As specified in the TAKE5 manual, when importing a bank of patches into the TAKE5 as Sysex
"Programs will load back into the same bank and program locations from which they were originally exported."i.e. If you (or a vendor that sold you a bank of patches) created and exported that bank of patches from User Bank 01 on the TAKE5, that bank assignment is saved into the Sysex file.
This means that as default when importing that saved bank of patches back into any TAKE5 unit, they will automatically import to User Bank 01.
You can not choose which bank on your unit to import them.
There is a workaround for this as long as you don't mind getting your hand dirty with a little code editing.You will need a hexadecimal code editor (Hex Editor).I recommend 'Hex Fiend' to Mac users.
http://hexfiend.com/Windows and Linux users should be able to find a free Hex Editor easily enough with a quick google.
- First, make a copy of the Sysex file that contains the bank you want to import to the TAKE5. (I'd always advise editing a copy, so you have the original to go back to if you mess up).
- Open the Sysex file inside your Hex Editor.
- The very first 8 characters of the Sysex file should be F0 01 35 02 - If you search the Sysex file, you will see this pattern multiple times (once at the beginning of each block of characters that denotes a single patch within the bank - so in the Sysex file for a bank of 16 patches, you will find this string 16 times within the code)
- Each time you see the string F0 01 35 02 the number pair that directly follow it depicts the bank on the TAKE5 that patch belongs to. So a string of F0 01 35 02 00 for instance will import to bank 01. (Because Sysex is a 'zero indexed' file format, 00 = 01, 01 = 02 etc)
- So in order to specify a different bank that the Sysex file should be imported into, we need to edit the file, replacing the number pair with the number pair that corresponds to our desired bank number (still with me?)
Use the 'find + replace' function of your Hex Editor and swap out that number pair for the bank you prefer.
Example: I have a bank file that was exported from User Bank 01. I want to import it to User Bank 03 on my TAKE5, So I find and replace all instances of 'F0 01 35 02 00' with 'F0 01 35 02 02' (remember in zero index '2' = '3') - Save changes to your Sysex file
- Open your Sysex librarian of choice or your favorite DAW
- Back up the current contents of your TAKE5 before proceding
- Once you are safely backuped UP, send your newly edited Sysex bank file to you TAKE5
Here's a handy list of the Hexidecimal strings to replace for each of the USER Banks.
F0 01 35 02 00 = Bank 1
F0 01 35 02 01 = Bank 2
F0 01 35 02 02 = Bank 3
F0 01 35 02 03 = Bank 4
F0 01 35 02 04 = Bank 5
F0 01 35 02 05 = Bank 6
F0 01 35 02 06 = Bank 7
F0 01 35 02 07 = Bank 8
And if you have updated to TAKE5 Firmware 2.0 and above you will also have the extra 8 banks:
F0 01 35 02 08 = Bank 9
F0 01 35 02 09 = Bank A
F0 01 35 02 10 = Bank B
F0 01 35 02 11 = Bank C
F0 01 35 02 12 = Bank D
F0 01 35 02 13 = Bank E
F0 01 35 02 14 = Bank F
F0 01 35 02 15 = Bank G
*Note that a Sysex file can contain multiple banks.
If you want to import a Sysex file that contains more than one bank, you would need to complete the 'find and replace' procedure within the file for each bank.
Say you downloaded a single Sysex file called '6 Great Banks for the TAKE5', we can assume it contains 6 banks of possibly 16 sounds per bank.
If the first 10 characters of the file are F0 01 35 02 00 (User Bank 1), we might then assume that the banks will be imported into the TAKE5 to User Banks 1-6 (F0 01 35 02 00 - F0 01 35 02 05).
There would likely be 16 blocks of code beginning with F0 01 35 02 00, 16 blocks beginning with F0 01 35 02 01, and so on.
If we wanted to change which bank each of these was imported to, we would need to find and replace all instances of all 6 strings that we want to change within the same file.
**The above may be possible, without editing code, from inside the Soundtower editor and librarian, but I refuse to pay $69 for a librarian when every other synth company provides editors free of charge to their customers.
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