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--- In AN1x-list@yahoogroups.com, Burnsie <jburns@...> wrote:
>
> Is there an easy way to go through all the patches in the various 
> available libraries and sort them as you go?  I know I'll have to click 
> through each library but when it comes to pulling patches out and 
> putting them in  "keys", "organ", "leads" libraries it seems laborious 
> at best.  A lot of opening and closing.  Currently I open the file I 
> want to put into and then in library open the one "all mixed up" and 
> then I drag and drop.  Wish I could have a few windows open at once.

I think I understand your problem as wanting to go in to a "mixed up"
library and drag patches from that into multiple "cleaned up" files.

You can't do that with the Expert Editor. I haven't tried to do this
with AN1x Edit but I doubt it can be done there either.

Rather you must do the opposite:

Open up each file and drag out patches from ONE category into a new
library. Then you must repat that process for each category you want
to isolate; if you had 10 categories you would have to open all the
mixed up files 10 times. 

I know that seems tedious if you have dozens of files already but I
remember the days before using computers when this was even
worse...you had to do it on the synthesizer itself, importing patch by
patch into a bank and then saving a bank. Yuck.

My advice is to keep very careful records of what you're doing and do
it in small chunks. I know that amongst the patches I've gathered over
the net there are lots of "repeats" where the same patch can be found
in multiple files. When you are done archive the "mixed up" files in a
directory away from your new libraries so you don't be tempted to
waste time in the future scrolling through them looking for patches.

One gotcha with categories is that the Motif won't read and display
the category of the PLG board patches (neither the 256 presets nor the
128 user patches) only the categories of the patches in the PLG-PRE
and PLG-USR banks (which use a PLG patch as the lone element in a
Motif patch). You might want to set your libraries up by Motif
categories as there are fewer of these than AN categories, putting
multiple AN categories into one Motif category.

Brian