PATCHES for use with the DW8000 patch editor Ever see one of those MEX-8000 memory expanders from Korg? It gave you the capability to instantly load your choice of four different banks of patches, and could be configured to work with most of the Korg synths of that time (DW/EX-8000, Poly/EX-800, others?). Well, I bought one, way back when. It came loaded with four new banks of patches from Korg for the DW/EX-8000. I was using a Commodore 64 for sequencing and data dumps, so I saved the patch banks that came with the MEX-8000 before I trashed them to save my own setups. Hey, this was hot stuff when it came out, ten years ago! Anyway, I always remembered the second rule of aquision: never throw anything away. My C-64 still works! Sooo..... Here are the straight-from-Korg (circa 1986?) factory patches for the DW/EX-8000 in the directory "FACTORY", sub-directories for: banks A and B, the famous "blue card" banks, and MEX A, B, C, D from the MEX-8000 memory expansion module, all in a format compatable with the DW8000 patch editor written by Anthony Ruggeri, downloaded from AOL. I had to take some liberties with the patch names, but they are close enough to the Korg originals to figure out what's what. Since the patches came "free" from the factory with the equipment, they should be public domain or something, legal to freely share. The patches (w/names) are stored in the six directories, and are duplicated in the directory, "PATCHES". The .lst files to load them in banks as Korg loaded them are in the directory, "PATCHLST". I have also created a "General MIDI" bank from these patches and included it here. DISCLAIMER: I did this in fits and starts over a period of four or five days ---- ( please pardon my typing errors, misspellings, duplicates with different names, the use of my personal conventions in patch naming, brain-lock, etc... ) ---- for FUN, not PROFIT! Enjoy! Also I have included a ZIP file I downloaded from AOL with a bank of sounds from Livewire - never heard of 'em. Patches are OK, though nothing really exciting. A text file with a list of patch names would really have been appreciated!