Desired Card Manager Features November 26 2001 at 6:35 PM
Chris Hurley
(Cross posted to the PS02 forum at AX84.com too)
We have been plugging away at the file format for the user patches file and are starting to see some light of day. I expect that we'll be able to have an effects librarian in no time and I'm working on an idea for making it real easy to trade patches.
With that in mind, can we take a moment and address the shortcomings of the Card Manager software and make a list of desired features its replacement should have? Everything won't make it, but some of it could.
For me:
* Ability to pull out specific effects patches from the user bank and archive/trade them as well as import new patches into your existing set
* More flexible audio importing/exporting
* Find effects settings that are not available or not implemented in the PS02 menus (if they exist)
I don't know how plausible this is but have you managed to figure out how the rhythm(drums and bass) is stored. I may be dreaming but I'd love to be able to create my own measures on the computer and export them back to the PS-02 and perhaps even replace the zoom sounds with my own recorded drum sounds? If we could get this thing to act as a fully programable drum machine I'll feel like all my christmas's have come at once.
Chris Hurley
Re: Desired Card Manager Features
November 27 2001, 8:15 AM
Dempsey,
We haven't looked at the drum patterns yet, but that was something I'd forgotten about and had wanted to investigate from the start. I have a very good drum program on the PC called 'PC Drummer' that can export MIDI, I believe. If we could import MIDI, that would be swell.
-CH
Forum Owner
Just a wild idea
November 27 2001, 12:05 PM
This would be cool, a preview feature that lets you hear a sample of the patch. Depending on the type of patch, you would hear a guitar or voice through the patch. The same guitar or voice sample would be used with each patch so you could hear the differences. The whole thing could be done just by including short mp3's with the new manager software and little push buttons to launch each one. Of course, this would only work for the presets, you wouldn't be able to do it for user patches.
Just an idea.
Chris Hurley
Re: Desired Card Manager Features
November 27 2001, 1:56 PM
The BOSS website has samples of their effects pedals like that with like six preset guitar passages sampled every way possible through various pedals. Something like that could be done, maybe.
Peter
Re: Desired Card Manager Features
November 30 2001, 12:50 PM
As long as there's a way to export a finished song from the smartmedia card to your PC, not track by track, but the whole thing, that'd be great. Or maybe its just me who doesn't understand how to do that..?!?
Chris Hurley
Re: Desired Card Manager Features
November 30 2001, 6:39 PM
Exporting the entire song will be tough because you have the MIDI drum track to contend with. In order to pull it from the smartmedia exactly as-is, you'd have to take the drum samples and extract them from the files then use them to render a non-MIDI drum and bass track. Not too easy.
The best way so far is just to record the output of the unit using your computer. If you get noise, use a software tool to remove it.
dan harvey
MIDI I/O
December 5 2001, 6:08 AM
Glad to hear someone is working on this.
Top of my wish list is SMF import for drum and bass - this way we can use Cubase, whatever to creat usable patterns.
