I am picking up on your "now I've got to actually manipulate presets" comments.
As you may recall, over the years I have been very slowly working on a utility I call Syxer. The first functionality was to display data in bulk data dumps of E-Mu presets (*.syx files). There is mode where I can change the ROM IDs for all 128 presets in the file.
Syxer does not try to figure out arp, riff, or patchcord subsitutions. Those would be necessary to automate more useful conversions. However, in order to do this, substitution tables and algorithms need to be developed.
I am guessing that perhaps your manipulation of presets might lead to such a substitution table. If so, and if you are interested, let me know.
I mention this because I imagine that rather than hand changing banks of presets, once you figure out the changes that are needed, the whole process can be automated.
Right now the output file of a ROM ID Change is the exact same size as the original. I suppose I could develop something that would display the name of each preset in a bank, ask if the user wants to include that in an output file, and then build a bank with just those presets selected.
I have to warn you, though, this started out as a command line/chose a letter for each step you want to do, non-GUI based program. I compiled it to work in windows, but it is by no means a slick program. It does what I ask it to and I know how to build functionality into it.
Anyhow, let me know if you think it might be worthwhile to automate some of what you are doing by hand.
Steve
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Re: [xl7] Are Mo' Phatt and MP-7 ROMs identical?
2012-05-15 by Michael Brien Lane
That program sounds interesting, but what I meant by manipulating presets is really just moving the Phatt presets that are unique to that ROM into a contiguous block, hopefully it will come out to a full bank. I won’t need to do any actual editing of the patches, as E-mu already has a conversion of the Phatt presets for the MP-7 ROM where all of that stuff has already been done. I worked it out on paper several months ago, but of course now that I’m writing about it, I can’t seem to find my list. Sigh.
On May 14, 2012, at 12:21 PM, steve_the_composer wrote: