Is there any way to upgrade the presets of older devices to

Basic Pitch · Post by **Basic Pitch** » Tue Mar 16, 2004 10:34 am

Greetings all,

I am at work at the moment so cant test this but I was just curious, on some older devices, three-0-three, goofy etc that use the older patch windows, lets say I were to erase the .pre for both of these items, if I saved a brand new .pre with my own patches would it change to the newer patch menu?

Not that I have any real issues with the older windows, but I wassnt around when that was the common interface for presets, I am more used to the newer face. No biggie just curious

Cheers!

johnbowen · Post by **johnbowen** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 11:31 am

Yes, I believe you can just load the old presets from the new preset list, and you will be asked some questions like, "This is an older file, do you want to load?". It should then go through a quick conversion routine.

Ben Walker · Post by **Ben Walker** » Tue Mar 23, 2004 8:40 am

Actually, if I understand the question correctly then the answer is No.

If the device was made with the older version of Scope before the new type of presets were introduced then I don't think you can convert old style to new style, or even start afresh with the new style presets. Mod 1 presets, for example, will always be in Old style format.

The conversion that John is talking about can only be done if the device itself has been updated to use the new type of preset list - then you can open the oldstyle list in the new format, I think.

Ben

Basic Pitch · Post by **Basic Pitch** » Tue Mar 23, 2004 10:57 am

I see, thanks much both

I hate to sound silly, but being a new user of the Scope platform, visually I am used to the new preset style lists, the old list throws me off a little in the function areas when I am trying towork quickly.

Cheers!

Shayne White · Post by **Shayne White** » Tue Mar 23, 2004 12:21 pm

The old ones really were horrible. I'm glad you weren't around long enough to have to deal with them too much!

at0m · Post by **at0m** » Wed Mar 24, 2004 7:54 pm

As Ben Walker says, it can only be done for example Inferno, which has been updated from 2.04 to 3.1c, and so if you made any presets with the 2.04 version you can load the preset file into Inferno 3.1c preset list. SFP will convert the preset list to the new version physically moving all buttons to all old settings and resaving preset per preset (it's an automated process). You then have to manually save the new preset file.

The old preset list was slow to load, but it had an override on voice count, per preset. It was possible for example to save a preset with 0 voices, which is nice to offload dsp remotely, without removing the device or going to SFP. Also the old preset list was usually saved within the device...