Prophet X - Overwrite factory memory | Sysex patch edit tutorial

If you receive a bunch of patches (both individual files or whole banks) for your Prophet X, you might not want to have these saved at the same locations they come in.
If you receive a patch that was saved in Bank U2 Patch 90, this will go into THAT memory location on your Prophet X as well, when you transfer it. Unfortunately you can't put it in another memory location when you transfer it. You can of course save it to some place else after you've transferred it to Patch 90 (this example), but only to the 4 different U-banks.
UNLESS.... you edit the sysex file itself before transferring it to your own PX. By doing so you can set it to go exactly where you want. You can even overwrite the factory patches if you want. All banks and patches U1-U4, F1-F4 and A1-A4 can be overwritten in the sysex transfer.

I'm fully aware there exists several library apps and software for the Prophet X that will help you do this. These costs money. My method is totally free.

In this video I'm using a free binary decoder called HdX to load, inspect, edit and save a sysex file.
I'm using Bome SendSX to transfer the edited sysex file from my computer to my PX.
Both these programs are free.
You can certainly edit the sysex file from within the transfer program itself as well.

[DaraM]

Wow, sounds like you’re expert at explaining disasters.

[daz]

The Wavestation A/D has a similar problem in that a user patch is tied to a specific bank ... transferring the file to the A/D through sysex will automatically allocate the patch to whichever bank is coded in the sysex message ... hopefully this fix might be a way to get around that problem. Nice work 🙂

[jeffevansmusic]

I have the Prophet 12 and it has 400 user patches and 400 factory patches. I am wondering if this approach would also work. I would want to do this for a bank dump of 100 patches though at once. I would love to be able to use the 400 factory locations for other 3rd party banks I have bought. I don't have to save edited sounds either in the factory banks. I tend to edit and play and record with the edited sound. Or save the edit in the user banks as per normal.

[jdmjesus]

You could write a ctrlr panel to do all that, including upload/ download without too much fuss. I made a full editor for the tr rack that I use without too much bother.

[timothydahlin]

Getting level. Remember Emagic SoundDiver?