brock and a few other project5 users at one time had taken screen shots of all the program folders as a way to keep inventory on all the existing factory patches, although I don't think those articles made it into the new project5wiki.  I tried searching around and couldn't find those. 

The plist files for Dimension Pro and Rapture can be opened in a text editor.  Those files contain a list of the programs, you could probably manipulate those to create some type of usable list for your needs.

The patch/library browser in Cakewalk Sound Center seems to be a step in the right direction, looking forward to see how that develops.

After doing a search inside Kore 2, i have found that a patch list wouldn't help you find the 'ooh' sounds that you're looking for... Because there arn't any inside any Cakewalk Synths/Samplers(!)

Plenty of 'aah's, but not a single 'ooh.'

There's some inside Kontakt 4, which may be included in the sounds that you get with the free Kontakt Player that you can download from Native Instruments. There's nothing else from NI either. Can you believe that - you get 10,000 sounds when you buy Komplete 7, but only 2 of them are female O vowels. Alto, or Soprano.


On a side note, i agree with AT, and suggest that for synth sounds, a patch listing would be pretty much useless. By that i mean that you could want a certain bass sound, so you find one by name that works ok - but there's proberly a better fitting sound that has some weird name that you'd never connect it that sound.

Cakewalk's Sound Centre is a big a step in the right direction, but obviously needs further development to allow us to add and 'tag' our own sounds, and include more than just Dim Pro and Rapture in it's included sounds.

Cakewalk Sound Centre is very very simular to Kore 2, but Kore 2 allows you to add and tag your own sounds, it features a much more indepth  browser for finding sounds, and you can create 8 different versions of a sound (or 8 completly different sounds) and morph between them. And it's not a simple crossfade that raises and lowers volume, it changes the parmeters of the synth.

You can use it as a host aswell. If you make electronic music and/or use a lot of synths, i honestly cannot recommend Kore 2 enough - not just for the browser function, but for everything else it has to offer.

P.S. I don't work for NI BTW, i just really like Kore 2 because it's speeded up my workflow so much.

S.Wallis


After doing a search inside Kore 2, i have found that a patch list wouldn't help you find the 'ooh' sounds that you're looking for... Because there arn't any inside any Cakewalk Synths/Samplers(!)

Plenty of 'aah's, but not a single 'ooh.'

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since there isn't one to be found, a patch list couldn't help me find it, but it would have saved me trouble of loading the a soft synth into the project and searching hi and low to no avail for the "ooh" and then having to delete the instance and the tracks that were set up for it. followed by a repeat of all of that for most of the other synths included w/ x1pe. i didn't bother looking in the ones that seem to be for beats and loops.

btw, the same thing happened yesterday looking for a trombone other than the one included in the tts1.

*they should at least then have a way to look in the synth without first having to insert it into the project and set up tracks for it only to find that what you need is not in it, then go back and delete everything.*

as far as the free kontakt4, i had downloaded that at one time, but when i installed x1pe a couple of months ago, guitar rig4 kept crashing and i wasn't sure why so i uninstalled the free kontact4 just to see if that might be causing the problem. it wasn't. turned out that there is a required update/patch for gr4 on ni's site for download. maybe i'll try kontak4 again, thanks for reminding me.

there is an easy way to do it.. I've done it for the DSF stuff, made patch lists of it

if your old skool and did DOS , then all you do, locate the "programs" folder of the sounds

go out to cmd prompt

dir *.prog /s > c:\patches.txt

exit DOS

open up ya fav text editor and load up

 away ya go :)

the browsers for some of the cake synths aren't standard.. as a kore user (full version) it's a major annoyance as I can't just pick them.. if they stuck to it like in z3ta.. then makes life easier