New Site, Knob Monster, Is Like iCloud For Your Vintage Synth Patches
Knob Monster is a new site that’s sort of like iCloud for your vintage synth patches.
The site is a browser-based SysEx librarian for your synths. It uses the Web MIDI API to connect directly to hardware like the DX7, Juno-106, Korg M1, CZ-101, Roland D-50 and more, and let you back up your synth to the cloud.
There are no drivers or desktop installs – you just plug your synth in, and Knob Monster reads the synth’s memory buffer, parses the patch names from hex and backs everything up to the cloud.
Knob Monster features dedicated name-decoding parsers for the Yamaha DX7 (and compatible synths like DX7II, TX7, TX81Z), Roland Juno-106, Korg M1, Roland Jupiter-6 (Europa-modded), and the Casio CZ series. It also has a universal Generic Scan that works with almost any vintage synthesizer by scanning raw SysEx bulk dumps for readable ASCII character arrays to extract patch names automatically.
Knob Monster is available now for $39.
