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Hi Bastiaan,

On Mon Feb 20 2012, Bastiaan Van de werk <vandewerk@...> wrote:
> Thanks for the tip. It would be nice though to 
> be able to manage patches a bit more elegantly... I don't care much for editing on a computer (I'm quite comfortable on the An1x myself) but it would be nice to be able
> to have a librarian of sorts allowing me to send / receive patches to / from specific locations so I can assemble banks of my favorite sounds.
> 
> I have OSX Lion but a Win7 Partition on my iMac as well - it would suck to have to use an old machine just to upload banks of patches though....
> 
> OSX seems out of the question though... :(
> 
> Any tips?
> 
> 

As has been mentioned a couple of times on this list before (so it's
somewhere searchable among the archives):

Go virtual.

Use whatever takes your fancy:
- virtualbox
- virtualpc
- vmware player
- vmware workstation
- or any of the other (free) solutions.

Install an old XP/Windows 2000 32 bits environment, and you're good to
go to run an1xedit from a virtual environment. No need to whip out
another bootable partition or old machine. Just make sure you have the
proper usb/midi support going, and you could be using an1x edit as a
patch librarian.

I myself am still working (well, it's been on hold since 2006) as a
private effort on an implementation for jsynthlib to throw around patches 
and all. So don't count on that one getting finished soon :D

The afforementioned an factory
(http://www.xfactory-librarians.co.uk/products.html) seems to be a much
used product among the list members.

I've found this product as well:
http://www.squest.com/Windows/MidiQuestXL/MidiQuest-XLFeatures.html
which supports the An1x (haven't used this, not sure whether someone
else on the list has).

My preference would be to whip out a virtualbox with an old XP image
(reusing some old license found on OEM computers) and hit the librarian
side of things with it.

Good luck!

Gerald