GX-700 Sound Station, a Windows MIDI parameter editor and librarian for the BOSS GX-700 Guitar Effects Processor

After more than a decade of commercial availability, GX-700 Sound Station has been updated to run correctly on modern operating systems (mainly for Windows 7) and it is now distributed as freeware. The plan is to fix the problems it had and improve its features. It should run on Vista and possibly on XP too, although this hasn't been confirmed yet.

Current version is 4.01 and its release date is 04/05/2012

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Change Log:

04/05/2012 - Version 4.01
- Fixed inconsistency of 2 parameters in the delay effect window.

22/04/2012 - Version 4.00
- First modern release

Installation steps/how to use:

1. Download the ZIP file.
2. Extract its contents to the place you desire, for example, to "C:\Program Files\GXEdit4\"
3. Make a shortcut on your desktop, (or wherever you want the software to be launched from) to the "GXEdit4.exe" executable file.
4. Run it!
5. If errors are shown on startup and/or other scenarios, right-click on the shortcut, select "Properties" then go to the "Compatibility" tab and check the "Run this program as an administrator" checkbox.
6. In the settings window that appears when you click on the menu item "Options->Program setup...", select the correct MIDI ports where you have connected your GX-700 to.
7. You should be able to use Sound Station correctly now, if not, check your cables and MIDI setup settings, like the "Device ID" and the "MIDI Channel". These settings must both match the ones in your GX-700.

Known issues:

• Requesting a bank is slower than it should be.
• Sometimes the program shows the device status as not ready and keeps it like that after cancelling a request.
• The interface layout looks weird on non-standard Windows DPI settings, any other than 96 DPI.
• The "Receive" button doesn't work properly.
• Issues with the help system. (see below)

Bugs and issues are being investigated.

Additional information concerning the help system:

Windows Vista and Windows 7 don't natively support legacy help files like the one included with this software. But there is an update for Vista/7 that installs the required files to handle this old help system. You can download this Windows update here.

Also even after installing this update you will need to open the GXEdit.hlp file manually by double clicking on it and allowing it to run for the first time. After that you will be able to use the help system flawlessly from the application.

You'll notice the help file states that the version of this software is shareware and more stuff about the original trial version. This is because the help file hasn't been updated to remove these informations, please disregard the contents of the help file about it, current GX-700 Sound Station version is freeware.

Please, consider donating some money to support MIDIoz Software for the development of this software.