Global Patch Bank Initialization

UDO Audio Gear Feature Wishlist
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Ok, this may be a little daft, but please bear with me:

When I’m creating patches on the S6, I’ll sometimes load up a patch I created a month or so back and wonder “Is this mine or a factory patch?” or “Did I create this one in this current round of creations?” The lack of a screen does mean you have to be a lot more diligent with both back ups and in keeping up to date notes handy for each patch location, particularly if you have several days/weeks between creative sessions. (There also doesn’t appear to be any reliable timestamps on the created/edited internal files - for understandable reasons, but they too would make file management a little easier)

I thought it would be a nice feature (especially for anyone looking to create patch packs themselves) to be able to initialize all patches on the S6 via a button press combination e.g Hold SHIFT + PATCH, wait 3 seconds then press MANUAL

This way I’d be confident that any patch location I click on with the familiar ‘init’ sound is a fresh start point without overwriting something from a week prior that I forgot to back up or name. Once I’m out of new init locations, I’d know that I’d have a completed patch pack of my own creations.

Failing this suggested button combo implementation, I’ve created an initialized patch bank folder that I now use after I’ve backed up the drive. I’ve included a zip file link below. It is simply a backup of all patch_bank folders with an init patch saved in every location

  1. Unzip and open
  2. Copy the all or sections of the patch_banks folder to the S6 in PATCH mode

If something along these lines could be added to the official S6 Downloads area it may be useful (avoiding the need to trust a random google drive link from me!)

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Memory / Patch Corruption
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Great idea! A quick “init all patches” button would make managing patches much easier. Your backup folder is a handy workaround.

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ekeu No, not a good idea! Think about it, you mistakenly use that button combination and your entire amazing work of the last month or year evaporates. No warning message, and of course they weren’t backed up on your computer.

Regarding the first point, maybe S6 was a bad buying decision? Here’s what I did. Copy the full name of every factory patch, off the computer, longhand into a book. Yep, old fashion biro and paper. My own creations go on Bank B, written in pencil in my book. They are even date stamped! Every synth I own is in this book, showing every single setting, in order, as you would page through. I can literally explore any synth, without even having it in front of me, on the bus or where ever. If you’ve had a struggle to find some pesky setting, which you vaguely remember, this is excellent. Roland settings, for example, are a single list, meaning some controls are closer to less used settings. So less scrolling. Other synths group settings into several looped lists, e.g. Fred’s Lab Manatee.

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