It's not just a small market. It's a shrinking market. That's the killer.pounce wrote:I recognize that this software has a smaller market, but nonetheless hardware synths are still going to be around for the foreseeable future.
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None of know the exact economics of this, nor can I guess how hard it would be to port the code over.
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Not really digging Midiquest and not really sure it's being supported anymore.
Dr T (who developed the original X-oR) said it would cost him about a million to port KCS to the Mac from the Atari (using the same processors). That was a long time ago. If you could still port Unisyn for that amount, you'd have to sell 10,000 copies of an update for 100 a copy, just to cover the development, and probably twice that to document, package, distribute, and support the application. To make it even marginally worth the effort, you'd want well in excess of 50,000 copies sold over three years. Someone might take that on as a labour of love, but no investor would touch it.
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MIDIQuest is available and supported.
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You can take the money you might have spent on Unisyn V3, and spend it on an old laptop Mac that supports screen sharing. Set up a simple MIDI network connection, and have this start up and autostart Unisys. Then control it from one the Spaces on your main Mac.