[yoshimi-user] my answer to a recent enquiry. Thought it should be here
- From: Will Godfrey <willgodfrey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: yoshimi-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2015 16:30:11 +0100
Hello,
I'm a recent Yoshimi "explorer", and I have a couple of questions I don't know
where to ask, if yoshimi-user or yoshimi-devel mailing list or whatever else.
Hi welcome aboard :)
Generally it's best to ask in the users list, that way other people can join in
the discussion if they want to (usually seems to be me that answers though!)
These are my questions:
- What exactly are "presets"? i mean those installed under the path
/usr/local/share/yoshimi/presets
and how can them be used?
Presets are loaded and saved via the copy/paste buffer (the blue C and P
icons). To be really useful you need to create a new directly path. Probably
the best location is in /home/{yourusername}/.config/yoshimi
After this, if you develop (say) a phaser sound you especially like, you can
copy it to the clipboard, and from there save it to a preset. You can then pull
it back whenever you want to.
Having said that, I hardly ever use it myself so had to try to remember how it
worked.
- Why does xmz exported by Yoshimi are so much heavier than the
correspondent
exported by ZynAddSubFX?
We save more of the data than Zyn does. Particularly, if you've loaded a
instrument into a part but then disabled it, when doing a parameter save we
will still include it along with the rest. Also we save all possible 64 parts
if they contain an instrument, even if they are not currently used. Any part
with the default 'Simple Sound' will have nothing but the ID tag so won't take
up much space.
This discussion was had a long time ago, and it was generally agreed that the
increased size of an entire parameter set was relatively unimportant compared
with losing a sound that you might have temporarily disabled.
- My current installation of Yoshimi doesn't read the extra Drum Kits
recently added. Could you say why? (I mean they don't appear in the
instruments list of the bank)
Which drum kits are you having a problem with? I don't know of any issues
myself.
I'm sorry to bother you directly, but I really am new to Yoshimi (and to the
world of open source in general), so I didn't know exactly what to do.
Thank you
--
Will J Godfrey
http://www.musically.me.uk
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Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.
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