Editing group presets?

Question

MIDI Target Manufacturer(s): Other/Unlisted Maker

I'm developing a control surface for a synth that only supports writing of settings, not reading, so to manage patches I'd have to create and store all settings as presets in MD. To make this practical, with many patches and individual controls per patch, it would be very useful to be able to edit presets. Much like you can edit named ticks in MD or in a text editor and then paste the text into MD I wonder if a group preset editor is possible. The goal would be to be able to convert the synth's patch list on the PC into some text format that can then be copy/pasted into MD as group settings.

Answer 1

Thanks, this is a great suggestion. It's definitely scary that there's no way to visualize, organize and edit presets in MD. One intermediate way this might happen is to provide a preset export file (in, say, XML) and be able to import that same file. One of the issues is that the preset values are tied to unique IDs that each control has, but those are not exposed to the user anywhere. Since names of controls aren't necessarily unique, it's hard to think about how this would look to the user.

For now, this will be added to the suggestions list, but the more clarity and discussion we have regarding how this would be implemented (in the simplest way possible), the more of a chance it has of getting implemented.

Answer 2

Thanks, this is a great suggestion. It's definitely scary that there's no way to visualize, organize and edit presets in MD. One intermediate way this might happen is to provide a preset export file (in, say, XML) and be able to import that same file. One of the issues is that the preset values are tied to unique IDs that each control has, but those are not exposed to the user anywhere. Since names of controls aren't necessarily unique, it's hard to think about how this would look to the user.

For now, this will be added to the suggestions list, but the more clarity and discussion we have regarding how this would be implemented (in the simplest way possible), the more of a chance it has of getting implemented.