Re:Saving favorites in DP and Rap
2012/01/10 22:31:31
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I share the pain. I have, what, 8 bazillion patches and I actively use maybe only 30,000 of them on a good day(okay, I might be off by an order of magnitude or two or three or....but you know what I mean). It sure would be nice to EASILY mark my favorites. When I think about demoing a soft synth these days, I FIRST look at the product's librarian/filing/categorizing system. If it isn't going to make it easy (possible) to find the patches I want FAST, then what's the point of having all those patches to choose from. Wading through dozens/hundreds of non-appropriate patches kills the creative vibe faster than one can say jack-the-ripper.
Now I LOVE CW soft synths, especially RP (thanks in no small part to folks like chad showing me how to get the most out of it), but if I was looking at purchasing either RP or DimPro today for the first time, I'd probably pass them up, unlistened to, because I wouldn't see a way to get quickly to the patches I know/like/friend/favor/whatever. A super-librarian system--okay, ANY librarian system would be the biggest/bestest enhancement any CW synth could have, in my book.
TIP:
I do as chad does with a favorites folder, but also: on patches that I like, I rename them with a preceding exclamation point or hash mark ("!" or "#"). That way they rise to the top of their categories (alphabetically) while still keeping their original name. When I'm auditioning sounds, it's easy to audition them first. (One of these days, I'm going to go through and rename patches that I really can't stand with a preceding tilde to push them to the bottom of the list.)
My favorites folder is actually "!favorites" to keep IT at the top of the folder stack.