Librarian Software

[RobinC]

What are people using as librarian software for the Rev 2. I have the Codeknobs editor which is fine for editing not so good as a librarian. Is Midiquest the only viable option?

[kris]

I wrote my own ;-), it is not public code (yet), but in the meanwhile you might want to check out Laser Mammoth, they state to have at least a beta version of Rev2 support over there at https://f0f7.net/

[creativespiral]

The Soundtower Editor is very good for librarian duties.   (just make sure you get the editor version, not the VST version)   It has lots of tools to copy/paste, drag/drop, and tag presets by type.   Also, it has a "phantom banks" function that lets you create virtual banks outside the ones on the Rev2... useful for large scale reorganization of presets and creating your own user banks.

[RobinC]

Thanks for the tips. Tagging I think is going to be a must

[timboréale]

+1 more for SoundTower, although it's rather clunky, has a terrible skeuomorphic "design", and has (from what I can tell) absolutely NO manual whatsoever (and rather useless help).

Also I think CodeKnobs around here has a nice plugin but I only have their VST version and it's not really a librarian so I can't speak to what they offer in the standalone.

[kris]

Thanks for the tips. Tagging I think is going to be a must

And I am only a few nights of work away from releasing the KnobKraft Orm Sequential Prophet Rev2 Sysex Librarian as OpenSource 

Attached a quick screenshot as a teaser.

This is not so much a bank editor as a real Librarian. Banks currently are much better supported in LaserMammoth.

The KnobKraft Orm 1.0 does:

• Auto-detect the MIDI interface where the synth is connected and its MIDI channel
• Import any amount of sysex files and have them displayed as patch buttons, one click sends a patch into the edit buffer
• Manual tagging of a patch, with colored display and filters for patches of a specific type
• Manual favoriting of a patch, with filtering to show only favorites
• Filtering to show only patches of a specific import source (e.g. Razmo's patches imported from a file)
• Duplicate avoidance of patches in the database by calculating a hash of the patch data without name, so you would avoid duplicates in all but name
• Importing patches from the synth by bank - would only import patches that you have changed in the synth since last import, so you can easily work in the synth and then back up only the changed patches into the computer
• Comes with a set of regular expressions to automatically tag patches based on a naming scheme, allows you to define your own naming scheme and re-tag all or subsets of the patches
• Remembers which tags were set by you and which by the automatic tagger, so if you re-tag you don't lose your manually assigned tags
• Stores everything local in a little SQLite database on your computer, nobody able to steal your precious patches from some Internet server ;-)

Of course, as it is a 1.0 release, there will be some restrictions and nicks:

• Incredibly ugly interface made by me - if somebody can or knows somebody who can and wants to help UI/UX designer, I am happy to accept criticism!
• Windows build only - but the technology is cross-platform so you can compile on Linux or Mac. Actually I am looking for somebody with a Mac to find out how to build it and provide installers for all you Mac folks - help wanted!
• Currently only comes with a fixed list of Tags, future version will allow you to add more (preloaded: Lead, Pad, Brass, Organ, Keys, Bass, Arp, Pluck, Drone, Drum, Bell, SFX)

The long term goal is to turn this into a touch-based controller (Raspi? Android Tablet?) I can attach to my keyboard rack and switch and browse patches without needing the computer.

[kris]

Thanks for the tips. Tagging I think is going to be a must

Just to notify the watchers of this thread - thanks to lock down I found the time to make my software, which supports tagging and auto-tagging based on naming conventions, available for download. See the other forum thread for the announcement: https://forum.sequential.com/index.php/topic,4237.0.html

[XAS]

The Soundtower Editor is very good for librarian duties.   (just make sure you get the editor version, not the VST version)   It has lots of tools to copy/paste, drag/drop, and tag presets by type.   Also, it has a "phantom banks" function that lets you create virtual banks outside the ones on the Rev2... useful for large scale reorganization of presets and creating your own user banks.

Hi, I am interested in what the Shountower Editor can do, I am actually in the process of buying it, but I was wondering what is the difference between the Editor and the VST and you seem to know it pretty well. Would you mind sharing it here?
Thank
J

[RobinC]

Thanks for this will be sure to check it out

Regards

[metasim]

Our dreams have come true!

https://forum.sequential.com/index.php/topic,4237.0.html