[A6] Who's getting busy with their Andromeda

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on 17-09-2003 11:44, Chris Pickett at chris.pickett at mail.mcgill.ca wrote:

> That would be fantastic!
> 
> I don't know how much work it takes, but it would be great if we could
> sort them:
> 
> 1) by name
> 2) by author / original location (?)
> 3) by sound (bass, strings, etc.)

Not sure what you want here.

The A6 has two preset banks, and one userbank.

So I can build *banks* for 127 sounds each. And yes, with the help of
SoundDiver I can categorize those banks by name, author, sound etc.

But what do you want me to do exactly? Sort out the 5 banks plus 3
factorybanks and build 8 new banks sorted by the list above?
In that case, number two already exists (:-)), and number three would be
arguable. Who's gonna decide which sound belongs to which category and who's
gonna decide which categories we are gonna use in the first place?
Definately not me alone :-)))
> 
> To start, why not take the 5 banks from Alesis' website plus the 1 user
> bank and 2 preset banks in your own machine.  Then let's get people to
> send you their preset banks -- there's subtle differences between them
> depending on when your machine was manufactured and we wanna make sure
> we get everything (especially my Strawberry Flutes patch . . . )

Not sure about the above. I'de rather speak in terms of sounds first. Are
there different sounding A6's? I was not aware of that! I'de rather build
one version of each set, otherwise it would become a lifetime's job... :-)
> 
> If you get that far, that's already quite impressive, and from there if
> you want to pass the torch on to someone else for managing the
> user-created patches then you can.

Personally, I think the big fun would be building usersoundsets though. The
existing banks are good as they are and intended as they are by their
builders, right?
But then again, I am open for anything.

Boele