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The updated synthesizer improves preset management and sharing of presets across different studios.
Copy & Paste
The copy and paste buttons now use the system clipboard, so you can transfer programs between multiple instances of Sprike. You could also paste them into a text editor.
Editing Programs
Sprike now coordinates with other open instances. If a program was edited and saved in one instance, other instances will load it and update their menu accordingly. If the "Save" button turns pink, it indicates that the current program needs to be saved or copied elsewhere (or it may be lost).
Importing Custom Sounds Saved In Other Studios
The DAW (or rack module) restores the custom program in its original place in the menu, whether it is available in your studio as a local preset or not. If you don't save it it will be lost when the arangement is closed. You can copy/paste and save it, if you want to add it permanently to your own presets.
If you create an arrangement with custom Sprike sounds, you should use the Sprike (Fixed) fixed-channel variant of the Sprike device description (available in the Repository). You need to edit the sound in Sprike and set category and playing ranges in Synfire manually.
Never save a custom sound to a bank that includes factory presets.
Sat, 2025-05-10 - 10:39 Permalink
If you installed correctly there should be all the sound names - not INIT X
Sat, 2025-05-10 - 10:55 Permalink
The new Copy & Paste functionality via clipboard does not work properly for me. I want to build up a patch list in Bank 1. The fist patch works fine via copy & paste, but If I try to copy & paste a second sound the fist one is gone. It shows (and sounds) INIT again.
Sat, 2025-05-10 - 12:49 Permalink
Copy/paste goes like this:
- Select slot to copy
- Press Copy
- Select target slot (which will be replaced)
- Press Paste
- Press Save (to save the program to your presets in that slot)
Saving is required to confirm you really want to replace that slot in your local presets database.
Installation requires you install from the pkg or msi package. The sounds are small text files installed in your user folder.
Sat, 2025-05-10 - 13:13 Permalink
Yes, I just found that out, too. I need to press Save after every Paste operation, even if the Sprike instance remains open all the time. I thought, I would need to save before closing it. But ok.
Saving is required to confirm you really want to replace that slot in your local presets database.
I mean, why would I do a Paste operation if I didn't want to replace the slot? Seems a bit redundant to me.
Also: I think, the Save button should not turn red, if I just press the Copy button. Copy doesn't change anything at the patch (at least I hope so)
Sat, 2025-05-10 - 13:52 Permalink
Paste could be an immediate save if the user was aware that they are destructively editing their local preset database (every preset is a single independent file). Maybe it should.
There are a few oddities still. The open source code of Sprike is a hot mess with bad modularisation. Almost everything is global and has side effects. It's a pain to maintain.
Sat, 2025-05-10 - 14:20 Permalink
It's free code, so you could aspect to get bad coding :-)
No sounds still in Sprike to get
Of course there is no quality synth to get for free, only the sun goes up for free.
Using Mux modulair can it be used free to make your own synth ?, but then you have quality sounds
Sat, 2025-05-10 - 18:49 Permalink
Update 1.9.1 is ready. Saves preset after paste now. No other changes.