Single Kit file as Startup file?

[twisted.mellow]

Hi all,

A quick question and something that's frustrating me... can we use a single kit file as the Startup file somehow? I've tried but it keeps showing me the 100 kits. I only use about 5 kits and I really don't want to know about the others. I'd rather store them in single kit files so I can have (for example) all sounds for one kit AND the dsnd in a single folder. Another folder with sounds and a single dsnd in it, etc. etc.

Can't seem to find anything by searching this forum...

[GenuineHuman]

You delete DrumIt.dkit and copy single .dkit file (see this for empty.dkit: http://www.2box-forum.com/index.php/topic,1121.msg10681.html#msg10681) inside the folder with dsdn files. I haven't tried that but it should work.

[signature]

yes i have some examples with the kit, or a few kits, in a folder with the required dsnds.

[twisted.mellow]

Sorry, should have been a bit clearer. Not an easy thing to explain!

I have a single kit inside a folder all working ok, but I want to use a single kit as the startup dkit, instead of one with 100 kits in it. I've tried putting a single kit dkit in the root and renaming it to drumitinit.dkit but it still just shows the default 100 kits.

Very odd!

[GenuineHuman]

Kits are stored in the Drumit.dkit, not Drumitinit.dkit. Drumitinit.dkit is just a backup file with original settings or something like that. Try deleting Drumit.dkit from the module. And make a backup before you delete.

[AA_]

Kits are stored in the Drumit.dkit, not Drumitinit.dkit. Drumitinit.dkit is just a backup file with original settings or something like that. Try deleting Drumit.dkit from the module. And make a backup before you delete.

STOP!
This file contains the unit settings and the (internal) kitbank. do not delete this file!

[GenuineHuman]

You'd configure a fresh drumit.dkit file from scratch (empty drumit.dkit). But it doesn't really work and it looks like 100 kits are "hardcoded" in the OS.

[twisted.mellow]

Exactly. I know the KIT page info is stored in the DrumIt file, so clearly that needs to be replaced with something. I wouldn't mind setting it up again if I got a DrumIt file with only one kit in it - but it doesn't look to be the case. It's still got 100 blank kits in it even if I put the blank one kit file there and rename it to DrumIt.dkit.

Damn... something for the next version request I guess... Even if we had a way to put the single kit files FIRST.

[Deve Loper]

Hi. Single kits can be copied to any program  in the kit bank file. So if you want a single kit file first, select it, press SAVE choose the kit number you want to save it t to and press COPY.
Deve.

[twisted.mellow]

Hi Deve Loper! I just love the fact that the software guy is on here and LISTENS to the customers

As a software engineer myself (C, C++ and C#), I understand that these things aren't easily changed and you have to consider the system as a whole with every small alteration you make. Thanks for an outstanding and stable product!

Yes, you are right - I can copy the kits. However, this requires me to copy them back and forth if I make changes - it would be much easier and manageable if we could have either the single kit startup file OR put single kits first... obviously that would require a "setting" to turn a feature like that on.

Thanks for listening!

P.S. Out of curiosity, what language is the module firmware written in?

Ian