User Manual

SOUNDS AND PATCHES
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Using Favorites - a practical example
Here follows a practical example of how you can use Favorites for patch files:
You are preparing for a live gig as a keyboard player. You know the songs, and you have chosen suitable patches (in
various device formats) for each song.
You want to use Record, but you want to be able to switch to the correct patch for each song using your MIDI key-
board, and not have to worry about fiddling with the computer during your performance.
Here is how this can be done by using Favorites:
1. Create a new Record song.
2. Create an instrument device, for example a Combinator.
It doesn’t matter which instrument device you choose at this point.
3. Open the Patch Browser from the Combinator device.
4. Click the “Create New Favorites Lists” button.
A new folder appears in the list. Double-click it and type in an appropriate name.
5. Select to show “All Instruments” on the Show drop-down list.
Now you can start locating the patches you need by navigating in the Browser.
6. When you have located a patch that you need for the gig, drag it from the Browser into the Favorites List folder.
If this was a patch in a different format than the instrument you created, a device of this type will replace the orig-
inal device (see “Cross-browsing patch files”).
7. Continue to add new patches in the same way until you have all the patches you need.
8. When you’re done, select the Favorites List folder.
The folder is opened in the Browser, listing all the patches you added.
9. Use drag and drop to order the patch files according to the set list.
10.Select the first patch file in the Favorites List and click OK.
The browser closes with the patch loaded.
D If you have a MIDI keyboard or control surface with programmable buttons, you can assign a button to “Select
next patch” on the device.
Many MIDI keyboards and control surfaces have buttons assigned to patch selection - check the Control Surface
Details document for information about your controllers. Alternatively, you can manually assign buttons for select-
ing patches - see the “Remote - Playing and Controlling Devices” chapter.
11.Save the Song.
12.At the gig, open the song, and the first patch will be loaded.
13.When the first song is finished, use the “next patch” button on the device or on your MIDI keyboard and the
next patch in the Favorites List will be loaded!