Yamaha TG33 editor for Mac OSX or OS9

Honeysmack · 2013-12-14T21:29:20.000Z

Midi Quest is a piece of shit, never managed to get it working.

Programing from the TG33 front panel kills me, screen is also a little hard to read – but also remember I’m a dumb ass, regardless.

Years ago (and I mean many years ago) I would use Galaxy to edit the K2000 and some other bits. Was simple and straight forward, kinda like me.

I’ll keep searching…

OSCar · 2013-12-14T22:34:37.000Z

""Unicorn303"":

Hey lovely people - can anyone please help out or direct me to a working version of a Mac editor for my super future techno machine the Yamaha TG33 ?

OSX or OS9 is cool…in particular if anyone has a copy of Emagic’s Sounddiver or Opcode’s Galaxy for OS9 you’d make me a very happy human being.

Thanks in advance

Can’t help but a great little machine I did a track years ago using one that I should dig up from the vaults (if I can find it) - I only ever programmed mine using the front panel (not ideal) but they can sound quite good when tweaked just right.

Honeysmack · 2013-12-15T03:24:23.000Z

Thanks Oscar, I’m not very familiar with the box. So i keep thinking a software MIDI editor will be the easiest way in!

Will need to put the time in.

ignatius · 2013-12-15T03:35:03.000Z

""Unicorn303"":

Midi Quest is a piece of shit, never managed to get it working.

Programing from the TG33 front panel kills me, screen is also a little hard to read – but also remember I’m a dumb ass, regardless.

Years ago (and I mean many years ago) I would use Galaxy to edit the K2000 and some other bits. Was simple and straight forward, kinda like me.

I’ll keep searching…

lol. i’m a dumbass too. tg33 front panel isnt fun but isnt horror show like some others and has fewer parameters than more robust synths.
you could track down some old software and an older mac and run sound diver or other editor??
G5 macs are like $75 for a pair if them. other than that maybe you could persuade someone to code something for you in ctrlr

github.com

GitHub - RomanKubiak/ctrlr: Ctrlr

Ctrlr

Honeysmack · 2013-12-15T03:50:41.000Z

I have an old G4 powerbook and G4 tower that runs OS9 exculsively… I just need the actual editing software.

Must be a generational thing, lots of people offering alternatives or methods which is all very nice and cool, but I’m more focused on finding the old sofware itself.

Just tried MIDI Quest again, almost threw iMac threw the window. What a piece of shit.

OSCar · 2013-12-15T05:53:39.000Z

Do you have an oldPC running Steem - Atari St Emulator ?
If so you may be able to use this instead - last link on the page http://www.plompy.co.uk/software/

Steem can be gotten here - http://steem.atari.st/index.htm

May not help any but might be your best shot.

ignatius · 2013-12-15T07:57:33.000Z

""Unicorn303"":

I have an old G4 powerbook and G4 tower that runs OS9 exculsively… I just need the actual editing software.

Must be a generational thing, lots of people offering alternatives or methods which is all very nice and cool, but I’m more focused on finding the old sofware itself.

Just tried MIDI Quest again, almost threw iMac threw the window. What a piece of shit.

it is a piece of shit.
to find the old stuff try ebay. also you could look around the internet and ask in some forums. perhaps some of that stuff is buried in some archive somewhere.
generational… i’m 40+

ignatius · 2013-12-21T06:05:35.000Z

ps - they just announced the update of midiquest 11 which looks much improved.

http://www.squest.com/index.html

Honeysmack · 2013-12-21T08:53:37.000Z

""ignatius"":

ps - they just announced the update of midiquest 11 which looks much improved.

Thanks man, I’ll check it out if I can ever get over the emotional damage they have done to me.

Still looks like shit really. You can’t dress up a piece of shit, but you can roll it in glitter.

P.S. checked out your music, I dig it man.

wickamos · 2018-10-29T16:37:28.601Z

If anyone out there is still looking for a TG33 editor, I just released one on iPad in my app, Patch Base. Mac version will hopefully happen at some point.

Coffeeshopped – 29 Oct 18

The New Yamaha TG33 Editor and Librarian

Behold! The Yamaha TG33 is now supported in Patch Base. It's one of the top-requested editors from the Patch Base voting page, and for good reason: the TG33 has hundreds of parameters to tweak, and the synth itself just has a tiny screen and a couple...

DonovanDwyer · 2018-10-29T18:01:16.385Z

Does this work for the SY22 as well?

wickamos · 2018-10-29T18:24:53.534Z

No, no support for the SY22 yet. It is very similar to the TG33, but a lot of the sysex commands differ in various ways, and I don’t have an SY22 to develop with. I hope to do that before too long.

DonovanDwyer · 2018-10-29T18:45:47.895Z

If you were in central FL you could borrow mine

wickamos · 2018-10-29T22:51:44.571Z

If I were there I’d take you up on that.

stutech · 2020-01-30T09:42:16.329Z

Ooh! I had no idea the editor exposes the “hidden” FM parameters of the 33! Since I just got another TG-33, I’ll be sure to check this one out. Thanks!

natefrogg · 2020-08-21T23:01:22.130Z

i bought the coffeeshopped editor today for use with a tg 33, i used to use the plompysoft editor on an old laptop but want a more modern experience. i will be using a roland a01 as the bluetooth to midi hub but have ordered a bluetooth midi dongle that will replace the roland box soon enough

wickamos are you by chance in the southern california area? i’ve got an sy 22 i could lend if you are and still want to develop for this

here is a weird and cool video about the yamaha sy 22 in case anyone is curious

NMR · 2021-10-28T16:09:48.695Z

hello ! do you know about any editor for multi mode for the SY-22 ?

wickamos · 2021-10-28T16:36:55.608Z

I don’t, sorry.

wickamos · 2021-10-28T16:37:27.525Z

Hey, just saw this! I’m over in Austin, Texas.

protrusion · 2023-05-07T15:37:53.220Z

Approaching the 10th anniversary of this post. Just wanted to lay down this information for future internet adventurers:

Opcode Galaxy (& Galaxy + Editors) appears to only have a librarian for the TG33, no editor.
Emagic SoundDiver (the last public beta) does contain an adaptation for the TG33 which has an editor. (edit: synthseal made a custom adaptation but it appears lost from the internet)

I like that emagic allowed its adaptation creator to throw ‘credits’ and ‘greets’ into their help system (& then even translated them into other languages):

Here’s the editor:

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For anyone still grappling with OP’s question:

Opcode Galaxy (& Editors) is floating around the internet in collections of other Opcode software which was miraculously released without copy protection sometime in '99/'00?
SoundDiver was released as a public beta for OS X and requires a Logic dongle