Save Open Files

When you save a file to disk using: the Save As ... command from the File Menu, or when a file created using the New ... command from the File Menu is saved for the first time, the following dialog appears to allow you to select a name for the file.

If a file has been created or opened and there is no associated sample file, then the following dialog is displayed:


If you select Yes, then a companion W8x file is created.

Seperating Data in W7A and SYSEX Files

The Tree View also supports options on its Context Sensitive Menu to save data from W7A and SYSEX files into seperate files. Note, if you select these options on files that have custom waves defined, there may be a slight delay in between selecting the option and the filename dialog appearing as motif.factory has to create a copy of the file in which all the redundant waves are removed.

W7A Files Collections that can be seperately saved
  • User Voices, User Drum Voices and User Plugin Voices can be saved to a W7E (Motif ES Voice Editor) file by right clicking over the User Voices, User Drum Voices or User Plugin Voices Collections and selecting the Save W7E File option
  • User Voices, User Drum Voices and User Plugin Voices can be saved to a W7V (Motif ES Voice) file by right clicking over the User Voices, User Drum Voices or User Plugin Voices Collections and selecting the Save W7V File option
  • User Voices, User Drum Voices and User Plugin Voices can be saved to a W9E (Motif Rack ES Voice Editor) file by right clicking over the User Voices, User Drum Voices or User Plugin Voices Collections and selecting the Save W9E File option
  • User Arpeggios can be saved to a W7G (Motif Arpeggio) file by right clicking over the User Arpeggio Collection and selecting the Save W7G File option
  • User Patterns can be saved to a W7P (Motif Pattern) file by right clicking over the User Pattern Collection and selecting the Save W7P File option
  • User Songs can be saved to a W7S (Motif Song) file by right clicking over the User Song Collection and selecting the Save W7S File option
  • User Waves can be saved to a W7W (Motif Wave) file by right clicking over the User Wave Collection and selecting the Save W7W File option
SYSEX Files Collections that can be seperately saved
  • User Voices, User Drum Voices and User Plugin Voices can be saved to a W7E (Motif ES Voice Editor) file by right clicking over the User Voices, User Drum Voices or User Plugin Voices Collections and selecting the Save W7E File option
  • User Voices, User Drum Voices and User Plugin Voices can be saved to a W7V (Motif ES Voice) file by right clicking over the User Voices, User Drum Voices or User Plugin Voices Collections and selecting the Save W7V File option
  • User Voices, User Drum Voices and User Plugin Voices can be saved to a W9E (Motif Rack ES Voice Editor) file by right clicking over the User Voices, User Drum Voices or User Plugin Voices Collections and selecting the Save W9E File option