Hi - I have watched a number of the SV related videos and have some grasp of what SV can achieve, but ...getting things exactly right ...is currently beyond me, and if I could be steered to the correct, precise instructions on how or what to do - man, that would be so helpful.
My XV-5080 has 4x SR-JV80 and 4x SRX expansion cards in it. I went to the Roland website and used their online tool to create a .ins file, which according to the tool's instructions would create a .ins file containing Patch and Rhythm Preset Banks A~G, and the 4x SRX cards patches & rhythms (if they had rhythms) as well. This absolutely worked, and I took the resulting file and passed it through Lukas's amazing S1toolbox (thanks for this ...such a great resource).
I made sure the XV was correctly set up as an external instrument, pulled it onto a track, opened the SV editor, and dropped the 'toolboxed' file and ...wham, the patches and drum kits were there. My problem is that the data related to 4x SR-JV80 expansion cards is not included, and the efforts I've made to learn how to get 100% of the preset and expansion card patches and kits into the XV's SV list haven't been successful.
Q1 - if you have data in the SV editor window, and you drag another file onto the window (presumably to add the new info to the existing info) ...the new info wipes the previous info out. Is that correct (AI says yes and no, depending on its mood)
Q2 - assuming that you can't drag-to-add, is there a correct process that allows you to copy new info into the SV editor that ends up with the desired result?
Q3 - if neither drag-to-add, or copy/paste works, is there info that provides the exact syntax and location within the doc for new data to be entered into the .ins file ...so that I could update the .ins file from the roland site such that it would also now include the data for the 4x SR-JV80 cards, as well as all the previously correct and working patch and kit data?
Q4 - If none of the approaches above is correct ...pointing me towards 'how to do it right' would be greatly appreciated.
Q5A - Am I correct that each external device (XV in my case) can have a single SV file associated with it? (If I'm wrong...and the XV can have more than 1 SV file associated and recallable, then maybe I'd have the big Roland sourced .ins file (which got 'toolboxed'), but then I'd toolbox the .ins files for each of the individual SR-JV80 cards and access each of them when I want by calling up there SV files??
Q5B - in attempting to test my theory that I could use the individual toolboxed .ins files for each of the 4 SR-JV80 cards, I discovered that while the files were correctly recognized by SV, and correctly displayed the patch names/numbers for the card in question, when I used SV to recall patches, the patches that the XV actually recalled were all in the 'A' (first) SR-JV80 expansion card slot. For clarity ...I dropped the toolboxed .ins file for the SR-JV80-17 (which is physically installed in C [third] expansion slot), and when I selected sounds to play using SV, it recalled the corresponding patch from 'A slot', not 'C slot'.
Comment: I have the XV-5080 and Studio Pro manuals. I have the XV bank and patch tables in front of me, and so, would use that info to update either the .ins files or the .keyswitch files in a text editor if this helped, but the bit of experimentation I did (being very careful to make sure the numbers I used were accurate to the XV manual) ...was not successful. The file I modified was updated to include the manual-sourced info on patches 1-128, 129-256, and rhythm bank for SR-JV80 slot 'A'. When I pulled the experimental updated file onto S1 toolbox, it said 'nope' ...'not a real file' ...or something like that. Hence my question on precise location and order of any adding new info into an existing .ins (or .keyswitch) file. I conclude by repeating Im not even sure that 'adding new info' to anything is actually the correct procedure to achieve what I'm looking to do.
Any help on getting this old but still killer synth fully embedded into the Studio Pro matrix would be really appreciated.
My XV-5080 has 4x SR-JV80 and 4x SRX expansion cards in it. I went to the Roland website and used their online tool to create a .ins file, which according to the tool's instructions would create a .ins file containing Patch and Rhythm Preset Banks A~G, and the 4x SRX cards patches & rhythms (if they had rhythms) as well. This absolutely worked, and I took the resulting file and passed it through Lukas's amazing S1toolbox (thanks for this ...such a great resource).
I made sure the XV was correctly set up as an external instrument, pulled it onto a track, opened the SV editor, and dropped the 'toolboxed' file and ...wham, the patches and drum kits were there. My problem is that the data related to 4x SR-JV80 expansion cards is not included, and the efforts I've made to learn how to get 100% of the preset and expansion card patches and kits into the XV's SV list haven't been successful.
Q1 - if you have data in the SV editor window, and you drag another file onto the window (presumably to add the new info to the existing info) ...the new info wipes the previous info out. Is that correct (AI says yes and no, depending on its mood)
Q2 - assuming that you can't drag-to-add, is there a correct process that allows you to copy new info into the SV editor that ends up with the desired result?
Q3 - if neither drag-to-add, or copy/paste works, is there info that provides the exact syntax and location within the doc for new data to be entered into the .ins file ...so that I could update the .ins file from the roland site such that it would also now include the data for the 4x SR-JV80 cards, as well as all the previously correct and working patch and kit data?
Q4 - If none of the approaches above is correct ...pointing me towards 'how to do it right' would be greatly appreciated.
Q5A - Am I correct that each external device (XV in my case) can have a single SV file associated with it? (If I'm wrong...and the XV can have more than 1 SV file associated and recallable, then maybe I'd have the big Roland sourced .ins file (which got 'toolboxed'), but then I'd toolbox the .ins files for each of the individual SR-JV80 cards and access each of them when I want by calling up there SV files??
Q5B - in attempting to test my theory that I could use the individual toolboxed .ins files for each of the 4 SR-JV80 cards, I discovered that while the files were correctly recognized by SV, and correctly displayed the patch names/numbers for the card in question, when I used SV to recall patches, the patches that the XV actually recalled were all in the 'A' (first) SR-JV80 expansion card slot. For clarity ...I dropped the toolboxed .ins file for the SR-JV80-17 (which is physically installed in C [third] expansion slot), and when I selected sounds to play using SV, it recalled the corresponding patch from 'A slot', not 'C slot'.
Comment: I have the XV-5080 and Studio Pro manuals. I have the XV bank and patch tables in front of me, and so, would use that info to update either the .ins files or the .keyswitch files in a text editor if this helped, but the bit of experimentation I did (being very careful to make sure the numbers I used were accurate to the XV manual) ...was not successful. The file I modified was updated to include the manual-sourced info on patches 1-128, 129-256, and rhythm bank for SR-JV80 slot 'A'. When I pulled the experimental updated file onto S1 toolbox, it said 'nope' ...'not a real file' ...or something like that. Hence my question on precise location and order of any adding new info into an existing .ins (or .keyswitch) file. I conclude by repeating Im not even sure that 'adding new info' to anything is actually the correct procedure to achieve what I'm looking to do.
Any help on getting this old but still killer synth fully embedded into the Studio Pro matrix would be really appreciated.
