Just put stickers over the labels…
(I do know it is software displayed on your computer screen 
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Yes, looks like Vyzex died in 2013, and then M-Audio basically orphaned the Venom hardware, at least regarding anything beyond the front panel.
Looking for alternative software editors for the Venom I did notice this:
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I may have discovered a new rabbit hole to plunge down. The Edisyn editor has some cool patch-discovery features, but it doesn’t support the Miniak. It’s cross-platform, written in Java, and the manual contains a very inviting section on adding support for new synths.
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Hum, yeah. Sporadic progress on this, to be charitable. The DX7 editor in Edisyn is known to talk successfully to the rather excellent open source DX7 emulator, Dexed, which is handy because I don’t possess any hardware that Edisyn can talk to. Actually getting either to work is easy, but building a MIDI loopback to enable them to communicate has so far eluded me. I could skip the Dexed stage but it would greatly simplify troubleshooting if I had a known sane Edisyn scenario as a reference.
Last night I remembered to download a recent Java SDK so I can start work on an Edisyn-based Miniak editor. Other things are seizing my attention, predictably, but once I get the MIDI loopback playing nicely I ought to make decent progress. A decade or two ago I used Eclipse as a Jave IDE. I suppose I’ll have to go looking at whatever the kids are using nowadays.
Edit: looks like Eclipse is still in with the cool kids. It’ll do.
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This afternoon I snatched an hour or two to play around with the Miniak and my two analogue semi-modulars. Thanks to a few new 6.35mm TRS cables and the new audio interface, I was able to configure all three instruments for simultaneous direct monitoring. No DAW connections so far but I anticipate soon being able to build up a track with the DAW by recording the instrument parts. Just as soon as I can spare some time to RTFM.
There is only one of me, not three (that’s a shame, if only because the sex tape would be amazing, though not necessarily popular.) So I don’t strictly need more than one instrument connected at a time, but having all the instruments available at a moment’s notice is much more convenient during recording and mixing. Fiddling with lots of cables and plugs and sockets isn’t exactly conducive to performance (but enough about sex tapes.)
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I did have some success following Justin Carey’s recipe for a Vox Continental sound on my Miniak. It definitely has a draw-bar organ timbre, which is enough for me. A Miniak isn’t a Prophet but they’re architecturally similar enough for patches as simple as this to transcribe well.
A really fun thing might be to try the same recipe to produce a Vox/Hammond preset for the Orba. I’ll try that and see how it goes.
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I finally found a reasonably usable realtime spectrum analyzer app for Android. You have to kiss a lot of frogs to find a prince, I guess.
Source code at GitHub - woheller69/audio-analyzer-for-android: A fork of audio-analyzer-for-android in Google code, with a lot of enhancement.
Licence is Apache V2.
I guess I’ll have to muck around with this to work out what effect the Orba’s morphing waveforms have on the dynamics of the sound. For me the idea of morphing the shape of an oscillator’s wave output is exciting, but a complete unknown.
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