Emu XL-7 & MP-7 User's Group

Over the past 2 days I have been teaching myself to use some of the features of Royce's E-Mu Librarian and have been finding it extremely useful so far in  terms of easily and conveniently (1) previewing banks of User and Factory Presets, (2) labeling and annotating the presets (individually and en masse) and (3a) finding my original and tweaked presets from among banks of mixed (factory, original, and tweaked) presets, (3b) labeling reminders of what I was doing in series of test & development presets, and (3c) saving just my own, non-duplicate presets from different banks in a *.LIB [Library] of unique presets.

Even at this early stage in my use of E-Mu Lib, it has been well worth the time spent learning to use it. 

I think I avoided exploring it before now because the GUI had too many buttons visible all at once for me to process. However, in two days I have really come to understand and appreciate how all of the tasks are all in one place--no massive menu hierarchies to get lost in!!!!!!

I have taken screen shots of some processes I used with the intent of sharing those as a step-by-step visual explanation in case it would help others use the tool.  BTW, I prefer to call it a librarian as opposed to an editor, only because I think of editors as patch/preset editors.  E-Mu Lib does allow (brilliantly, IMO) the editing of preset banks.

While various preset/patch editors can be used as bank editors (as opposed to patch editors), having used a number, I really appreciate Royce's software for managing, organizing, pruning, isolating, and re-organizing presets and banks of presets. The learning curve was not too bad once I decided to start using it and the all-on-one-page GUI makes tasks easy to find and duplicate.

Perhaps others will use it and can create small *.LIB files of presets they are willing to share.

Thanks, Royce!!

Steve

PIX:  7 original/tweaked presets using the CMPSR ROM [non-factory presets] pulled from 4 banks of User presets.1