User Manual

SOUNDS AND PATCHES
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Cross-browsing patch files
Cross-browsing patches is a powerful feature of the Patch Browser. It allows you to browse for any type of instru-
ment patches or effect patches, regardless of which instrument or effect device you opened the Browser from.
About instrument and effect patches
Patches are internally divided into two patch categories in the Browser; instrument patches and effect patches (the
Browser “knows” what type of patch it is). This is because instrument patches and effect patches are fundamentally
different - instruments are played, and effects are used to process sound - and you would logically browse for one or
the other, but not both.
When browsing patches from an existing instrument device, the options on the Show menu are:
• “XXX Patches” (where XXX is the device type you opened the Browser from, e.g. NN-XT).
• “All Instruments” will show patches for any instrument device.
When browsing patches from an existing effect device, the options on the menu are:
• “XXX Patches” (where XXX is the device type you opened the Browser from, e.g. RV7000).
• “All Effects” will show patches for any effect device that uses patches, including Combi patches.
! When browsing Insert FX patches for an audio track, Mix Channel or the Master Section, cross-browsing is not
possible (you can only load effect Combinator patches).
! You cannot cross-browse to devices that don't support patches. This includes the ID8, as it only supports its
built-in Preset sounds.
Cross-browsing - an example:
1. You are playing a Subtractor device (Record+Reason) but feel that the sound isn’t quite what you had in mind,
so you open the Browser to check out some other patches.
2. After browsing Subtractor patches for a while, you still haven’t found the type of sound you wanted, so you
click the “Show” pop-up and select “All Instruments” from the menu.
Now you can select instrument patches for any device. You decide to browse a folder containing Malström (Re-
cord+Reason) patches. You can use the Previous/Next buttons to step through the files in the selected folder.
3. As soon as you select a Malström patch in the Browser, a Malström device replaces the Subtractor in the back-
ground (the Browser is still open).
The sequencer track which was previously assigned to the Subtractor is now assigned to a Malström with the
patch selected in the Browser loaded.
• The name of the sequencer track is not automatically changed to reflect the new device.
This may or may not matter. If the track was named “Bass” (and it is a bass sound you are looking for), this obvi-
ously works fine. But if the track was named “Subtractor 1” and you end up with another device connected, it might
be better to rename the track to avoid confusion.
D You can continue to browse patches and play your keyboard to audition them.
Each time you select a patch type belonging to a different device, a corresponding instrument device is created in
the background, replacing the previous instrument.
4. When you have settled on a patch - for whatever instrument device - click “OK” to confirm the selection and
close the dialog.
Clicking Cancel will return to the same state as when opening the Browser.
• Cross-browsing for an effect patch it works in the same way - selecting an effect patch of a different format will
replace the current effect in the background with a device of the selected format.