[A6] loading sysex patch banks

[Chris Pickett]

analoguediehard at att.net wrote:

>>>Also, where can I get the Strawberry Flutes patch?  I thought it was 
>>>one of the defaults, but it's not.
>>>      
>>>
>>This wouldn't be a problem, except that the patches I'm looking for seem 
>>to come from the default User Bank of early A6's.  Does anybody have an 
>>early A6, and also happen to have a backup of the default user bank?  I 
>>think this would resolve things.  It seems like they got rid of some of 
>>the best presets . . .
>>    
>>
>
>Yeah, I have a beta unit and I saved the early banks.  Gimme a couple of days to
>find it in my archives and ship it to Justin.
>
great!  thanks a lot.  i know Abe was looking for the strawberry flutes 
patch too (just search for "strawberry flutes andromeda" in google and 
you'll see what I mean.

>
>Be warned that Alesis changed some filter stuff in early beta OS's.  Some of my
>patches sounded way different during beta testing, so it's possible that some of
>the patches in the early preset banks won't sound right.  Once the A6 was
>released, there was zero problems with patch legacy from OS to OS.
>
well, it'll still be interesting to see what's there.

so ... does anybody have the non-beta user preset banks?  i have presets 
1 and 2, and mix 1, but not the user banks, from probably the first 
batch of non-betas, and i can send them to justin as well.  they are 
from a machine with OS 130.83, one of the earliest non-beta OSes, I 
believe.  i'm not talking about the stuff downloadable from Alesis' 
website, of course.

i know most of you are probably thinking, "the presets are so crappy, 
who cares?", but i want to be able to play this thing properly before i 
start making patches, and so having all the presets i can really helps.  
besides, a few of them are really not too bad, and others make good 
starting points.

by the way ... does anybody actually use the mix banks?  are they an 
overlooked feature?  it seems like they could be a lot of fun in a live 
situation.

cheers,
chris