[A6] Soundbanks etc.

[Chris Pickett]

Leary, John wrote:

>Boele writes:
>  
>
>>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.
>>    
>>
>
>Which computer platform (and OS version) are you collecting these files on?
>I might be able to write some utilities to help with sorting/weeding.  I
>already have a very quick "double weeder" written in VB for Windows, and I
>could probably make a programming exercise out of porting it to Mac.  Since
>you're using SoundDiver I imagine you must be using one of those two
>platforms...
>  
>
that would be nice. 

>I might even be able to customize the double weeder to identify certain byte
>positions within the files as "less important" when comparing.  This would
>allow you to determine that a pair of patch files differs only in, say,
>output level; I imagine that would save you considerable time.  Of course I
>would need to know which bytes were less important!
>
i don't think anyone has documented the patch format, you could just try 
changing the volume of a few patches and see which bytes get affected.

later on, it would be interesting to write an "auto-classifier", but i'm 
not sure that it would be very useful except for non-experimental purposes.

chris