[sdiy] Generic preset storage / converting presets between synths

[Dave Magnuson]

I recommend that you check out SoundDiver.  Many synths are already
included in their library, and you can write your own custom "interfaces"
for gear if you know how the synth responds to sysex, etc.  I haven't ever
tried it, but every one who uses it seems to love it.  

Dave Magnuson





At 09:28 AM 5/26/03 -0600, Kenneth Martinez wrote:
>
>Those who believe presets are the bane of creative synthesis - please 
>avert your eyes (and avoid a flame war)...
>
>Here's my wish: for my synths with preset storage and the ability to 
>dump & load presets via midi sysex, I'd like to be able to feed the 
>sysex of a synth into a software program which can (1) display the sound 
>parameters in a meaningful form, and (2) convert the sound into the 
>sysex format of any of my other presets synths.  That's not too much to 
>ask, is it? ;-)
>
>Does anyone know of any existing software, commercial or otherwise, 
>which can do this?
>
>I don't feel the need to do this a lot, but there are times when I'd 
>like to know the actual settings of a preset... after all, the knobs 
>don't move themselves when I switch to another preset.  Many preset 
>synths don't show the values, you have to find them again by turning 
>each knob (e.g. Prophet 5, Nord Lead); and for those modern synths with 
>LCDs which do show the actual values (e.g. Andromeda, Virus), I'd still 
>have to page around its menus until I saw all the values.
>
>If I have one, I can use a free or commercial sysex librarian / editor 
>program to view the parameters, but those are in the "native tongue" of 
>each synth (typically, arbitrary units from 0 - 127).  If I want to make 
>a very similar sound on another of my synths (hardware or software), 
>I'll probably still spend a fair amount of time converting it to the 
>other synth's format by adjusting parameters and listening.
>
>So again - I want software that can display meaningful values for the 
>parameters (filter envelope amount = 1/2 octave, envelope 1 attack = 
>50ms, etc) and convert between these values and a given synth's sysex 
>(as much as possible - resolution probably isn't good enough to get 
>envelope attack to exactly 50ms on each and every synth, and envelope 
>shapes vary between synths, etc).
>
>I figure if I've thought it would be useful, someone else has probably 
>already done it at least once ;-)  Anybody know of anything like this?


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