Muse Research Receptor manual v1.2 - Manual (Page 175)

14: Patch Management 175 Receptor Manual
14 Patch Management
Managing Patch (.fxp) and Bank (.fxb) files
Receptor and your computer work together to help you manage your banks and patches.
Manual Patch Management
The most orderly way to deal with patch banks is to “massage” them into shape on a computer before sending
them to Receptor.
Basically, any patch created for Receptor must be named in the following format:
nnn-patchname.fxp, where nnn=patch number from 000-127
No patch bank can contain more than 128 patches.
For example, suppose you download a bunch of patches for Dash Signature’s daAlpha2k synthesizer from
various web sites. You can gather up to 128 of them in a single folder, which you name something like
“daAlpha2k Web1.” You then rename each patch with a prefix number and a dash, where the prefix number is
the actual MIDI patch number.
When you drag-and-drop this folder to Receptor’s “Drop Installers Here” folder and trigger an install (see
“Installing Patches (.fxp/.fxb) on Receptor” on page 171), Receptor creates a bank out of this folder and assigns
it the next available MSB/LSB. If that folder contains fewer than 128 patches, Receptor creates empty patches
to fill out the bank.
Semi-Automatic Patch Management
If you’d rather not bother with sorting your patches into folders and manually numbering them, you can have
Receptor “do it for you.”
For example, assume you downloaded 131 patches for the “ABCvst” plugin from various web sites, and
dragged them all into a single folder, which you named “ABCvst-p”.
When you drag-and-drop this folder to Receptor’s “Drop Installers Here” folder and trigger an install (see
“Installing Patches (.fxp/.fxb) on Receptor” on page 171), Receptor automatically alphabetizes them and
assigns prefix numbers to them. It automatically creates a bank for the first 128 patches, assigns it an MSB/
LSB and auto-names it “ABCvst-p 001”. It then creates another bank for the next 128 patches (or 3 patches,
in this example), provides a prefix for the patches, and auto-assigns the bank an MSB/LSB and auto-names it
“ABCvst-p 002.”