some advice needed to create presets properly

[Krakatau]

Hi

Though i may understand a few of them ( VO= voices, PA= pads, etc...) I'm just asking to you what means all the acronyms in both beginning and end of Gladiator's presets

This in order to create a proper directory for them, i took some times to creates a bunch of them (mainly pads because this is an amazing synth on that purpose IMO) and would like to show them to potential resellers for evaluation...

thanks in advance !

[GeorgeZ]

Hi Krakatau,

As you noted, some (almost all of them) of the pre-fixes are pretty obvious, SY=Synth etc. These are of course based on the category they fall in, therefore, for your own you may create "sub-categories" of your own.
Those prefixes aren't a hard and fast rule.

The post-fixes are the sound designer's name / company signature. My patches for instance carry the post-fix "GZ".

[Bastiaan van Noord]

Hi

From the top of my head

ARP - arpeggiated
VO - voice (usually vocal pads, in Gladiator the vocoder sounds are also prefixed VO)
PA - pads
SY - synth sounds
LD - leads
BR - brass sounds
TG - trancegate
BA - bass sounds
AT / ATM - atmospheric sounds
FX - effects
DR - drum based sounds (single hits, drum sequences)
GT - guitar
OR - organs
PI - piano
EP - electric piano
FL -flutes
NA - natural sounds (usually emulations of traditional instruments)
ST - string sounds (think violins, orchestral string sounds)

Should be most of them I think, several are used somewhat ambiguous at times due to overlap between them, i.e., ST and GT
There's not really a golden rule when it comes to category prefixes so used terms may differ from designer to designer.


edit: and as George noted the postfixes are the designer's initials

Hope that helps.

-Bastiaan-

[Krakatau]

Thanks all

Should be ok...

It seems that i have now to go back to work