User Manual

SOUNDS AND PATCHES
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Saving device settings as patches on disk
Even though the device settings are stored with the song, you may want to save any settings you have made for a de-
vice as a separate patch file. This allows you to use the patch in other songs, and lets you try out other patches in your
song without the risk of losing your original sound. A patch is saved as follows:
1. Click the “Save Patch” button on the device panel:
2. In the file dialog that appears, specify a location and name for the patch file and click Save.
• Under Windows, the different types of patch files have different file extensions.
File extensions are automatically added by Record when you save. Under Mac OS X, file extensions are not
needed but it may be a good idea to keep them if you want the saved files to be usable under Windows.
• If you have selected a patch, modified it and want to save it with the modifications, you could either save a sep-
arate, modified version of the patch (with a new name) or simply overwrite the old patch file on disk.
As usual, you will be asked whether you really want to replace the existing patch file.
! Note that you can save a patch under the same name and location without having the save dialog appear by
holding down [Alt](Win) or [Option](Mac) and clicking the “Save Patch” button on the device panel. Be aware
that this overwrites the original patch!
! Note also that you cannot save into a ReFill! This means that if you have opened a patch from within a ReFill,
modified it and want to save it, you need to save it as a separate file in a new location (outside the ReFill). Pref-
erably, you should also rename the modified patch file, to avoid confusion.
Copying and pasting patches between devices
A quick way to copy device parameter settings between devices of the same type is to use the “Copy Patch” and
“Paste Patch” functions. The result is exactly the same as if you had saved a patch from one device and opened it on
another device of the same type - this is just a quicker method.
! Copying and Pasting settings is possible with all device types that can use patches.
Proceed as follows:
1. Select a patch, and/or make the desired settings on the source device.
Make sure the device remains selected.
2. Select “Copy Patch” from the Edit menu or from the device context menu.
3. Select the destination device of the same type (in the same song or another song).
4. Select “Paste Patch” from the Edit menu or from the device context menu.
The settings of the source device (including Redrum and NN19/NN-XT sample references and Dr. Octo Rex REX
loop references) are applied to the destination device.
! Note that this operation simply copies the settings from one device to another. Adjusting the settings on one
of the devices will not affect the other; neither will the settings affect any patch file on disk.
Copying Main Mixer Insert FX settings and paste as Combinator patches
You can copy Insert FX settings from Main Mixer channels and paste these as Combinator effect patches - or vice
versa. To copy a Main Mixer channel Insert FX setting and paste into a Combinator device, follow the steps below:
1. Select the desired Mix Channel/Audio Track device in the rack, or the desired Mixer Channel in the Main Mixer.
2. Select “Copy Channel Settings -> Insert FX” from the Edit menu or device/Mix Channel context menu.
The Insert FX devices with their settings and connections are placed on the computer’s clipboard memory.