Universal librarian for multiple synths?

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A bit of background: I’m a synth enthusiast and a real preset guy. Right now my collection is a Prophet Rev2, Prophet 6, Moog Matriarch, Subsequent 37, UB-Xa and a Dreadbox Artemis — and a UDO Super 6 and OB-6 are on their way to join the family soon.

I love using artist preset packs and saving my own, but I could never find a free librarian that gave me the flexibility I actually wanted. And the paid ones felt too expensive for what they offered.

So I ended up building my own, which I now use daily. It lets me do everything I need: see all the presets and banks on a synth, move them around, rename them with the changes applied to the synth live, and dump selected presets or whole banks off the synth. I don’t have to load a full bank back in either — I can pick specific presets and send them to specific slots.

Right now I support that full functionality on four synths: Prophet 6, Prophet Rev2, Subsequent 37 and UB-Xa. Once my Super 6 and OB-6 arrive I’ll add them too. The Dreadbox Artemis is a bit different — its firmware doesn’t allow the same kind of deep support, so rather than juggle two apps, I built a standard SysEx librarian mode right into mine: load banks into it or dump banks out of it, like any basic free librarian.

I put together a short video showing the key features.



Is this something anyone else would find useful, or is it just me?

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Useful - but you don't own the same synths as me... :)

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