[A6] Soundbanks etc.

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on 29-09-2003 10:19, Chris Pickett at chris.pickett at mail.mcgill.ca wrote:

> 1) Locate all the copies of the preset sound banks -- these have some
> different patches depending on when you purchased your A6, and a few of
> them are worth having (e.g. my sought-after strawberry flutes patch).
> These are gonna have to come from list members.  I'll send you my preset
> banks and you can tell me if you already have all of those sounds.  It
> might be worthwhile posting lists of patches in the preset banks so that
> list members can check before uploading.

Yes, I will create a list of all the sounds I have now, including the
category-choice. It would be nice if people check themselves before they
send anything, because that is a VERY timeconsuming thing...
> 
> 2) Get list members to send in *all* of their half-decent or better
> patches for inclusion in the library.

Right! PEOPLE???!!!!! :-))))

Onde can send patches to:

bgerkes at synthmusic.com. Please include a description (name or names of the
sound or sounds, plus their desired category. You may send me sysex,
midifile or sounddiver libraries.
> 
> 3) Take Cyril's patch library and eliminate doubles -- can you do a
> compare (i.e. a "diff") on a patch-by-patch basis?  This would be the
> easiest way to eliminate doubles.

Yes, I already mailed with him. I'll go through it. It's just too bad I
couldn't start this thing with his file in the first place. That could have
saved a lot of time.
> 
> Then ... we wait until the patch influx has slowed down to only the new
> patches, and start distributing / voting on your work.

OK.
> 
> I know this is a pretty anal approach, but I really think it's better to
> try and get *everything* -- and we can sort of then close the book on
> the A6's past history of patches and move forward.

I fully agree. I was just a bit concerned about the work it is gonna take to
add all those loose ends.

You know, like receiving a mail: " hey Boele, here is my contribution. I
made two sounds".

Then finding out after a one hour search a complete dump of the userbank,
where the man changed two souds, one without even changing the name, and the
other sound called "Matrixstrings" in stead of the original "Matrixstring"
:-)))

So in short: ALWAYS mention in which slots the new sounds are when sending
me a complete bank. ALWAYS mention the names of every new sound and ALWAYS
give the category of the new sounds sended in.

Yours librarian-building,

Boele