GT-100 - Newbie Questions

Started by danldanl, February 27, 2018, 11:07:54 AM

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danldanl

I apologize in advance if this is too basic, but I've spent an hour reading and while I've pieced together some answers, I don't really understand some things.  I've had a ME-33 for years and bought the GT-100 a week ago.   Love it and the ability to get patches.  It's a snap with Boss Tone Studio.  The Tone Central integration makes it sooo easy for the boss tones.  And a VERY FEW posts here include .tsl files, which seems to be the easiest way to share patches, just import into Tone Studio and drag.

I'm wondering why EVERYONE isn't using .tsl files to share patches.  I see .mid files and I've watched videos where someone uses something called "librarian" to load them.  Seems like an old way and perhaps why I see a fair amount of patches in .mid format.  Is that an old school way?

I see .syx files, have no idea what they even are.  What is this format? 

And worst of all, I see a LOT of videos posted very recently that literally walk through the parameter changes in Boss Tone Studio.  I'm completely perplexed as to why anyone would do that.  Why not export to a .tsl and post that instead of painstakenly creating a video ...in which case I'd painstakenly would have to re-create the steps?

Bottom line, why isn't EVERYONE sharing their patches in .tsl format?

Thanks

Dan L.

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When the Boss GT-100 was released in 2012, Boss Tone Studio did not exist

there was only the Boss GT-100 Librarian

eventually Gumtown added GT-100 compatibility to his Gumtown GT Floorboard Editor   

which can use *.mid, *.tsl files from many generations of Boss products

Here is out GT-100 patch exchange area

Must be logged in to see the patch files attached to 1st post in the thread
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?board=150.0

gumtown

The Tone Studio for GT-100 is a recent thing.
So the GT-100 has a long history of using other previous formats.

GT-100 FxFloorBoard editor uses all 3 of these different formats
https://sourceforge.net/projects/fxfloorboard/

There is a jumbo bulk patch collection set here too
https://sourceforge.net/projects/fxfloorboard/files/GT-100FxFloorboard/Patch%20Sets/
Free "GR-55 FloorBoard" editor software from https://sourceforge.net/projects/grfloorboard/

danldanl

Thank you both so much for the quick replies.  You confirmed my suspicions of things being much more difficult in the past without the advanced software available now.

I downloaded FloorBoard and it works very nicely.  How could I not when the author answered my question! ;-)  I have loaded a bunch of .mid and .syx patches successfully.  I downloaded the jumbo bulk patch and am looking forward to many hours of fun checking out those 400-500 patches.  This is one of the things I was looking for/expecting when I bought the GT-100, a long list of sounds by song that I can simply load without having to spend a ton of time patching by hand.  Friggin awesome!  Got all the formats covered! 

I'm going to have to REALLY like a patch to watch a video and program it by hand!  In the time it takes to create one video, you can download and install FloorBoard and create a downloadable patch file!  Come on people!  LOL!

danldanl

OK, started to look at the Jumbo collection and see 80 or 90 of the files are themselves collections with the larger ones having 100's of patches each, 480 in the Ultimate Collection along for example.  WOW!  So I have many thousands of patches, to check out, not 500.   Awesome!