RP Tip #1: rearranging the patches in your patch set
Posted by Richard Hunter · 3 Comments
There are lots of reasons why you might want to rearrange the order of the patches in a set. For me, it’s usually because I’m using two or more patches in a song, and I want them side by side so I can move between them with one footpress.
There are a couple of ways you can rearrange the patches on the RP. By far the easiest is to connect your RP to the computer via USB and start up the X-edit2 program. X-edit2 will display a list of all the patches currently loaded on the RP. All you have to do is mouse-click and hold on the one you want to move, and drag-and-drop it into the location where you want it to go. X-edit2 will move all the other patches on the RP up one location to make room for the moved one. Done!
You can always move a patch by saving it to the new location, of course, but that technique overwrites the patch that was there earlier, which you might not want to do. This way, you’ve still got all the same patches, but in the order you want them.
If there’s a patch not in your currently loaded set that you want to put on your RP, OPEN it using X-edit2, then STORE it to the desired location on the RP. I provide all my patches as singles as well as bulk loads to make it easy to check out new patches when you’re in the mood.
The click and drag method is not working for me. Perhaps because I am using Mac? Does the click and drag only work on PC? I’m also having trouble adding new patches to the library, but I’m sure I’ll remember/figure out how to do that with a little tinkering…
thanks,
B
Hmmm, I haven’t tried it on the Mac. Seems weird that the same functionality wouldn’t be available. I should have the opportunity to check it out within the next couple of weeks. Stay tuned.
Regarding adding new patches to the library, you can do it two ways. You can save individual patches, or you can save bulk files. Either way, just set up a folder for your patches, and save them there. Then you can reload them into any location you like. By the way, individual patch files have the same format for Mac and PC versions, so you can use them on either.