Everest is a shareware Windows 95/98/NT program for editing the Kurzweil MA/1 synthesizer, currently a part of the Turtle Beach Pinnacle and AVM Apex semi-pro audio cards.  It is constantly evolving, and this feature list constantly gets longer!
 
   

Current Features 

• Works with AVM Technology Apex and Turtle Beach Pinnacle!
• Layout
• Intuitive "mixer" layout of most of the controls for editing a program!
• Visually browse or edit all layers simultaneously!
• Fast access to all of the parameters!
• Real-time feel controls!
• Hierarchical modulator editor!
• Virtual Keyboard monitors all notes being played!
• Bank Editor, lets you create custom banks from existing banks!
• Stereo Layers, Keymaps and Samples!
• Frequency Spectrum tool to find original note!
• Use with your favorite Wave Editor!
• Wizards!
• SampleStore creates complete programs from .WAV files!
• Drum Kit Wizard for fast importing of drum wave data!
• Tonal Program Wizard makes multisample mapping virtually automatic!
• Microtuning Wizard lets you set up exotic (non equal) temperaments!
• Works with lots of existing formats!
• Native support for *.pbf (Turtle Beach's Pinnacle Bank File format)
• Everest MA-1 bank format (.emb) - embedded and lossless-compressed samples!
• Imports *.sf2 files (SoundFont2  compatibility) (please read notes below)!
• Imports *.krz files (Kurzweil K2000 format)  (please read notes below)!
• Loads and Saves MIDI Sysex banks.
• Imports *.apex (AVM Sample Studio format) (based on beta 2 version)
• Hardware limitation workarounds!!
• Automatic conversion to 15 bits to circumvent firmware distortion bug on Pinnacle. (When TB fixes the problem, you can just turn off the mode and be happy!)
• Sample polyphony problem fixed for programs that are percussive, ignoring note off!
• Other firmware bugs are automatically fixed!

• Better keymap editing
• Better importing of .sf2 and .krz