Patchnames for external Synths?
Hello music enthusiasts! 🙂
I'm a longtime Cubase user and just had a look at Logic Express 7. The most annoying thing for me in Cubase was the fact that I had to type all the patch names of all my hardware synths into a text file (Cubase prior to SX) and import that into Cubase or, with Cubase SX, type them into Cubase itself (and possibly export them as an XML file if I wanted to share them with others).
This was a hideous task and up to today I ask myself why nobody ever started some web portal where all the Cubase users in the world could download XML or txt files for their synths!? Instead (I bet!) the same patchname lists for the same synths were made a hundred times by many individuals again and again! 😟
But here comes my user friendly Mac and user friendly OS X and easy to use computer from my beloved company Apple!
I'm SURE this task is much more easy with Logic (Express)!
Don't tell me, I'm wrong!
Am I?
How is this managed with Logic?
By now, even after browsing and scanning the manual I'm not quite sure. I read something about environments but what is it?
Is there ONE way? Or more? I ask because I can think of three ways
1) this is handled by the OS in the MIDI&Audio tool where I defined my MIDI setup.
2) this is handeld by/within Logic
3) this is done with Sounddiver
Option 3) is not really an option because Sounddiver doesn't come with either Logic nor OS X, right?
And it can't be option 1) because I can't enter all patch names and sysex commands there.
So it has to be option 2, right?
But where? Okay, let's forget about GM patch names. The really interesting patches aren't the GM patches. And I have non-GM synths, too.
So, one thing I want to learn is: how do I enter the patch names and sysex commands for my synths?
And the other thing is: because I don't want to do it all again after I did it for Cubase SX, I want to know where I can download these settings and where/how I can import them for each synth in Logic?
I set up all my MIDI hardware/synths in OSX's Audio/MIDI setup tool so I assume Logic knows the devices, too (with their names, too) so that I can select them and import the patch names & sysex commands for each of them.
And please forgive me, but I really don't get it from the Logic manual. It describes each function, check box, menu item but it really doesn't describe actual use cases like this! 😟
Any help?
Thanks a lot!
Stefan.
I'm a longtime Cubase user and just had a look at Logic Express 7. The most annoying thing for me in Cubase was the fact that I had to type all the patch names of all my hardware synths into a text file (Cubase prior to SX) and import that into Cubase or, with Cubase SX, type them into Cubase itself (and possibly export them as an XML file if I wanted to share them with others).
This was a hideous task and up to today I ask myself why nobody ever started some web portal where all the Cubase users in the world could download XML or txt files for their synths!? Instead (I bet!) the same patchname lists for the same synths were made a hundred times by many individuals again and again! 😟
But here comes my user friendly Mac and user friendly OS X and easy to use computer from my beloved company Apple!
I'm SURE this task is much more easy with Logic (Express)!
Don't tell me, I'm wrong!
Am I?
How is this managed with Logic?
By now, even after browsing and scanning the manual I'm not quite sure. I read something about environments but what is it?
Is there ONE way? Or more? I ask because I can think of three ways
1) this is handled by the OS in the MIDI&Audio tool where I defined my MIDI setup.
2) this is handeld by/within Logic
3) this is done with Sounddiver
Option 3) is not really an option because Sounddiver doesn't come with either Logic nor OS X, right?
And it can't be option 1) because I can't enter all patch names and sysex commands there.
So it has to be option 2, right?
But where? Okay, let's forget about GM patch names. The really interesting patches aren't the GM patches. And I have non-GM synths, too.
So, one thing I want to learn is: how do I enter the patch names and sysex commands for my synths?
And the other thing is: because I don't want to do it all again after I did it for Cubase SX, I want to know where I can download these settings and where/how I can import them for each synth in Logic?
I set up all my MIDI hardware/synths in OSX's Audio/MIDI setup tool so I assume Logic knows the devices, too (with their names, too) so that I can select them and import the patch names & sysex commands for each of them.
And please forgive me, but I really don't get it from the Logic manual. It describes each function, check box, menu item but it really doesn't describe actual use cases like this! 😟
Any help?
Thanks a lot!
Stefan.
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