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Online patch database seems a good idea.Hope it includes sw1000xg patches too.
Oh if u r not a musician an u have a an1x ,what do u do then?im just curious.Im not much of a musician but I like messin with interesting sounds,and if its any good,I have a go of producing somthing.How ever u can listen to my latest track as an mp3 on line.Its called 'Tranzotika'. go to
http://stage.vitaminic.co.uk/dmanx

Regards 
DMANX

Regards Dmanx.
> 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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