Xpantastic!

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 7:45 PM, John Pallister <john@...> wrote:
> Perhaps the patches could be "recorded" by passing the
> Atari->Xpander MIDI through a laptop running MIDI-OX. Then
> the SysEx could be logged and the patches pulled out.

Once the patches are sent to the Xpander from the Atari, they can just
be dumped individually, or as a bank.
No need to use anything in between.

> But it still needs someone (i.e. PeWe) to methodically
> transfer each patch, and type up the patch names... Would
> the promise of the undying gratitude of the Xpander
> community be enough to convince him/her to take on this
> Herculean task? ;)
>
Adding Patch names to an XPander (or any other patch format) can
easily be written to each patch in an automated fashion, once the
names are in a simple text file.


I do remember that when Matrix 6/6R patches (which do have patch
names) are sent to an Matrix 1000, then read back, the patch names are
garbled.
This is odd because the two synths have the same patch format, and
there *is* room in the Matrix 1000 patch for a patch name, even though
there is no
display capable of showing the patch name. The first 200 patches in
the Matrix 1000 are in ram, the other 800 are in rom, and can be
copied to the
first 200 locations to be edited.