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GOOD NEWS:

Dave Polich found an ANP file of the Regenerator patches and was 
kind enough to email them to me.  

Of course, the Expert Editor for the PLG150 doesn't load ANP files, 
only AN1 and ANS files.  No sweat.  I downloaded the AN1Edit program 
that is available in this forum's files section, loaded the ANP file 
and saved it as an AN1 file. This AN1 file loaded into my Expert 
Editor without a hitch and I am now happily editing, moving and 
swapping individual Regenerator files and combining them with my own 
voices as well as voices available on this forum.  Life is good

I emailed the AN1 file back to David Polich.  I am not certain if he 
is still associated with Keyfax, but I have also emailed them asking 
them if they want it.  If anybody else had the same problem as me, 
now is probably a good time to email Keyfax asking for the AN1 file. 
(Sharing it directly would certainly violate their copyright)


--- In AN1x-list@yahoogroups.com, "Jon" <jondl_2000@...> wrote:
>
> --- In AN1x-list@yahoogroups.com, "okiikahuna" <okiikahuna@> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for your reply, Jon.
> 
> Thanks for taking the time to flesh out the problem description.
> 
> > 
> > Sorry if I did not explain myself well. I was trying to be 
brief. I 
> > will now give you a fuller explanation  Please forgive the 
length of 
> > this post:
> > 
> > The problem is that without an AN1 format file I cannot edit the 
> > patches, move them to different locations in the internal board 
> > memory or even combine them with my own patches or the excellent 
> > patches I have discovered on this forum.  Here's why:
> > 
> > 1.  The only way to edit or move voices around in the internal 
board 
> > memory is using the Expert Editor.  This cannot be done from the 
PLG 
> > board's host keyboard.  All you can do is load the entire W2b 
bulk 
> > file and save an entire W2B bulk file, which will, of course be 
> > unchanged unless edited in some way.
> > 
> > 1.  The only way to get a voice or group of voices into the 
Expert 
> > Editor is with a AN1 file.  It will not load W2B files.  The PLG 
> > cannot transmit data to the Expert Editor or anything else.  It 
can 
> > only receive date transmitted to it by the Expert Editor. Data 
goes 
> > only one way: from Expert Editor to the board.
> > 
> > 3.  The Regenerator sound library comes only with the W2B files 
for 
> > bulk loading into the board.  I was informed that Dave Polich 
lost 
> > his AN1 files when upgrading from OS9 to OSX.  Because this 
> > particular upgrade caused a fair amount of grief to many of us, I
> > light heartedly referred to it as a "debacle."  Sorry if you 
didn't 
> > appreciate the intended humor.
> 
> I didn't upgrade my old Mac from OS 9 to OS X in place, added a 
2nd hard drive, so I had a 
> dual boot system with none of these implied transition problems. 
My new Mac came with 
> OS X preinstalled ;-) Don't know what his issues were with the 
upgrade...you know what 
> they say: back-up, back-up, back-up.
> 
> > 
> > End result: I've got some brilliantly programmed board voices in 
> > Regenerator that I cannot edit or combine with my own sounds.  
This 
> > frustrates me. so I was seeking advice on this list as to how I 
> > could convert the W2B files into AN1 files.  You have already 
save 
> > me a large Ebay expenditure by eliminating the idea of using an 
AN1X
> > to convert the files.  Thanks.  Your other idea, of loading into 
the 
> > PLG and transmitting to the AN Editor, won't work because PLGs 
don't 
> > transmit data, only receive.
> 
> Yes, you are correct - PLGs don't transmit SysEx data. As often as 
this has been discussed, 
> you'd think I'd have remembered by now...apologies.
> 
> > 
> > Remember, I am talking about the actual board voices that live 
on 
> > the PLG, not the limited tweaks you can do on the host keyboards 
> > voices that use the PLG voices.
> 
> I did a few searches on Google and found a number of threads 
releated to the Regeneraotr 
> .anp file. The author - Dave Polich - had at one point been 
providing the .anp file 
> excluded from the .zip archive on request (back in 2004 it seems.) 
If he no longer has his 
> data files, have you approached him (or Keyfax) for permission to 
contact any of the other 
> Regenerator users to acquire the missing file? Obviously he 
wouldn't want his data file 
> being made available for distribution in a public forum such as 
this.
> 
> 
> > 
> > So, is there any way to do this conversion?  
> 
> No. :-( Unless you consider resampling the sounds and reusing them 
in another hw/sw 
> sampler.
> 
> regards,
> 
> Jon
>