P5 preset bank converter (beta)

[MDCragg]

Hey,
i wrote that thing.. ages ago.. trying to remember.
I just downloaded that build from the website and tried it to check apple didn't break stuff again with some new security system. At least on sequoia here it's running fine.
Which leaves us with two obvious causes for the error.
Either like Urs suggested a permissions problem,
or there is something unusual about the wav file that crashes the wav loader.
Since the location seems to be the desktop a permissions issue seems unlikely. (Your user should be allowed to write files there)
My suggestion would be to resave the wav file as super boring 44.1K 16bit PCM wav using something like Audacity.
The wav loader code we used back then was kind of primitive. Maybe something fancy or wrong in the file confuses the loader. Who knows.
You could save it to documents instead of the desktop though i don't think that makes any difference.
If that doesn't help you could start the converter via the terminal. Maybe its logging tells us what the problem is.
For that just open a terminal window, drag the converter executable in there and complete the path till you've got something like yourPath/P5_2_R5Converter_2021_04_22/Mac/Converter.app/Contents/MacOS/Converter.
Then hit enter and the converter should start and log.

Thank you for the response!

I tried some of those things and it continued to fail. I can have another go at it though.

If you're interested, I could send you the .wav file to see if you can convert it then return the output. There are some nice patches in it.

[Tarkus S]

Yes, would be interesting to see if the problem also happens on my machine. I'll PM you

[brick]

Urs, will this utility work for the Rev.4 ?

[Tarkus S]

To keep the people in this thread in the loop: The problem was indeed the bit depth of the samples in the wav which was 32 instead of plain old 16. I omitted to add a proper error message back then. Or just make it able to deal with other bit depths. Sorry for that. The converter was more a "wouldn't it be cool if we could load old prophet preset tapes and sysex" kind of idea than the serious software engineering we usually do^^

Regarding the Rev.4, i don't think Rev.1-3 and the Rev.4 are sysex compatible.
So we would have to implement a new mapping/conversion just for the Rev.4.
Which could be seen as "stealing the factory library" of a current product. Soo.. yeah, so far we had friendly, respectful relations with Sequential. Maybe lets not stretch that. Correct me if i'm wrong Urs

[Urs]

Yeah. Also probably the reason we won’t extend Repro with Rev 4 compatibility in the near future.

[brick]

Fair enough. Thanks to you both