Hi all
A few days ago I bought a T2 from a friend who desperately needed money. I probably paid over the odds, especially seeing as it was dirty, dead and with a stuffed floppy drive :-) However, I've spent the weekend on it and have it resurrected: new battery, factory presets re-installed and a pile of banks bought. Apart from the dead drive, all's good.

My goal is to use this as a pad-machine. I currently have various pads scattered over several banks which I load via SysEx. What I would like to do is to collect all the pads I want from the various banks into one bank and then set and forget. However, I can't quite figure how this is done - or if it can - via SysEx. Can Sonar SysEx receive individual patches?  Or perhaps there is some other way - bearing in mind the dead floppy*

Any thoughts, most welcome.
Cheers, David

*BTW, I tried OmniFlop on the drive but to no avail.

I am not a Korg T-series user, but I might be able to help you.  Sonar's Sysex view is capable of storing individual patches if your synth can send individual patches to it. 
 
If there is no onboard-the-synth way to do this, check the file drm.ini for dump request macros ... these are sysex commands used to request a dump from the synth.  There are macros in there for the T1 and T3, and with a little checking into the MIDI for the T2 you should be able to come up with a dump request for a single patch.
 
Once you have collected all your single patches in Sonar's Sysex view, save each one of them in their own file.  Then, whenever you start a project, have it transmit all the individual patches to the synth, and they should then be available to you.  It may be a little more complicated than that, but it should get you started.  Good luck!

Many thanks for the response. I'll do as you suggest and see what happens. Cheers, David

I don't know if it helps but the manuals are available at here

Taran_las


I don't know if it helps but the manuals are available at here

Cool, thanks for the manual link.
 
If trying to do this the hard way fails, there is a program called Midi Quest (~$110 or so) that would do this for you easily.  It allows you to dump the entire contents of the synth into the program and then rearrange the patches to your heart's content.  You can then save custom banks and upload them to the synth at will.  If you check into it, be sure that it supports the T2, but I would suspect that it does.
 
As for your floppy, from lookng at the manual, it appears to be a standard double-sided/high-density floppy, and you could probably find one online (Newegg comes to mind) for cheap.  Finding floppy disks for it might be a chore, but there's bound to be some still out there.

Again, thanks. Yes I have found a floppy drive on-line in the States and am having it freighted over. I'm successfully firing banks-with-projects to the T2 but now that I've realized it will accept M1 banks, I have thousands of free patches to sort through :-) Cheers, David.