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'PX7 200K Collection' shrinked to 30K uniques

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When I first heard of the original  Korg Kronos oriented 'dx7_200k_collection' project  I thought that it would be interesting to try and purge it from all the inevitable duplicate Banks and Patches included. This happened a few weeks before the release of Propellerhead's own version, the  PX7-200k-Collection ReFill  for their  PX7 FM Synthesizer . After reaching a point where I already had all duplicate SysEx Bank files removed and was going through each bank sets, performing the conversion to .repatch format using the indispensable Propellerhead's  DX7-PX7 Patch Converter , I realized that the hardest part of this dups removal project was going to be the surprisingly high amount of cases that I had to decide which bank should be considered the "original" so I could remove all the corresponding duplicates from all the others. Well, once PH released their 200K ReFill version, I thought that it really wasn't worth my time to revisit the pro

PH Forums go "byebye" next week...

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« On Thursday Jan 22nd , [...] The Propellerhead Forums are not being brought along to the new website, which means this place is going to close next week. » I guess this blog might start getting more posts now :) Why? Well, I don't get along with Facebook (and it doesn't get me either) so this blog is now basically my default place to publicly comment on what's going on in the world of Reason. Along with that, the time I usually spend browsing forum threads for any issues that catch my eye to jump in and try to help will now be spent here. My tendency to comment and provide feedback about Reason in PH own forums was, I see now, a natural act of keeping it in context, within a place where almost all cared about that specific subject, apart from my quick snippets of text on Twitter , trying to express my more immediate opinions on things as they happened (which I'll keep doing, because Twitter is natural to me, unlike Facebook). btw, jus