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Title: Save presets in a user-readable format?
Post by: mkoch on May 24, 2020, 01:29:39 pm

Hello,

is there any way to save a preset in a user-readable format?
For example *.txt or *.csv or *.json ?
Or is there a way to translate a *.mbprojz file into one of the above formats?
Or is it known how to decode the *.mbprojz file?

Thanks,
Michael

Title: Re: Save presets in a user-readable format?
Post by: DrJustice on May 24, 2020, 04:51:22 pm

Rename *.mbprojz to *.zip and you'll find plain text serialized data inside the archive. Same for the *.mbpz files. The former is a "project" packing many patches together  and the latter is a single patch.

Title: Re: Save presets in a user-readable format?
Post by: STM on May 24, 2020, 07:54:47 pm

Thanks! Good to know.
Now we only need a way to view, change and send this data to the MxB  ;)

Title: Re: Save presets in a user-readable format?
Post by: mkoch on May 24, 2020, 09:32:43 pm

Quote from: DrJustice on May 24, 2020, 04:51:22 pm

Rename *.mbprojz to *.zip and you'll find plain text serialized data inside the archive. Same for the *.mbpz files. The former is a "project" packing many patches together  and the latter is a single patch.

ok, that did work. But is it known which number is for which Parameter?

Michael

Title: Re: Save presets in a user-readable format?
Post by: DrJustice on May 24, 2020, 10:06:14 pm

The format is not known.

Now, who's gonna be the first to reverse engineer it?  ;D

Not that it would be that useful...

Title: Re: Save presets in a user-readable format?
Post by: mkoch on May 24, 2020, 10:40:06 pm

Quote from: DrJustice on May 24, 2020, 10:06:14 pm

The format is not known.

Now, who's gonna be the first to reverse engineer it?  ;D

Not that it would be that useful...

In my opinion that would be very useful. I want to understand how a sound was created. Which potentiometers are used, and which are not used? I need about one hour to analyze a preset, if I write it all down by hand. It is frustrating to do this by hand if the same thing could be done by software in less than a second.

Michael

Title: Re: Save presets in a user-readable format?
Post by: DrJustice on May 25, 2020, 12:35:38 am

Quote from: mkoch on May 24, 2020, 10:40:06 pm

In my opinion that would be very useful.
..

Of course. Sorry for generalizing.

I agree that being able to analyze patches is useful. My hope is still for a typical sysex protcol, documented and all, which would allow patch editing and transfers. Then we could get an editor going.

Title: Re: Save presets in a user-readable format?
Post by: mkoch on May 25, 2020, 09:47:46 am

Is it normal that it takes about one minute to transfer all 256 patches? Is it possible to transfer only one patch from the MatrixBrute to the PC software?

Michael

Title: Re: Save presets in a user-readable format?
Post by: DrJustice on May 25, 2020, 12:21:36 pm

You can drag a single matrix cell (patch) across and you can drag a single row (16 patches, just grab the letter of the row) across. That works both ways.

Title: Re: Save presets in a user-readable format?
Post by: mkoch on May 25, 2020, 09:53:27 pm

Quote from: DrJustice on May 25, 2020, 12:21:36 pm

You can drag a single matrix cell (patch) across and you can drag a single row (16 patches, just grab the letter of the row) across. That works both ways.

Thank you, now I know how that works.

Michael