Hi Nicole
the only ones i can find are embedded in PDF documents. very difficult to
read, and if i save them as text files, make even less sense.
Brian
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From: "Nicole Massey" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 10:19 PM
To: "QWS list" <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: QWS List instrument list for Roland EXR-5S
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
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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
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Fax: +27867214949
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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
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