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Ed Edwards wrote:
> Shayne,
[...]
>     Please go for it.  I know exactly the hassle you're talking about...
> you're looking for "that sound" but there are lots of patch banks available,
> and you have to load and listen to each sound to see if you can find that
> 'right one'.

   Yes, exactly..  They way they are organized now (by user) really 
doesn't lend itself to finding anything quickly..  You have to download 
each user's sounds then go through all of them..  If you know you're 
looking for a "brass-type" sound, this way you could search through all 
sounds classified as brass and hopefully atleast get close in a 
reasonable amount of time.

   The other problem I have is in only being able to have 128 patches at 
a time in my an1x, there are sounds I remember using and liking that 
I've forgotten where they are (like 'Illusion' and 'Church Bell').  This 
way you could look the sound up by name and find it.

   As you said classifications will be a bit tough, but we can take the 
defaults to start with and go from there.  We could also allow a sound 
to fall under multiple categories if it lends itself to that.

> I'm not quite sure of how to break the individual patches out
> of the banks and group them together outside of AN1x Edit.

   Yeah, that was my thought..  Pull up the banks in an1x edit and save 
them out as .an1 files.  Tedious, but it would only have to be done 
once.  Maybe if Gary is still around he could write a quick utility to 
extract individual .an1 files from a sound bank?

Shayne