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MIDI Set Up and Use / FreeMidi PatchList to OMS Doc




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Now we know it's all about getting the correct names inside our synthesizers and turning them in to OMS documents. And we can bulk dump our patch names, using various patch name editors, or we can cut and paste them from other documents like free midi documents. And thankfully, the many patch name documents that you see here are text files, and we can cut and paste these names into our OMS documents. And since we've already done a little bit of work in bank C, we can now methodically add names one at a time if we would like. And thanks to the folks at Mo2 for saving us a lot of typing in this respect. And in OMS names we select the dot and choose paste patch names. Then we save out and go get the next name - hip/funky base, copy, head back up to Pro Tools and to OMS names, double click our document, select the dot and paste patch names. So working this way, you can see it really wouldn't take too long to get through a bank. And this is also very useful if you've updated say some of the patches in the middle of your bank, and you get mixed up as to what your originals were, you can always just check here. If you really wanted to, you can also perform OCR in Acrobat, which would be done by scanning your manual and then converting the text to editable text. And this is a good way to work when we are doing small blocks or individual patch names. But we can also paste in an entire bank at once if we would like. So we copy as many names as we want to paste in, and then we create a new document, and I've already done some of the work for us here. We paste it in, then we would eliminate the data that we don't need, and the trick to doing this is to eliminate the space between the numbers and the name and then use tab on your keyboard. Okay, but I've set it up in advance for us, so those all have tabs between the numbers and the name and we just copy it back to Pro Tools, up to OMS names, double click a document and then we shift select to select multiple. And we could have an entire bank on our clipboard, but as many as we select will be pasted in with paste patch names. This has got to be the easiest way of all for updating large sections of patch changes or entire banks quickly. So we save out, head back to Pro Tools and check our work. There is our bank, and there is our patch names; now we can audition them to make sure that the patch names we pasted in are actually the patch names that are residing on our synth currently. And they all match up, so we've done good work. Now, with a little bit of copying and pasting and some help from the folks of Mo2, it's that easy. One more thing in case you didn't know, OMS names didn't used to be inside of Pro Tools. And we can still use OMS names, the application itself outside of Pro Tools. You can download it from the Digi website and then if you like you can work on your patch names without having to launch Pro Tools.

Tutorial Information

Course: Pro Tools LE
Author: Jonathan Kagi
SKU: 33363
ISBN: 1930519664
Release Date: 2002-07-24
Duration: 9.5 hrs / 122 lessons
Captions: For Online University members only
Compatibility: Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux
QuickTime 7, Flash 8

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