Factory Sound and Style Reordering - Two Questions
Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 1:58 pm
I have heard rumours of several people who have "reordered" the factory sounds on the Pa1x. I want to maintain compatibility with other users' styles etc, but there are two things I'd like to do and I wonder whether anyone could instruct me how to do it?
Question 1:
When you select factory sounds, some sound banks have 4 pages of 8 entries, some have 7 or 8 pages of entries etc. There are some pages with fewer than 8 entries.
What I'd like to be able to do is to produce my own variants of the factory sound data structure in order to create a number of "spare locations" available to store the variants under each of the factory sound bank headings. I don't want to put the entries I create under the User 1, 2, or 3 sound banks because I want to keep Pianos under the Piano tab, Strings under the Strings tab etc. If it was necessary to sacrifice say the 128 User2 storage locations to achieve the storage space for this, then this is a sacrifice I would willingly make.
Same question for Styles, ie sacrifice User2 style entries in order to distribute them as spare locations under the Factory style headings "Rock", Latin 1" etc.
The modified spare storage locations should be protectable using the factory style & song protect lock in the same way as the actual factory styles & songs are protected.
Has anyone managed to modify the Korg Musical Resources v3 data structure in such a way to create these extra "spare" sound locations under each style and sound bank heading?
Question 2:
Is it possible to reorder the Musical Resources v3 database for the Pa1x so that the data structure becomes as nearly compatible as possible with the Pa2x and Pa800 - so that Pa2x and Pa800 styles will play directly on the Pa1x (albeit with a few frills such as guitar mode missing) ?
Of course the modification from question 1 would be needed as well.
My thinking is that if we can achieve as much compatibility between the Pa1x, Pa800 and Pa2x as possible then this will encourage a more productive development of styles and enhanced Midi files (with Korg sounds as opposed to GM) that are directly compatible for playing on all variants of these instruments.
PS
It would obviously need someone with some clever PC-based sound editing software to be able to do this. Korg's Factory Data that is supplied in the Musical Resources v3 file would have to be modified. Also, since the Musical Resources files are Korg's intellectual property, we will need permission from Korg to make this modified musical database available to forum members.
Anyway, please let me know if you think that such a project would be feasible/ desirable/ helpful to Pa1x owners on the forum? If you have the necessary expertise to help with this, again please let me know?
Best regards,
Rob
Question 1:
When you select factory sounds, some sound banks have 4 pages of 8 entries, some have 7 or 8 pages of entries etc. There are some pages with fewer than 8 entries.
What I'd like to be able to do is to produce my own variants of the factory sound data structure in order to create a number of "spare locations" available to store the variants under each of the factory sound bank headings. I don't want to put the entries I create under the User 1, 2, or 3 sound banks because I want to keep Pianos under the Piano tab, Strings under the Strings tab etc. If it was necessary to sacrifice say the 128 User2 storage locations to achieve the storage space for this, then this is a sacrifice I would willingly make.
Same question for Styles, ie sacrifice User2 style entries in order to distribute them as spare locations under the Factory style headings "Rock", Latin 1" etc.
The modified spare storage locations should be protectable using the factory style & song protect lock in the same way as the actual factory styles & songs are protected.
Has anyone managed to modify the Korg Musical Resources v3 data structure in such a way to create these extra "spare" sound locations under each style and sound bank heading?
Question 2:
Is it possible to reorder the Musical Resources v3 database for the Pa1x so that the data structure becomes as nearly compatible as possible with the Pa2x and Pa800 - so that Pa2x and Pa800 styles will play directly on the Pa1x (albeit with a few frills such as guitar mode missing) ?
Of course the modification from question 1 would be needed as well.
My thinking is that if we can achieve as much compatibility between the Pa1x, Pa800 and Pa2x as possible then this will encourage a more productive development of styles and enhanced Midi files (with Korg sounds as opposed to GM) that are directly compatible for playing on all variants of these instruments.
PS
It would obviously need someone with some clever PC-based sound editing software to be able to do this. Korg's Factory Data that is supplied in the Musical Resources v3 file would have to be modified. Also, since the Musical Resources files are Korg's intellectual property, we will need permission from Korg to make this modified musical database available to forum members.
Anyway, please let me know if you think that such a project would be feasible/ desirable/ helpful to Pa1x owners on the forum? If you have the necessary expertise to help with this, again please let me know?
Best regards,
Rob
