Rudy Verpaele has “developed a new advanced VL70m editor – librarian – effect editor” that he calls VL70-Wizard or VL-Wiz.
It has been in beta for a long time but now he’s almost reached the point for a official release. Here’s his update sent to me:
“Hi Art
The final beta 3 has been released and yes, the next release will be a commercial release…finally…
“Hi Art
The final beta 3 has been released and yes, the next release will be a commercial release…finally…
The Beta3 did become a bit too complex for setup. This will be resolved as part of the commercial version.
VL-user can still request a copy, as long that they realise that support will be limited so I can focus on the commercial release.
Hereby an overview of the standard features:
- Fast and direct access to an organized voice library (contains about 900 voice I did collect. Important: Some 3rd party voices are protected and not part of the VL-Wiz)
- Ability edit voice tags and search voices based on this tag information
- Native sysex voice format, so you can also send the voice with any kind of sysex transfer tool
- Realtime parameter editing using 4 graphical editing modules, the Element Voice, XG Part, VL70m Effects, Tuning
- Intelligent activation and deactivation of parameters based on the selected Voice algorithm
- Parameter labels that correspond to the selected Voice algorithm (eg string vs pipe)
- Ability to load Current Voice dumpout from the VL70m
- Compatibility with PLG-VL cards (XG-VL mode)
- Import capability for .ALL .LIB and .SYX (VL70m format only)
- Voice Template manager (similar to the Yamaha Visual Editor)
- Ability to store voices into the Custom + Internal Voice slot 1 to 6 of the VL70m (and in the commercial version up to 16 slots for the EX5)
- Tooltips explaining what the advance parameter does
And these are the additional features as of beta 3;
- Poly and Multilayer support. Editing VL-Voices across multiple VL70m & PLG VL’s
- Quickly (re)-store a chunk of settings (eg. EQ’s, Harmonizer settings etc.) using Parameter snippet tool
- Mapping midi controllers to VL-parameters using midi-learn
- Play a one track midi loop while editing using the midi phrase tool
- Sending midi reset (panic) to kill hanging notes
- Loading & Sending VL70m effects from another voices without touching the element voice
- A configurable sysex engine, set interval time between sysex dumpouts and sysex bytes, handle up to 8 VL devices using their individual Device ID and Part
- Switch your synth into VL-Mode (eg. S90, MOTIF, EX5, MU series) by sending an initialization sysex as defined in the listbook of your synth
- Send extra sysex data before and after each voice(s) upload
- Select multiple midi-in and midi-out ports
- Select the midi-in and out channel
- Enable/disable midi-thru
- Considerable amount of bug fixes
- Color Schemes
- Undo feature (doubleclick on parameter does set back its previous value)
- Improve license key validation
It is clear that I will need to make a few video tutorial to explain the usage of all these power features but first I focus on finishing the commercial version.”
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