How to browse sounds more easily in SS2/ST2

[Mallory]

If like me you would like to browse through all the multitude of sounds in SS2 and ST2 but find that clicking on the SS2/ST2 screen to be a bit laborious, if not to say rather fiddly in fact, then this tip should meet with your approval I hope

Both SS2 and ST2 support browsing through the library of sounds by responding to user-specified MIDI note numbers. This is documented in both manuals (though slightly mysteriously in the case of SS2 due to a reference to the missing section 3.12)

You need to locate the files "SS2Pref.txt" and "ST2Pref.txt" on your hard disk. The 1st 3 lines of each file contain as follows:

BrowseDown=-1
BrowseLoad=-1
BrowseUp=-1

I decided to use MIDI note numbers 120-122 (C-9, C#-9 and D-9) and thus I edited those 3 lines to:

BrowseDown=122
BrowseLoad=121
BrowseUp=120

Upon reloading ST2 and SS2 I find that those notes do indeed browse up and down through all sounds & presets and load when requested.

The best thing might be to program a controller on your MIDI ctrlr keyboard to send those notes. Either that, or choose note numbers at whichever end of your keyboard you use least.

Btw, the sound/patch is always loaded in the currently highlighted part.

[harmony gardens]

Nice tip Mallory

[telebunke]

That's really a nice tip. Is there also a way to assign this funtion to another MIDI controller message?

tele

[Kim Lajoie]

They can only me MIDI notes (in this release, who knows what the future will bring?!). However, if you've got a flexible MIDI controller, you may be able to configure front-panel buttons to send MIDI note messages. That'd be pretty cool.

Forever,




Kim.

[chisel]

You can do this with the Evolution UC-33e. Problem is the way SS2 implements this feature, pressing 'up' or 'down' scrolls through EVERY preset including the children. It would be a lot nicer if you could assign left/right controls to collapse/expand the folders and up/down controls to scroll through only what is expanded. This way, I could start at the top of the list, press 'down' until I get to the section I want to expand, then press 'right' to open that section, then press 'down' to select the preset, then maybe press 'right' to expand the child presets under the parent, and finally press 'select' to load the preset. I think someone mentioned this method here before. IMO, this would be the ideal solution for using MIDI to traverse menus.

Peace Out \/
Chisel

[Chrisma]

Great tip. Can't wait ot program my Keystation Pro 88 to do this.