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oh, and I'm pretty good with photoshop too.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Shayne Hardesty 
  To: AN1x-list@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 11:29 PM
  Subject: [AN1x] Online patch database ideas..


     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


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