Electro 4 Program Reference Card
Posted: 31 Oct 2016, 19:38
I recently acquired a Nord Electro 4D 61. So far, I love it. I'm using it to replace an unreliable MainStage rig for light gigging.
The numeric display is fine for me (one more digit than my Juno-106!), except when I want to remember the names of the programs and their contents with my laptop shut off. Nord Sound Manager's HTML sound list export is not very useful to me because of its sequential list format. I had in mind something like the patch reference card I use for my older synths: a grid that corresponds to my mental map of the sounds.
So I wrote a little Python script to transform the Nord export into a format that looks good to me. I thought — who knows? — maybe this would be useful for someone else. I'll attach the script and a sample of the output. You can list the programs from high to low (the default) or low to high, and show just the program name (the default) or add the sample or organ type on a second line.
Please note that the script produces an HTML file that you need to load in a web browser and print. The sample output is an image — I can't upload an HTML attachment.
Here is how to use the script:
The numeric display is fine for me (one more digit than my Juno-106!), except when I want to remember the names of the programs and their contents with my laptop shut off. Nord Sound Manager's HTML sound list export is not very useful to me because of its sequential list format. I had in mind something like the patch reference card I use for my older synths: a grid that corresponds to my mental map of the sounds.
So I wrote a little Python script to transform the Nord export into a format that looks good to me. I thought — who knows? — maybe this would be useful for someone else. I'll attach the script and a sample of the output. You can list the programs from high to low (the default) or low to high, and show just the program name (the default) or add the sample or organ type on a second line.
Please note that the script produces an HTML file that you need to load in a web browser and print. The sample output is an image — I can't upload an HTML attachment.
Here is how to use the script:
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usage: parse_ne4_programlist.py [-h] [-s] [-r] [-o OUTPUTFILE] inputFile
Creates a Nord Electro 4 Program Reference Card.
positional arguments:
inputFile the input Nord Electro 4 Program HTML file
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-s, --showSample display the sample or organ category below the program
name
-r, --reverse print the patches in reverse order (from low to high)
-o OUTPUTFILE, --outputFile OUTPUTFILE
the output HTML file