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Joel wrote:

>From: joel <mango@...>

>Cool.
>Though i've never used .mid to transfer patches to my synth,
>always use the "standard" synth protocol (in the an1x's case: .an1)
>But perhaps some time you could explain it. :)
>I would be afraid to mess up or even lose my own patches, (yes i know, i
>should
>make a backup first i guess, haven't done that so far though.. so that's
>going to
>be a first time too, for the an1x at least), but besides that, i thought
>.mid was
>generally meant to be used only as songs for midisequencer programs or
>hardwarez
>midisequencers.
>

Hi Joel,

So to say,if you have found "the ultimate" voice and you like to share it
with others
in the form of **.an1,then you have to send a whole bank with one ultimate and
127 initvoices total 220Kb.The simple form_.MID file or_.SysEx file is in
that case very
useful,mostly less in bytes.My experience is that on the WWW.you can find
lots of synth-
patches imbedded in banks in all kinds of formats due to the different editors
and that for PC and Mac.So I prefer in that case the universal .MID form.
BUT in this case I agree with you because there is the beautiful Yamaha
AN1xEdit 1.02
for free,for PC and Mac with saved bankdata interchangeable!Double klick on
the patch-
name sends this patch to both editmemory's,computer and synth.Select a
patch and <send>,
you overwrite the patch in the synth with the same number.As you already
should know.
Of course you can save single patchdata without a number as sysexfile in a
homemade lib.
I find all this not so important as the fact that we can share our work on
the AN1x.
So let's do that.

Regards,Joop