Dave Smith Instruments SYNTHESIZERS

My waldorf XTk allows this. I'm surprised the polyevolver doesn't do it
too. Because as far as "musician" editing goes, if you use multi mode,
that's where most of your fine tuning edits are going to happen as a
track comes together... I'm also surprised this is the first complaint
anyone has had about it.

It's a really cool feature, though can get more than a little confusing
if you're not careful. The XTk has 8 patch memory buffers, storing the
last 8 edited patches (because you can have 8 channels in multi mode,
and edit patches on any or all of them! and an edit isn't thrown out
until you go to edit a new patch and the changed patch buffers are all
full - so in single mode, where if you're auditioning patches and
tweaking them to see what you can see, it'll remember up to the last 8
patches you edited!)  But it works pretty simply and seamlessly - You
make up your multi patch, you tweak away, then if you want to, you can
save multis and individual modified patches one by one from the save
menu.


Now, a really cool feature for the polyevolver, that the XTk doesn't
have, would be a patch "save as" function from inside a multi, where you
can save a single patch you just tweaked to a *new* patch location, and
the multi will automatically link to the edited & saved version of the
patch, not the original one. Basically, it would be just a simple little
macro. but would save a lot of button pushing and patch number
remembering for a very common thing that I've had to spend a lot of time
doing over and over.
:-)





On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 11:55:40 -0800, "Gene Schwartz"
<implode7@...> said:
> I take it from reading an earlier thread that some people, at least,
> consider the inability to save program parameters edited from combo mode
> to
> be an issue with the way that they want to work with the polyevolver.
> 
> Not only, of course, can't you save any of the changes, but, as soon as
> you
> hit save on the combo, all of them are lost...
> 
> I emailed Dave about this, and he said that I was the only one to have
> made
> this request!
> 
> Surely there must be others who would want to work this way (especially
> with
> the 4 sequencers), having the ability to return to the same combo with
> all
> of the sequences and sound parameters, at a later time. I want to be
> responsible myself for patch management, and I don't want one of the
> potentially most appealling features of this machine to be disabled for
> fear
> that I'll hurt myself...
> 
> In any case - please - I don't want to hear about how real musicians plan
> out all of their stuff in advance, or that you never use combo mode,
> etc....
> 
> If you think this to be something that should be added, maybe shoot Dave
> an
> email...if not, don't.
> 
> 
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> Yahoo! Groups Links
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