Can you find a patch list online for it? If so, there's a fairly easy way to do it.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brian Williams Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 4:14 PM To: QWS list Subject: QWS List instrument list for roland EXR-5S Hi all here's hoping, does anyone have a instrument list already formatted, or text vertion, for the roland EXR-5S arranger keyboard? I believe it may be the same as the exr-3. would be grateful. Brian -------------------------------------------------- From: "Nicole Massey" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2012 4:42 PM To: "QWS list" <[email protected]> Subject: RE: QWS List Instrument definition file for Yamaha SP710 > There's a rather easy way to create these lists Here's what you do: > > 1. Find a similar list and copy it to the new file name. So for > example, if you had a Roland ZQ-1800 which is similar to the Roland > Zq-1000, use an instrument definition file for the 1000 and change the > name. > 2. Open the file in Notepad. Also open an Excel session and another > instance of notepad. Also open a website or other source for the patch > list for your particular instrument. > 3. Cut the patch list, with all of its formatting information, out of > the definition file and paste it in your blank notepad instance. Go > to the first line and delete the first comma, and press tab. Select > the tab with the characters directly before and after it. Press CTRL+H > to get into the find and replace dialog. > 4. In the find box, put a comma. In the replace box put your copied > material using CTRL+V. Delete the characters before and after the tab, > so only the tab is there. Press Shift+Tab three times to get to the > replace all button. Hit the spacebar.. This may take a bit. Press tab, > and when you hear it say "Cancel" hit the space bar. > 5. Press CTRL+A, then CTRL+X. Go to Excel and paste this. You should > now have everything in columns, where the first one is the MIDI > channel, the second one is the patch number, and the third one is the > bank, followed by the patch name. Delete all incorrect patches, or if > you want to do this the fast and easy way press CTRL+- and select > "Delete Entire Column" in the list of options then hit enter. > 6. Paste your correct patch numbers into the spreadsheet. Make sure > that any leading spaces are removed, as this makes it impossible to > hit the first letter of the patch name to accelerate to it. Press > CTRL+A again and then CTRL+C. Paste this in your notepad session. > 7. Repeat the process of Find in Replace in reverse, converting tabs > to commas. You now have a formatted patch list proper for QWS. Once > more press > CTRL+A and then CTRL+X and then paste this in the definition file. > CTRL+Save it > and close your other notepad session, Excel, and the patch list. > When you get used to this it takes about five minutes to make an > instrument definition file. Excel is handy for this because it allows > you to manipulate data in terms of columns, while Notepad is the only > text editor among the usual suspects that allows you to use tabs for > find and replace. You can do this without Notepad, but it's a slower > process -- set it to load CSV files and it should parse things to the > right columns, though if your patch descriptions have any commas in > them then it'll break those cells up, which isn't preferable. > If anyone runs into any problems with this let me know. I just used it > a couple of days ago to create a definition file for the E-mu Proteus > VX, and that has over 1000 patches. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Dewald > Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2012 10:23 AM > To: QWS list > Subject: Re: QWS List Instrument definition file for Yamaha SP710 > > Why don't you create your own? > I took the Yamaha instrument file on the QWS site, and adapted it for > my Yamaha PSR E323. > > I just went down the list of my instrument manual and checked which > items were there, and took out of the instrument list which wasn't on > my keyboard. > > I left the purcussion list as it were, because it was exactly the same. > > Regards, > Dewald. > > DL van Deventer > Cell: +27824614865 > Fax: +27867214949 > E-mail: > [email protected] > Skype: <Dewie007> > > > On 7/10/2012 9:53 AM, David (Mr Music) wrote: >> Hi friends >> I am urgently looking for an instrument definition file for the >> Yamaha SP710. >> Can anyone help please? >> Thanks >> David >> >> -- >> This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by >> *Pinpoint Securemail*, and is believed to be clean. > > To unsubscribe or change list options, see http://lists.andrelouis.com > > for archived list posts, see > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > To unsubscribe or change list options, see http://lists.andrelouis.com > > for archived list posts, see > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] To unsubscribe or change list options, see http://lists.andrelouis.com for archived list posts, see http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] To unsubscribe or change list options, see http://lists.andrelouis.com for archived list posts, see http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
