There are many (if not most) softsynths that have a fixed location for user patches.lalo wrote:thanks, but i think this is a very unconfortable issue. mostly if you want/have to work on your projects on different machines you need to port all your custom or used patches in the song project directory.Ingonator wrote: I reported this myself but it seems to be necessary to use the default location for your own patches.
If you got to the Browser (the corresponding button above "Edit") and then right-click on the "user library" entry at the left of the browser in the right-click menu you will find "Reveal in Explorer" which will open the default loctaion for user patches.
I think the developers should think seriously about this.
thanks
Anyway i just had another look at the patch browser in Largo. If you open the browser (button above "edit") and right-click at "User Library" (at the left of the browser) besides "Reveal in Explorer" there is an entry called "Add Scan folder..." where you could add another location for patches.
It is maybe necessary to use "Refresh" or "Refresh All" from te right-click menu.
After that the left part of the Largo browser should have three entries called "Local Library", "User Library" and the name of you new folder. By clicking on those entries you could open the included patches.
Just tested this myself and it seems to work. Somehow i seemed to have ignored that feature to create your own locations. This is also contained with the browser of PPG Wave 3.V.
This is a quote from the Largo manual concerning Preset locations (page 19 of the english manual):
At my computer (Windows 7 64-bit) the User location seems to be at:The File Browser shows at least the content of the default Largo Program locations on disk. They are called Local Library (accessible for all users of the particular computer) and User Library (accessible only for the current user) respectively and are located in the following locations (note that folder names might be localized or personalized on your operating system version. Those folder names appear in [brackets]):
Presets Location on a Mac computer:
Local Library: /Library/Audio/Presets/Waldorf/Largo/
User Library: [User home directory]/Library/ Audio/Presets/Waldorf/Largo/
Preset Location on a Windows computer:
Please note that we have changed the location of the Largo factory sounds. They are installed in the Local
Library folder as written below. If you like, you can overwrite these sounds with your existing sound library in the Windows Explorer.
Local Library: [Largo installation path]\Waldorf\Largo Sounds
User Library: [Documents And Settings]\[User home directory]\[Application Data]\Waldorf\Largo\
Further folders can be added and removed at will but we strongly recommend to not add an entire hard disk or other huge folder structure since scanning those might take a very long time and if the number of found items is huge, Largo might behave unpredictable.
Users\Your Name\AppData\Roaming\Waldorf\Largo\
So maybe the manual has to be updated with this. Maby e it is different in other Windows versions.
A good way to find it is the "Reveal in Explorer" feature in the browser.
About the right-click menu in the left part of the browser (page 20):
• Reveal in Finder [Mac] / Reveal in Explorer [Windows] – reveals the selected files or folders
in a Finder [Mac] or Explorer [Windows] window.
• Add Scan Folder... – shows a folder select dialog to select a folder that is scanned for folders and
files with known file types and the result is added to the File Browser view. No files are copied by this command, the selected folder is only added to the view tree. All added scan folders are stored in Largo's preferences when Largo is closed and they are added to the File Browser automatically on subsequent launches.
• Remove Scan Folder – removes the selected toplevel folder from the list of scanned folders if
possible. The main library folders Local Library and User Library cannot be removed, only the custom scan folders can.
• Refresh – refreshes the content of the selected folder or the enclosing folder if a file is selected.
• Refresh All – refreshes the content of all folders.
Ingo
