Zebra2 modulation re-mapper

[EdHarvey]

Imagine the scene...

A sound designer toiling away late at night.
After hours of patient work, a patch is nearing completion.
It has complex and beautiful sound variations on all the major modulation sources.
All is good with the world....

..Until the designer mutters to himself,
"You know, I think this might be better if the ModWheel and Aftertouch were swapped"



If you've ever been in this situation, you'll know the pain.
The mod assignments may be on the lower matrix or any number of modules (and their 'sub-pages'); finding them all and modifying each in turn is tedious and error-prone


But now there is a quick(ish) and easy(ish) solution.

It's Windows only (I can't afford a Mac),
It's not pretty (it's a command-line tool so it has no helpful UI),
but it works....

The "Zebra2 Modulation Remapper".
(Ed's imaginative naming at its best)

Zebra2ModRemap.zip

Code: Select all

Usage: ZebraModRemap -i patch.h2p -o remapped_patch.h2p ModWhl=ATouch ATouch=ModWhl
       ZebraModRemap -i c:\zebra --recurse -o "c:\zebra remapped"  atouch=xpress

  -i, --input      Required. Input file or directory to read.

  -r, --recurse    Recurse Subdirectories.

  -o, --output     Output to write. If not specified, original files
                   will be backed-up.

  --help           Display this help screen.


  Mappings:     Original=New

        valid map options:
                ModWhl, PitchW, ATouch, Breath, Xpress,
                Velocity, Gate, KeyFol, KeyFol2,
                LfoG1, LfoG2,
                Lfo1, Lfo2, Lfo3, Lfo4,
                Env1, Env2, Env3, Env4,
                MSEG1, MSEG2, MSEG3, MSEG4,
                MMix1, MMix2, MMix3, MMix4
                MMap1, MMap2, MMap3, MMap4,
                ArpMod, ArpMd2,
                none (removes current mapping)

I'll write up a detailed how-to in the morning - It's after midnight, and my brain has turned into a pumpkin

[EvilDragon]

So, slightly better than a find&replace in text editor?

[Howard]

Been there much too often! I feel your pain, Ed.

I requested a global MIDI CC/AT table a few times in recent years, but it never become top priority.
I'll write a new feature request... thanks for the reminder

[EdHarvey]

So, slightly better than a find&replace in text editor?

Yeah, that's how I used to do it. It's painful.

The tool has a few advantages..

• It doesn't make mistakes! (unlike me )
• It always makes a backup, if required (again, unlike me!)
• It can do multiple remappings in one hit
• It's not limited to midi controls - it can remap any mod source
  (so you can, for example, change a Lfo to a LfoG)
• It can 'batch process' entire directories at a time. This was really useful recently for a friend who doesn't have aftertouch - I remapped his entire library of about 6000 patches to use the expression pedal instead.
  It took about 30 seconds (including the time to type the command line! )

[EvilDragon]

Pretty nifty, yep.