Products Sound Quest

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SoundQuest products available at Steptime Ware:
MIDIQuest 10
MIDIQuest 10 (XL)
Infinity

Midi Quest is a software editor/librarian for your hardware synth keyboards, sound modules, and effects, all connected by MIDI.
Midi Quest XL features its own VST, Studio Connections, and MFX plug-in versions that integrate virtual versions of your hardware into your sequencer. Your MIDI synthesizer or effect unit still creates all of the sound but you create a virtual version of the instrument's interface and integrate it right into your sequencer.\\ After installation, you can audition sounds, organize a bank, edit a patch, record sound changes into a sequence, or do just about anything else that you would do with a soft-synth. You get all of the advantages of working on the computer without sacrificing that great hardware sound. Everything is handled from the comfort of your computer screen and in the digital audio sequencer of your choice. When you're done, all of your settings are saved with your song for immediate recall, just like a soft-synth.

Midi QuestXL is an easy way to get all of your instrument's patch names into your sequencer so that an accurate list was always displayed, even if the sounds stored in your instrument changed on a daily basis!

  • Tweak patches and store them for easy access.
  • Tweak patches quickly without having to spend time flipping through pages on the synthesizer.
  • Back-up your hardware's custom patches
  • A library of 5,000, 10,000, or 20,000 sounds for your instrument, easily found, when you need them.
  • Integrates with your favorite sequencer.

Midi Quest supports over 650 synthesizers, drum machines, effects, and other MIDI devices so there is a good chance that we already support most, if not all, of your hardware. You can find a list of supported instruments at http://squest.com/Windows/Instruments.html. As well, you can submit a request for instruments that don't currently have a Midi Quest module. Of course, with Midi Quest XL, you can always make your own editor, if you want.
During the last 20 years, Sound Quest has stayed at the leading edge. We invented the concept of using audio plug-in formats such as VST to virtualize hardware synthesizers. Sound Quest was the first company to provide software that automatically adds patch names to script files such as Sonar's MASTER.INS and Cubase's instrument patch scripts.\\ Finally, even 10 years after its innovation, Midi Quest is still the only software which offers maintenance of parent/child relationships between Performances and Patches in a hierarchical synthesizer - a truly critical requirement for making your instrument easy to use. Midi Quest was first released in 1989 for DOS, the AMIGA, and ATARI ST platforms and is the oldest actively supported software dedicated to getting the most from your MIDI hardware. And, Midi Quest was based on a previous 5 years experience creating software to support specific instruments such as the DX7, DX7II, D-50, M1, K1, and many others. And before that? Well, before that there was no MIDI. Midi Quest continues to lead the way with both Intel and PPC versions for the Macintosh, the only 32-bit editor/librarian supporting Windows Vista and XP and the first and only Windows 64-bit hardware virtualizer and editor/librarian software along with the only x64 plug-in software available for your instruments. When you go x64, Midi Quest is ready. Watch for more innovations from Sound Quest in the future...

For a comparison between Midi Quest and Midi QuestXL, please see:
http://squest.com/Windows/MidiQuestXL/MidiQuest-XLFeatures.html

For screenshots of MidiQuestXL, please see:
http://squest.com/Windows/MidiQuestXL/MidiQuest-v10Highlights.html