Cme NeoSynth 24 — patch Editor Software for Synthesizers: Enhance Your Sound Experience [13/59]

The patch editor software

The fun of the Neosynth doesn’t stop here!When you have attached a USB cable to the Neosynth from your

computer and installed the patch editor software (both Windows and Macintosh versions are available),

you can change the sounds, store them, and make all kinds of settings for multitimbral use of the syn-

thesizer in conjuction with a MIDI sequencer.

In this manual we will take an extensive look at the parameters that can be changed using the patch ed-

itor.

To do so, you need to connect your computer with the Neosynth through a USB-connection. There is no

need for a driver, it is plug and play. Even in Windows XP, although you could use the provided driver to

change the “universal USB device”-name into“Neosynth”as device name.

Installing the editor (Windows):

Unzip the editor file on the CD onto your harddrive. Then run the installer.

Installing the editor (Macintosh):

Unzip the editor file from the CD onto your harddrive. That will create a DMG file on the desktop from

which you can copy the program into the programs folder on your Mac.

If you have made the USB-connection and turned on the VX or UF keyboard you can start up the patch

editor. It will start up with this first screen, the “Preferences”screen.

The upper part of every screen in the patch editor will have the same parameters:

In here you can select various MIDI settings etc. We will go through every parameter of this screen first (see

screen shot next page):

First you can select one of the 16 preset slots. A preset will contain all settings for the 16 channels.You can

see a preset as a container for a multitimbral setup with a maximum of 16 (MIDI)channels. It contains the

audio routing settings for the synth and the external inputs, the effect settings, the MIDIchannel settings,

the so-called synth channel settings, containing parameters like filter cutoff, resonance, attack, decay, re-

lease etc. You can create as many as 16 presets.

Furthermore there are three buttons“Send”,“Receive”and“Reset”. With these three buttons you can send

a preset to the NeoSynth, receive a preset from the NeoSynth and reset the NeoSynth to the factory pre-

set. To the right of these knobs you see the preset number that is selected for sending or receiving, a pro-

gressbar which shows the progress of sending or receiving a preset plus two MIDI indicators, telling you

if there is action going on on the MIDI in and/or MIDI out port. The user can change the name of the pre-

set in the textfield. By default the names are Preset 1, Preset 2 etc.