Features requested for Style Copy Operations

[sevinunu]

Hi there, first of all thanks for the great work on this software!!! I hope you can keep up with it.
Here are some remarks and my personal feedback including some needed improvements:
I will focus on Styles of Pa5X.
1) since OS 1.3 the increased memory useage is not reflected in your latest build.
Example: Korg Pa5X Style banks can have more than 30 pages, means more than 300 Styles per bank
The KPM throws an error when trying to import such a bank exceeding 300 styles, but we need in fact the KPM to have more pages than 30, in order to compile several style sets and then load them in the Korg to filter out what should be kept or what is garbage to be deleted.
2)Please offer an option to select a pre-editing mode, which is not bound to any size or memory limits, so that we can compile for example 20GB of Styles and use this mode to sort, deduplicate, filter and select what is useful then create style banks conform to what can be pushed to the Korg.
3)Copy operations:please offer the option of Select all, or like in windows hold shift and select from X to Y then paste. It is a nightmare to click bit by bit for copy operations.
4) Renaming options: please offer a global renaming option for styles at least. This can help us delete some chars which may cause troubles, have a better sorting to spot duplicates.Add selectable methods of duplicates auto renaming to avoid Korg keyboard throwing an error when loading 2 styles with the same name into the same bank.For example the user can select: Add-Suffix pattern:A+Nr. incremental.
5)Adding expert deduplication modes: for example based on sounds used, size, length, intros & Vars checking indepth for true duplicates and not only by name. Showing identical duplicates or duplicates where only the tempo is different
6)Adding an option to not only find out duplicates but remove them at once or even based on certain criteria.
7)Better recognition of used sound and samples during copying to automatically remap sound to copied styles instead of having sound duplicates loaded.
Last but not least: please let the GUI be expandable to full monitor size or multi-displays. It helps avoiding clicking mistakes while scrolling could be better.
I hope this helps and your engineers will like these challenges and hope more to see them coming up during your next release(s).
THANK You in advance.
Best regards from a happy user!

[Admin]

Hi,

Thank you for the feedback. Here are some clarifications which I hope would help clarify a few things.

1) since OS 1.3 the increased memory useage is not reflected in your latest build.
Example: Korg Pa5X Style banks can have more than 30 pages, means more than 300 Styles per bank.

KPM has been reflected to support OS 1.3 Memory size. However, what you are referring to is not about MEMORY size, but rather the number of PAGES you could have per folder. In reality the 5X has no limit and we find this rather unnecessary and practically not feasible to provide unlimited amount of items per folder. It simply complicates the process of categorizing and finding a single Style amongst soo many other styles. That's why we've limited it to 300 items per Folder.
You can simply create a NEW Folder/Bank and continue adding them there. It's a better workflow of categorizing your Styles.

2)Please offer an option to select a pre-editing mode, which is not bound to any size or memory limits, so that we can compile for example 20GB of Styles and use this mode to sort, deduplicate, filter and select what is useful then create style banks conform to what can be pushed to the Korg.

You can already achieve this, by loading the SET on the RIGHT Side and selecting what you need to be copied on to the left side. No need to have 20GB of space available when the KB takes 4GB's.

3)Copy operations:please offer the option of Select all, or like in windows hold shift and select from X to Y then paste. It is a nightmare to click bit by bit for copy operations.

You can already do that
Hold CTRL+CLICK to select multiple items. Or copy items by page or bank.

4) Renaming options: please offer a global renaming option for styles at least. This can help us delete some chars which may cause troubles, have a better sorting to spot duplicates.Add selectable methods of duplicates auto renaming to avoid Korg keyboard throwing an error when loading 2 styles with the same name into the same bank.For example the user can select: Add-Suffix pattern:A+Nr. incremental.

We do have extensive editing for Sample Names via the SAMPLE Manager.
However, also an AUTO Increment feature for Style/Perf/Pad names using the # button available on the UI.
Here's a Video: https://youtu.be/4Em2yje36CA

5)Adding expert deduplication modes: for example based on sounds used, size, length, intros & Vars checking indepth for true duplicates and not only by name. Showing identical duplicates or duplicates where only the tempo is different.

This is a very specific request that would suit probably only %1 of user base. We would need to evaluate if such effort is worth while implementing based on user request.

6)Adding an option to not only find out duplicates but remove them at once or even based on certain criteria.

This could be possible, however, it would make it difficult to know which one is an ORIGINAL and which one is the Duplicate that you want to get rid of ?
That's why a REPORT provides the USER with the info and it is down to the USER to delete accordingly.

7)Better recognition of used sound and samples during copying to automatically remap sound to copied styles instead of having sound duplicates loaded.

Our remapping and auto detection is already pretty good and as best as it could get really. What people don't tend to realize when there are duplicates is that they are NOT really duplicates. It may seem as the same sound on the outside, but really internally there are different parameters and that's why it is treated/copied as a new sound rather than remapped.

Last but not least: please let the GUI be expandable to full monitor size or multi-displays. It helps avoiding clicking mistakes while scrolling could be better.

As much as we agree on this one, there are still way too many users using laptops with small screen resolutions where the current size barely fits.
And to accommodate some higher res screens, means a lot of empty space just to fill the screen. There really is no need to fill the screen and create unnecessary empty space in between buttons/knobs/etc...