Because of all this, getting useable patchlists from Unisyn can be hit or miss. As far as I know, only MOTU and Digidesign ever took advantage of the OSX patch list system, and Apple doesn't provide any patch lists or patch list management tools.
In order for Unisyn to publish any patch list under OSX, a series of specific conditions must be met. Therefore in terms of patch lists, Unisyn is only useful for customized user banks. This means that for most synths that can use expansion ROM banks, Unisyn is of no use for getting those expansion bank patchlists. With a few specific exceptions, Unisyn does not get or send ROM banks. Unisyn can get and send user banks for the supported synths. Unisyn will now run, but you'll need to set up the devices again. Find and trash the Unisyn prefs and Unisyn setup prefs. Go to the user directory>Library>Preferences folder. The most common cause of Unisyn not being able to run on OS 10.6 is a corrupt preference. Unisyn 2.11 will run on Mac OS up to 10.6.8. I used to check the downloads postings religiously every few months, for YEARS afterward, hoping to see a Unisyn update. The version never made it out the door, and he has no idea why. It was ready for release one December, upon which time the programmer's duties were complete, so he left. Somewhere upthread, the programmer MOTU hired to fix Unisyn offers his testimony to the fact that somewhere, Unisyn exists in a state that actually works, actually is compatible with DP's patch lists, and is even more Mac-like.
How ironic it is that we have so many phenomenal softsynths and sample libraries currently available, and at the same time modular synthesizers seem to be all the rage right now! This would require us "hardware holdouts" to program our synths using the hardware interface or a manufacturer's editor software, but at least we would have SOME means of integrating our old dusty boxes into DP. Wdegillio wrote:As much as a combination Unisyn/sample and loop librarian would be amazing to see, I'd salivate at the even the thought of a "dumbed-down" version of Unisyn which could not edit synths, but would at least publish their patchlists to DP.
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