Hi Margus, did you end up putting this program onto the web? Sounds
great!
Regards,
Ben.
> Hi,
>
> There is... now!
>
> At first, as an introduction I'm new to this group, my name is
> Margus, I just bought my Polysix a month ago and have fixed the
> battery and a couple of traces by now (thanks, Crow!). This is
> actually my second P6 as I was stupid enough to sell the first one
> some 15 years ago to get a DX7 - but hey! everyobody did the same!
>
> To the point. As I found (and still find) it painful to manage the
> patches on a midiless P6 I created a basic editor/librarian for
this.
> The thing eats a .wav file, disassembles it into a P6 memory dump,
> lets you change individual parameters and finally assembles them
into
> a .wav again which you can feed back to a P6. Right now it is in
> a 'proof-of-concept' stage with no bells nor whistles but even as
> that it serves two purposes:
>
> First, educational. The precision of the patch charts is weak, to
be
> polite. Operating the knobs is not suited for fine-tuning a
> parameter, and sometimes a slight change in a parameter value
affects
> the sound a lot. It is not that easy to recreate exactly the same
> sound on another machine. Internally a parameter value can vary
from
> 0 to 255, so scaling it down to 0..10 on the front panel creates a
> problem. The editor lets you see the real values, tweak and fine-
tune
> them and experiment with minor changes.
>
> Second, practical. The program enables you to copy/paste a patch
> inside a bank and between banks. You can even move a patch around
> between different dumps (.wavs) as well, or create a library of
dumps
> (eg. in Excel). One dump (32 patches) is actually very small - just
> 512 bytes. So you can create the different soundsets you need
without
> recreating them by hand on the panel.
>
> If this sounds interesting let me know here (or drop me an email)
and
> I'll make it available for download somehow.
>
> Regards (and sorry for the long posting),
> Margus