).

The MidiQuest 10 XL editor for the K5000 seems a lot better than the 

v.9 editor, too, based on a very small amount of mucking around with it.

Am 21.08.2007 um 14:19 schrieb Wade Hardman:

> Has anyone written an editor for a synth before? Specifically the 

> K5000s from Kawai. Really any editor done in SYSEX would be 

> probably helpful in figuring out how to approach creating this. Any 

Are you doing this in Max because you need to edit the K5000 from Max  
or because you don't know about this? http://perso.orange.fr/ 
xazahouse/index.html (is missing a few features, though).

The MidiQuest 10 XL editor for the K5000 seems a lot better than the  
v.9 editor, too, based on a very small amount of mucking around with it.

> Has anyone written an editor for a synth before? Specifically the  
> K5000s from Kawai. Really any editor done in SYSEX would be  
> probably helpful in figuring out how to approach creating this. Any  
> help in this way would be helpful.
>
> Thanks


It would be nice to edit the K5000 from Max since I could customize

the interface but other than that, if there's a nice editor out there

(MidiQuest looks okay, haven't tried it) I would use it instead of

I knew about the Xaza's house editor (which from my small amount of

use with it) seems to be extremely slow to use, interface-wise.

> Are you doing this in Max because you need to edit the K5000 from Max

> xazahouse/index.html (is missing a few features, though).

> The MidiQuest 10 XL editor for the K5000 seems a lot better than the

> v.9 editor, too, based on a very small amount of mucking around with it.

> Am 21.08.2007 um 14:19 schrieb Wade Hardman:

> > Has anyone written an editor for a synth before? Specifically the

> > K5000s from Kawai. Really any editor done in SYSEX would be

> > probably helpful in figuring out how to approach creating this. Any

It would be nice to edit the K5000 from Max since I could customize
the interface but other than that, if there's a nice editor out there
(MidiQuest looks okay, haven't tried it) I would use it instead of
creating my own.

I knew about the Xaza's house editor (which from my small amount of
use with it) seems to be extremely slow to use, interface-wise.

On 8/21/07, Jeremy Bernstein  wrote:
> Are you doing this in Max because you need to edit the K5000 from Max
> or because you don't know about this? http://perso.orange.fr/
> xazahouse/index.html (is missing a few features, though).
>
> The MidiQuest 10 XL editor for the K5000 seems a lot better than the
> v.9 editor, too, based on a very small amount of mucking around with it.
>
> jb
>
> Am 21.08.2007 um 14:19 schrieb Wade Hardman:
>
> > Has anyone written an editor for a synth before? Specifically the
> > K5000s from Kawai. Really any editor done in SYSEX would be
> > probably helpful in figuring out how to approach creating this. Any
> > help in this way would be helpful.
> >
> > Thanks
>


Only problem with the MidiQuest stuff is that the interface is a bit 

awkward and that it's kind of pricey. The new version can be run as a 

VST plugin, which is pretty rad, although I haven't had a chance to 

And it seems to be the only game in town these days for universal ed/ 

libs - UniSyn gets updates about once a decade and SoundDiver was 

killed off by Apple. Too bad - I really liked SD. If you've got more 

than a couple of hardware synths, it's a real hassle to find 

Anyway, I'm hoping to play around some more in the next day or two 

with the MQ K5K editor - I'll let you know what I think.

> It would be nice to edit the K5000 from Max since I could customize

> the interface but other than that, if there's a nice editor out there

> (MidiQuest looks okay, haven't tried it) I would use it instead of

> I knew about the Xaza's house editor (which from my small amount of

> use with it) seems to be extremely slow to use, interface-wise.

>> Are you doing this in Max because you need to edit the K5000 from Max

>> or because you don't know about this? 

>> xazahouse/index.html (is missing a few features, though).

>> The MidiQuest 10 XL editor for the K5000 seems a lot better than the

>> v.9 editor, too, based on a very small amount of mucking around 

>> Am 21.08.2007 um 14:19 schrieb Wade Hardman:

>>> Has anyone written an editor for a synth before? Specifically the

>>> K5000s from Kawai. Really any editor done in SYSEX would be

>>> probably helpful in figuring out how to approach creating this. Any

Only problem with the MidiQuest stuff is that the interface is a bit  
awkward and that it's kind of pricey. The new version can be run as a  
VST plugin, which is pretty rad, although I haven't had a chance to  
test that yet.

And it seems to be the only game in town these days for universal ed/ 
libs - UniSyn gets updates about once a decade and SoundDiver was  
killed off by Apple. Too bad - I really liked SD. If you've got more  
than a couple of hardware synths, it's a real hassle to find  
standalone editors for each one.

Anyway, I'm hoping to play around some more in the next day or two  
with the MQ K5K editor - I'll let you know what I think.

> It would be nice to edit the K5000 from Max since I could customize
> the interface but other than that, if there's a nice editor out there
> (MidiQuest looks okay, haven't tried it) I would use it instead of
> creating my own.
>
> I knew about the Xaza's house editor (which from my small amount of
> use with it) seems to be extremely slow to use, interface-wise.
>
>
> On 8/21/07, Jeremy Bernstein  wrote:
>> Are you doing this in Max because you need to edit the K5000 from Max
>> or because you don't know about this? http://perso.orange.fr/
>> xazahouse/index.html (is missing a few features, though).
>>
>> The MidiQuest 10 XL editor for the K5000 seems a lot better than the
>> v.9 editor, too, based on a very small amount of mucking around  
>> with it.
>>
>> jb
>>
>> Am 21.08.2007 um 14:19 schrieb Wade Hardman:
>>
>>> Has anyone written an editor for a synth before? Specifically the
>>> K5000s from Kawai. Really any editor done in SYSEX would be
>>> probably helpful in figuring out how to approach creating this. Any
>>> help in this way would be helpful.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>


Kawai K5000 editor