Patch Distribution and the future of Emagic..

[chinard]

Howdy peeps!

Ive been plowing through the various archives of Virus Patches on the access site and a few others and i have noticed that the following 3 formats seem dominant.

- Standard Midi file (with sysex)
- .SYX sysex dump
- .LIB SoundDiver file

Now since Access makes that handy "Free" version on their website i've been seeing quite a few people using the SoundDiver format, and i cant complain about the results...

Now here's where i'm getting concerned.
As you know a couple of months ago Apple bought Emagic OUTRIGHT and proceeded to sell "Apple" brand Logic Audio and Logic express..
...But what happened to SoundDiver?

Alas, I have heard no news about any continued support or development for SoundDiver so where are users to go for the latest supported editor/librarian.

Just wondering what would be the next step for distribution of patches once SoundDiver eventually drops of the face of the planet.
MIDI and Sysex are universal, but you get no control of where the pathces go.
There are other utilities such as MidiQuest XL but they are not freely available like the "Bundle" version of SoundDiver Access supplies on their website.