Turn patches into a bank on PC?

[vurt]

So i've made 200+ new patches recently using the fantastic editor, they're saved on my PC.. Isn't there some way i can make these into a bank(s), or do i have to upload each individual patch?

I have 500 patches saved in total now (300 are uploaded manually, one by one) but i want to rearrange all of it, which will be very tiresome if i have to upload each of the 500 patches from the editor and do the saving on the preenfm2.

Just a simple script where you put all patch files you want as a bank in a folder and execute a .bat file to merge it to a bank would be immensely helpful

[Xavier]

So i've made 200+ new patches recently using the fantastic editor, they're saved on my PC.. Isn't there some way i can make these into a bank(s), or do i have to upload each individual patch?

I have 500 patches saved in total now (300 are uploaded manually, one by one) but i want to rearrange all of it, which will be very tiresome if i have to upload each of the 500 patches from the editor and do the saving on the preenfm2.

Just a simple script where you put all patch files you want as a bank in a folder and execute a .bat file to merge it to a bank would be immensely helpful

Aouch...
Editor files and pfm bank are totally different. First one is a ziped xml text file, and the second one is a dump memory of the ARM memory.
Pfm can read bank but knows nothing about editor file, and vice-versa.

Let me think about a solution.... 

[vurt]

Aouch...
Editor files and pfm bank are totally different. First one is a ziped xml text file, and the second one is a dump memory of the ARM memory.
Pfm can read bank but knows nothing about editor file, and vice-versa.

Let me think about a solution.... 

Thanks, hope you can come up with something! Because I can hardly be alone in wanting to either upload a complete bank or sometimes wanting to rearrange your entire bank(s) so it all has to be uploaded again.
It can really turn into a mess after a while where the banks have no consistency (can be cool too, but makes it hard to find specific sounds)..

[Xavier]

There were several requests about bank management.
I also need one
Can be fun to do.

I think that could be done from the editor menu :

1. Create folder presets from preenfm bank
2. Create preenfm bank from folder presets

(2) requires a step to reorder the preset.

[vurt]

That would be amazing Having so much fun with this synth but the bank management is an issue for sure.

[Xavier]

Just for the update.
I'm working on that.

Hope to have something within a week.

[vurt]

Oh cool, you've made my day (well night actually)

[Xavier]

Hi vurt,
Can you give a try at the editor v 3.1.0 ?
https://github.com/Ixox/preenfm2Controller/releases

Please backup your bank and preset before using it.
I made a fair amount of tests but i woudln't like a bad bug to corrupt your bank

[vurt]

Hi vurt,
Can you give a try at the editor v 3.1.0 ?
https://github.com/Ixox/preenfm2Controller/releases

Please backup your bank and preset before using it.
I made a fair amount of tests but i woudln't like a bad bug to corrupt your bank

Yay! I will test it Thanks a lot!

[vurt]

Seems to work great! Really great interface with both renaming and drag and drop, love it, more than i could ever ask for

The only issue for us with eurorack version is that these new editors don't yet have CV in the destinations. But i checked, and its possible to create a bank and it won't mess up these settings for the patches, i also tried renaming and thus resaving the patch and it won't remove or mess up these destinations either, so that's good! I can switch to the older editor with the CV destinations when i create patches.

Man, the editor is really state of the art now, i mean i use Elektron's editors for Analog Four and Digitone and to me this editor is easier to use just more no-nonsense overall, really great work.
 

[Xavier]

Thanks for the feedback  and nice words

You're right, the modif i made for pfm2/pfm3 switch does not work well with the Eurorack version.
Will fix that.

[vurt]

Might have discovered a bug?

I've noticed that every time i make a bank i get 2 doubles. E.g now i have two patches called "Darkmess" even though i only have 1 file called that. If i remove the 1 filled called Darkmess, and try again; now i have no patch called that.

Before that i made a bank and i had two patches named "Death", so i removed the file called "Death" from the folder, tried again, same thing, no patch now exists with that name.

So it does not seem like i have named two patches the same thing.

I have used 128 files in the folder, no more, no less.

edit: yeah, if i remove "Darkmess", now i instead have two patches called "Dancechord", so it just took the next file in order and made it a double. 

[Xavier]

OK looks like a bug.

Do you see the double in the "drag&drop / reorganize" window ? or only in the bank ?
What position is the double ? the last one ?

Can you zip the folder and share it somewhere ?

[vurt]

I can email a .7z archive to you, give me the email adress
 

[Xavier]

OK got your bank. Not listened to it yet

Which one is doubled when you create a bank from the presets you sent me ?
Cannot see any double.

I Tried on PC.
Do you use a mac ? (will try on mac later).