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Hello folks.  I have really appreciated many of the helpful hints I have 
read along the way.  It's nice to see such an active list with so many 
people in the know.

Is there an easy way to go through all the patches in the various 
available libraries and sort them as you go?  I know I'll have to click 
through each library but when it comes to pulling patches out and 
putting them in  "keys", "organ", "leads" libraries it seems laborious 
at best.  A lot of opening and closing.  Currently I open the file I 
want to put into and then in library open the one "all mixed up" and 
then I drag and drop.  Wish I could have a few windows open at once.

Ideas?

Thank you,

John

Hello John !
there is a trick to sort your voices by type on the synth itself , for 
example all "Lead" voices together, all "Strings" ... if it is what you 
want to do finally. See the web page "AN1X tricks" .
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J.F.

Burnsie a \ufffdcrit :

>Hello folks.  I have really appreciated many of the helpful hints I have 
>read along the way.  It's nice to see such an active list with so many 
>people in the know.
>
>Is there an easy way to go through all the patches in the various 
>available libraries and sort them as you go?  I know I'll have to click 
>through each library but when it comes to pulling patches out and 
>putting them in  "keys", "organ", "leads" libraries it seems laborious 
>at best.  A lot of opening and closing.  Currently I open the file I 
>want to put into and then in library open the one "all mixed up" and 
>then I drag and drop.  Wish I could have a few windows open at once.
>
>Ideas?
>
>Thank you,
>
>John
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--- In AN1x-list@yahoogroups.com, Jeff <jf.serviere@...> wrote:
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> Hello John !
> there is a trick to sort your voices by type on the synth itself , for 
> example all "Lead" voices together, all "Strings" ... if it is what you 
> want to do finally. See the web page "AN1X tricks" .

I'm not certain, but I think Jeff is refering to the FAQ?

On Page 100 of the AN1x Owner's Manual is the procedure to recall the Factory Settings. 
Option 4 will sort the Factory Voices by category:

Turn OFF the power.

Press and hold the [7], [8] and [9] buttons down simultaneously while turning ON the 
power.

Continue to hold the buttons down until a dialog box appears on the screen displaying, 
'Factory Set? [1---9]'.

Release the [7], [8] and [9] buttons and choose one of the following resets by pressing the 
corresponding button:
Button [1]: Loads Voices 1-64.
Button [2]: Loads Voices 65-128.
Button [3]: Loads all 128 Voices.
Button [4]: Loads all Voices sorted by Voice Category.
Button [5]: Loads User Patterns 1-64.
Button [6]: Loads User Patterns 65-128.
Button [7]: Loads all User Patterns.
Button [8]: Loads system data.
Button [9]: Loads all Voices, User Patterns and system data (full factory reset).

Press the [YES/ENTER] button. The AN1X will execute the Initialization procedure and 
return to 'Play mode'.


but this only works for the Factory Voices, not User Voices :-/

Jon

--- In AN1x-list@yahoogroups.com, Burnsie <jburns@...> wrote:
>
> Is there an easy way to go through all the patches in the various 
> available libraries and sort them as you go?  I know I'll have to click 
> through each library but when it comes to pulling patches out and 
> putting them in  "keys", "organ", "leads" libraries it seems laborious 
> at best.  A lot of opening and closing.  Currently I open the file I 
> want to put into and then in library open the one "all mixed up" and 
> then I drag and drop.  Wish I could have a few windows open at once.

I think I understand your problem as wanting to go in to a "mixed up"
library and drag patches from that into multiple "cleaned up" files.

You can't do that with the Expert Editor. I haven't tried to do this
with AN1x Edit but I doubt it can be done there either.

Rather you must do the opposite:

Open up each file and drag out patches from ONE category into a new
library. Then you must repat that process for each category you want
to isolate; if you had 10 categories you would have to open all the
mixed up files 10 times. 

I know that seems tedious if you have dozens of files already but I
remember the days before using computers when this was even
worse...you had to do it on the synthesizer itself, importing patch by
patch into a bank and then saving a bank. Yuck.

My advice is to keep very careful records of what you're doing and do
it in small chunks. I know that amongst the patches I've gathered over
the net there are lots of "repeats" where the same patch can be found
in multiple files. When you are done archive the "mixed up" files in a
directory away from your new libraries so you don't be tempted to
waste time in the future scrolling through them looking for patches.

One gotcha with categories is that the Motif won't read and display
the category of the PLG board patches (neither the 256 presets nor the
128 user patches) only the categories of the patches in the PLG-PRE
and PLG-USR banks (which use a PLG patch as the lone element in a
Motif patch). You might want to set your libraries up by Motif
categories as there are fewer of these than AN categories, putting
multiple AN categories into one Motif category.

Brian