[user-forum] Loading Sounds into MicroQ

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On Freitag 19 Oktober 2007, michael weiss wrote:
>    I have been browsing the various user forum
> soundsets for the MicroQ, and I have compiled a list
> of individuals sounds that I would like to load into
> the MicroQ as a group. My question is this: can I move
> the individual single sound midi files that I want
> into one folder, then import this to my sequencer and
> then dump all the sounds en masse to the MicroQ?

All the single sounds load into an edit buffer (this is in the Readme), 
if you dump all of them to the microQ, they will overwrite each other 
in the edit buffer and you end up with the last one active.  By design 
none of them will ever write to memory unless you do it (for each 
single sound) from the utility menu.

> Or 
> will the MicroQ get confused if there are repeated
> patch numbers (which seem to be) defined for each
> single file? For instance, if I want to load patch A09
> from User Forum soundset 1 and also patch A09 from
> User Forum soundset 2. Do I need to go into midi
> librarian and renumerate all the files first?

You need a MIDI librarian or bank manager that can arrange a bank dump.  
This means that the librarian has to know the dump structure to be able 
to alter the destination for the dump.

SoundDiver can do this, the free Universal Bank Manager from 
www.nilsschneider.de can do this and the free, Java-based microQEdit at 
http://www.psrsoftware.com/mQEdit/main_page.html can do it, too.  I 
myself use a simple Perl script that will compile a dump from a 
directory with appropriately named single files (you just rename them 
from A001 to C100).


Achim.
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