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Hi group.. I've been lurking here as an AN1x owner but not much of a
musician for a couple of years now. I've downloaded and enjoyed
countless patches you guys have worked on, but since I've never really
jumped into synth programming I'm not able to contribute much of
anything back. BUT, I do online website database integration work for a
living, and I think the huge collection of GREAT patches we have in the
yahoo files section is just begging to be organized.. I'm willing to do
all of the programming to put it together. In my mind you would upload
an individual patch, categorize it based on type of sound (pad, bass,
percussion, sfx, etc) and we would store all of the info in a database
so you can search by sound name, sound category, most popular sounds,
creation/upload date, creator, etc. This would solve a need ∗I∗ have
(finding certain patches I've lost along the way), and I think would
make patch sharing and finding much easier.

So I guess basically I'm wondering if you guys are interested in
taking this approach, and if anyone has any further ideas or thoughts?
To begin with I could host it on my home server on a cable modem, but my
upstream bandwidth is capped off at 400k so it wouldn't take much to
overwhelm it. If it works we could either hope someone could donate a
place to host it, or take collections for a cheap webhosting provider
(you can find tons of them online for about $10USD per month).

Let me know what you guys think. Mostly I'm thinking outloud here..
Heck, there's really no point in limiting it to the AN1x, I could
abstract the engine to accept patches for any platform. I could
probably get a rough working version in a weekend of
marathon-beer-fueled coding. Once it is working I'll need some
volunteers to take the existing yahoo groups sounds, break them out of
the zip files and directories, and upload and categorize them one by one
making sure to give the original creator credit (so that we'll be able
to search for patches by a given creator). I'd also need a volunteer or
two who is good with photoshop to do some graphics, as I'm horrible with
that stuff.

Shayne