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"YOU CAN'T SAVE INDIVIDUAL PATCHES TO DISK USING THE XP alone"

Of course you can. That's what this discussion is all about: Trying to get around having to save single patches as sysex at the beginning of what we have been calling a "dummy song" and then saving the song to disk as either and .svq or .mid file. You get the patch back by playing the songfile into the XP.

"it's possible to save this stuff as sysex files or .MID files (from the editor) and then load them back into your synth one at a time if you like. The thing is, you'd have to be able to convert the sysex (.syx) to .MID"

Precisely this was the question: Do you *have* to convert the sysex to a .mid file? (That's what we're *already* having to do when we just save the sysex in a dummy song using Transfer Data -> Sequencer.)

Is there any way for the editor programs to send the sysex directly to the XP *without* first dumping the sysex into a .mid file (I'm familiar with the sysex-to-.mid programs; they've been around a long time now; what we're looking for is a way to _avoid_ the .mid altogether).

I'm guessing Tracey (and others) would like to be able to view the patch-bank patches on-screen and then perhaps double-click a specific patch (or highlight it and use a drop-down menu) and have it sent to the XP. Can any editor do that?