Version 1.6 adds the possibillity to create patch list files.
Version 1.5 fixes a bug in 1.4 that seemingly trashed some (all ?) version 1.1 patches. I also added a batch conversion button.
PatCon can assist in upgrading pre 210 nord modular
patches into 301 format. Well not exactly true, but read on ...
This is a PC program, for the Mac community I can only offer the
conversion algorithm(in Borland's object Pascal)
The program is mainly a pch file browser, but it has three buttons to do the
version upgrading for you.
The first one, upgrade to 210 will convert the selected patch file to 210.
The second button, upgrade to 301, starts with the same thing. But after
conversion it will open the patch in the 3.0x editor. From there you can save
the patch to complete the conversion process.
The third button, upgrade all to 210, will convert all the patches that are
visible in the rightmost listbox into 210
It is also possible to dubble click a patch file in the browser, this will
convert the patch to 301.
So how does one use this tool, my suggestion is that you
open the modular editor 301, then you start PatCon and search for a patch that
you want to convert. Double click the patch so it will be ugraded from whatever
to version 2.10 (hopefully not downgraded, but the program does a basic
security check for this condition). After conversion the patch will be sent to
your editor, when you save it there it will be upgraded to versio 3.0.
Alternativly you could choose to only upgrade the patch to 210. In this case
you don't have to open the nord modular editor, and you will have to click the
'upgrade to 210' button (instead of double clicking the patch).
After the patch is converted the version display will read 210, this is a known
problem that is not easily fixed. If you want to be sure whether the conversion
succeeded you can click some other patch, and then back to the patch you want
to be sure of. The version number will then be re-read from the patch and
should reflect the actual patch version then.
The first time that you try to use the modular editor from the PatCon program,
you will be asked to supply a filename for the editor program to use. You can
use the Browse button to point PatCon to your modular editor program (which
usualy is c:\Program Files\Clavia\Modlar editor 3\ModularEditor3.exe). You can
also click the Options button to set the modular editor.
When you want to send a patch to the modular editor without upgrading it you
can click the Edit button.
The version string in the patch header is set to 210.
type 51, Filter E needs an extra control sometimes, it will be added then.
type 60, the envelope follower from 110, is converted into type 71, the current
envelope follower.
type 66, the control signal mixer needs an extra control sometimes. it will be
added then.
type 93, the old inverter from 110 does no longer exist, it is converted into
type 66, a control signal mixer - with some appropriate settings selected.
type 94, the Stereo chorus, needs an extra control sometimes. it will be added
then.
type 95, the PercOsc, needs a few extra controls sometimes, they will be added
then.
Version 1.1 patches did not always (never ?) have an item Retrig= in the header
section, when such a line is not found it will be added to the end of the
header section. Patches that do not have this item will show up empty in the
version 3.03 editor