Dave Smith Instruments SYNTHESIZERS

I've read the horror stories about issues with the SoundTower editor, but I've been using it fine until today.

Today is the day that it refused to reload the evl file that contained all my patches. I backed it up yesterday before starting to work with some downloaded patches. I suspect it's beyond recovery and I've just lost six months of patch development.

I have an open support ticket with ST but thought I'd see if anyone with similar trouble was able to recover their patch banks.

To say I'm pissed is obvious, what good is the software if the backups you make aren't safe? Should I be saving banks in ebp files as well as the evl file? Should I be making sysex dumps as a safety against ST bugs? Ugh...

Brian