KORG i30 File Editing with i30 File Editor

An Editing Session Example

Let us focus on Style copying, which is the most tedious operation when undertaken on the Workstation.

Suupose we want to replace, in MYNEWSET.STY, Style C42 Latin Pop 3 by Style C13 Acid Funk extracted from MYOLDSET.STY. How can we achieve this with i30 File Editor?

We open MYNEWSET.SET, then select Style tab (if not already selected).
We open MYOLDSET.SET (Note that Style tab is already selected).
If both windows overlap, we separate them (either with the mouse, or by clicking Tile in the Window menu).
We drag Style cell C13 Acid Funk from MYOLDSET window and drop it onto cell C42 Latin Pop 3 of MYNEWSET window.
We get message: "Acid Funk DRUMS track calls Program Acid Drum non-existent in MYNEWSET. Redirect to another Program?"
We click Yes, then select R31 GM Kit 3.
A new message appears: "Acid Funk BASS track calls Program Acid Slap non-existent in MYNEWSET. Redirect to another Program?"
We click Yes, then select F75 Slap Bass 4.

Of course, if we can’t find, in MYNEWSET, satisfactory Programs as replacements for Acid Drum and/or Acid Slap, we should answer Cancel (which would abort the copying process) and take care of Programs before attempting transferring the Style again.

Note: By double-clicking Style cell C13 Acid Funk, we could have foreseen this potential problem!

So, let’s try to copy Program R57 Acid Drum from MYOLDSET to MYNEWSET:

We select Programs tabs and R Banks in both Sets windows.

By looking at Programs grid in the MYNEWSET window, we can immediately see that, although there are no empty cells (not named, dark background), some Drum Kits are not called by any Item (blue inked characters), such as R54 User Kit 4 in our example.
So we just have to drag R57 Acid Drum cell from MYOLDSET and drop it into R54 cell in MYNEWSET.

We repeat the same process for copying Acid Slap into an unused Program cell in MYNEWSET.
Now we can resume copying Style C13 Acid Funk (5 first steps above). i30 File Editor finds that all Programs called by the copied Style exist somewhere in MYNEWSET and fixes Calls References if necessary.
We can verify the result by double-clicking C42 Acid Funk in MYNEWSET.

Note 1: Safety of the above-described process supposes uniqueness of Items Names. That’s the reason why, all along the editing session, i30 File Editor warns the User if it detects duplicate Names in Arrangements, Styles and Programs that belong to an open Set. A good idea is to change the Names of recently pasted Items as soon as possible.

Note 2: The above-described tasks are even easier with a listing of the initial configuration of each Set involved in the editing process, available with the various Report commands in i30 File Editor .

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