Reabank patch order - display as written

[y4Nn]

Hi folks,

Up to 6.04 reabank patch lists were shown in ReaControlMIDI as written. That means that you could have for example:

Bank MSB LSB Bank-Name
12 PATCH 13 - Pad
55 PATCH56 - Pad
4 PATCH 5 - Organ
92 PATCH 93 - Organ

This appeared exactly in the order chosen when building the file.
This was very useful to make groups of presets by category whichever their order in the actual synth or effects - without having a lot of patch moving in a synth librarian for example
Since 6.05, Reaper re-build the patch list in ascending order 0 to 127.
Maybe some would disagree, but I think it would be a good thing to restore the previous patch order way.

Sadly, this has not been changed in 6.06.
I've re-installed 6.04.
Hard to think that I'm the only guy in the universe to use reabank files to sort presets by category...
Anyway...

Take care, stay home!
Yann

[TechDAWg]

A while ago I created a Reabank text file for my Yamaha DGX-640. I put XG Drum Bank as the second bank after the XG General Midi Bank at the top of the list. It appeared second in the Bank list in ReaControlMIDI. One day it started appearing as the last bank in the list. Since it was a minor problem, I didn't try to find out why.

Thanks to you now I know why. So I reinstalled 6.04 just like you did. Hope they'll put that back in a future version.

In fact I think they should redo the reabanks so we can create our own Virtual Banks. This way, we could organise the list by instrument categories. For example I would have Acoustic Pianos, Electric Pianos, Bass, Strings etc... banks. That would make it easier to choose the instrument we want for a track.

[y4Nn]

Since then, I've found out that it is possible to install the latest version of Reaper and to overwrite the reacontrolmidi.dll with the old one from 6.04.
You can even have the old and new in the same directory if you rename one, but it is confusing because they appear with the same name in reaper plugin list.
Hope this helps...
Yann

[DarkStar]

Select one in the FX list, right-click >> Rename ...

[y4Nn]

Thanks you BlackStar! It's a shame I've not even tried that...

[y4Nn]

Happy to see that this issue had been addressed in 6.09.
Thank you Reaper developers!
Yann