[A6] Who's getting busy with their Andromeda

[Chris Pickett]

>I think less. Let's not make it to difficult, beside one can argue about the
>difference between lot's of these ones you come up with. I mean, WHAT is,
>for instance, the difference between a warm sounding bright pad and a bright
>sounding warm pad? :-)))))
>
>I'de rather see it more like:
>Bass
>String
>Brass
>Drums
>Acoustic
>Keyboard
>Sequence
>Arpeggiator
>FX
>Pad
>Organ
>Vocal
>Misc.
>
Yes, that's what I meant.  I was also going to make exactly the same 
comment ... that bigger categories are better for now (we can always 
sub-categorize later).  You could separate "Acoustic" into "Plucked" 
(e.g. guitar, harp), "Struck" (vibes, xylophone, bells) and "Wind".  I 
think it's important that the patches in a given category share 
relatively similar settings, for educational purposes (which is the 
primary point of this exercise -- to get us all understanding and making 
patches).

About voting -- I think we should worry about any "voting" or selection 
process until after we've got all the patches we can get our hands on.  
Also, depending on the kind of music you want to make, there may be 
patches you like that other people don't like -- for me, there are lots 
of "trancey" presets on the A6 that I don't care for that many other 
people would want -- and what I find to be a cheesy brass patch somebody 
else may be totally in love with.  Don't worry about condensing the 
extracted and sorted patches into banks for now either.

With the 8 existing Alesis banks, you already have (127 * 8) patches to 
categorize (with ~50 redundancies?); when that's done we can see about 
adding more to your lists.

If you can maintain them as individual SysEx patch files (2 kb each), I 
think that is easiest for everyone (although additional formats are good 
too).

Keep it simple for now!  IMHO, the 8 Alesis banks are worth trawling 
through because there *are* quite a few good patches in there.

Cheers,
Chris