Amos
Would it be hard to port the
Minitaur Editor software for OSX and Windows over to T3
Thanks in advance
david
good question, +1
It would be awesome! +1
anybody tried it yet ?
Great idea, but i wouldnt hold my breath. I doubt there would be much to profit Moogs bottom line from the implementation of such a thing. Its really sad, cuz even though my T3 cost 3 times more, the Minitaur is the ‘new kid on the block’…just look at this forum, its been completely taken over by Minitaur users. We got invited to the party, but they ran out of cake. I feel like the T3 has a tremendous amount of potential that could be unlocked via a decent editor / patch librarian. Unfortunately, mine tends to sit unused under the dust cover that i bought for it simply because it is incredibly un-ergonomic and unwieldy to manually edit a floor based synth. 
yes, i understand, and probably adapting the editor to the t3 would be no more than a small piece of cake 
When the T3 first debuted, I thought Amos had indicated an editor would be forthcoming. Let’s hope they haven’t given up on it. An editor for the T3 is as essential as it is for the Minitaur. If Moog doesn’t want to do it in-house, I would be fine with paying for a full-featured Soundtower editor.
Not me! 
No Soundtower ANYTHING for me, thanks! They can’t program their way out of a wet paper bag! Now a Rekon editor…THAT I could work with! 
My experience with Soundtower is completely different. I have to say that I’ve been quite happy with Soundtower’s editors for the Voyager, Little Phatty, Prophet08, Tetra, Mopho, Evolver, and Waldorf Q. I use all of these editors on a regular basis and find them quite reliable. The few hiccups I have experienced over the years have been resolved with assistance from Soundtower’s support.
I thought their stuff (particularly in the DSI series) was very well done. I was going to buy the Little Phatty librarian but have been trying to use computer less (as I type!).
I think that most people object to having to buy ANYTHING; see the debate here about the fact that librarian is not included for free on some products. The basic line of thinking goes something like “I just paid x and now I have to shell out another hundred bucks!”.
But this is about the Taurus 3 Editor which despite some issues I’ve seen is a great and powerful utility, and FREE.
re: the other thread, I’ve been poking around under the hood to see what makes up a Mac package. In the old days, I used to edit resource threads of apps but things have changed quite a bit.
Made stable, I would think that a substitution of the background art, remapping of controls to CCs along with a change of scale (which may be the tough part), and I don’t think too much has to change. I suppose the basic question is (as the Minitaur editor gets bigger and more full featured by the second), what do people want:
- basic patch librarian capabilities
- ability to tweak real time
- ability to quickly dial in a patch without struggling through menus
- ADDed layers like sequencer on top?
I think I’ve written about this before and the diff between the platforms is not great, but there is a difference and I think between products in development and under support, not to mention catchup on recent releases, these guys are just plain busy at the moment. I have seen guys throw together iPad apps rather quickly; anybody have experience with that?
I think you can hack the Minitaur Editor to work with Taurus 3 on OSX at least --working on it keep you posted
1: change InFo,plist
com.moogmusic.Minitaur_Editor to
com.moogmusic.Taurus_Editor
2: Sysex folder
Modify files fw_ver,syx tx_pots.syx
Would be nice if there was some word from Moog about this editor ever happening. I don’t think it’s going to and I don’t have the programming skills to make my own.
where ?
please !
i have bought the ( original ) voyager editor, works limited but oke, however feel a bit upset 'bout their ( nonexcisting ) upgrade politics and absolute lack of communication when asked 'bout it.
but that’s another story i guess…
i have Minitaur Editor working with Taurus 3
All that is required on OSX is this step
1: change InFo,plist
com.moogmusic.Minitaur_Editor to
com.moogmusic.Taurus_Editor
disclaimer --not all the Minitaur controls work obviously but all the controls common to both work 100%
Edit.tiff (919 KB)
I am using Minitaur Editor working with Taurus 3, Yeah I tried this. Its excellent in use.
For what it’s worth, I got a refund on the Rekon phatty editor because it did not work for me at all except to make me frustrated and angry though strangely enough when Amos sent me a beta of it before Rekon released it ~ that beta actually did work ~ despite it crashing quite a bit. How crazy-making maddening is it ~ that Rekon could actually make a release considerably LESS useful than the beta 
On the other hand, the soundtower standalone editor for the Voyager continues to be rock solid, and a valuable asset. My only beef with SoundTower is that they are charging full price for the plug-in version to existing standalone editor owners. Dumb dumb dumb dumb!
Unfortunately, because of the multifunction per knob design the Phatty really NEEDS a good editor.
IMHO~ An in-house Phatty editor like the Rev2 powerhouse we have for the Minitaur would completely open up the instrument, and THAT would be worth paying for.
Great news about the T3/Minitaur Editor trick ~ I think I may have to pick up a T3 now