[A6] Jo!

Chris Pickett chris.pickett at mail.mcgill.ca
Wed Oct 8 01:21:10 PDT 2003


 > Not sure what you mean by this. The strawberry flutes patch is in my 
files

>though...
>
Yay!

Well that means you most likely have slightly different preset and user 
banks, unless you got the patch from code404 or Cyril's files.

>>2) Get list members to send in *all* of their half-decent or better
>>patches for inclusion in the library.
>>    
>>
>
>Yes. Well... L I S T M E M B E R S!!!
>
>Please send all your unique A6 sounds to me!!! :-))))))
>

How about -- if you plan on downloading Boele's hard work, you should 
plan on contributing your patches (if you have any)!

>>You've already done number three.  I imagine getting 1) and 2) done is
>>going to be a bit slow, but that's okay ... you've got something usable
>>at the moment and that's fantastic!
>>
>>I'll make copies of my preset and user banks and send them to you soon.
>>
>>If you could make a list of your Preset Bank 1, Preset Bank 2, and User
>>Bank default sounds, so that we can compare first to check if we have
>>identical copies, that would be great.
>>    
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>
>OK, I will do so.
>
>Also, is there any need for sysexfiles or midifiles yet?
>

Only if you want to stop the work, or if people are anxious to play with 
what you have done.  It depends on how long it takes to get a whole 
bunch of patches in.

I would suggest:

1) Wait until you feel that people aren't going to send you many more 
patches.  If you post every time somebody sends you something, it should 
encourage people.
2) Post version 1.0 of your libraries for download.
3) From that point on, periodically make requests for new patches on the 
list, and when you've acquired some new ones to release (maybe 20? I 
don't know), make an announcement.
  -- Incorporate the new patches into your existing libraries
  -- Also release them as a separate bank for people to play with 
(perhaps easier than finding the sound in a list).

Finally -- what about this problem:

If you have a sound library, alphabetically ordered, and you release it, 
people will start to write make MIDI files to use the instruments at 
those program numbers.
But, if you introduce a future update and you insert in alphabetical 
order, you will disrupt peoples MIDI files and some updating by most 
users will be required.  Is this something to worry about?  Or is it a 
minor detail?

>And i saw that I could not download from the yahoogroups anymore, due to
>traffic-limits reached :-))))
>  
>
Always a good sign!

Cheers,
Chris




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