What's the easiest way to save .pcg files on a Mac?

perkins3@llnl.gov · Post by **perkins3@llnl.gov** » Sun Feb 10, 2013 3:50 am

Hi Guys -- looking for a simple Mac OSX patch Librarian for my Triton Studio.

In fact, even easier -- really just need to save my .pcg dumps on my Mac from one Triton Studio and then dump them to my second Triton Studio. I appreciate I can do a SysEx dump from one to the other via MIDI but the KB's are in differet locations (home and rehearsal studio). Easier to just dump to the Mac laptop and then transfer to the second one at the other end. Also will have backup files on the Mac

(I have a MIDI -> USB connector of course)

Any suggestions? And thanks for any replies!!

billbaker · Post by **billbaker** » Thu Apr 25, 2013 7:00 pm

Because the Studio wants to see things on floppy disc, you might want to consider picking up a USB/floppy disc drive @ ~$20-25 from Best Buy or Office Depot (computer aisle). I use one with my Mac for writing KARMA discs. You can load a raw .pcg such as those from the download page here at korgforums without a librarian. If you want to organize or re-order patches from several .pcg files then a librarian is the way to go.

Studio to Studio, if you have a MIDI link to your mac you can use one of several free librarian programs. Either PCG Tools (PC) or LeLibby(JRE) can do it for you - I'm not aware of any native Mac (OS) freeware librarians. TritonLib (PC) AFAIK cannot read the larger .pcg files that result from the studio's larger arp section and the extra banks, but it's great for the Classic version. I believe both LeLibby and PCGTools are scalable depending on the version of the Triton being read. Either way you should be able to store the resulting (new) order to disc and load that way as well with no other interface required.

BB