Posted by Thoracius Appotite on Friday, March 29th, 2019 at 11:58 AM
I’ve created this document to help people install my microKORG bank onto their synth, but it should be helpful to anyone.
There are two primary methods of getting patches into your microKORG. The quickest is if you have a MIDI interface/cable, you use KORG’s microKORG Sound Editor (or any SysEx-capable software) to transfer, manage, and backup your patches. The other way is to manually input the patches using the dials and knobs on the synth.
Download The microKORG Sound Editor Software From KORG’s Website
Visit the link corresponding to your synth and download either the “Win” or “Mac” version of the software:
On a Windows machine, once you’ve installed the microKORG Sound Editor it will create a folder in your “Documents” or “My Documents” folder called “KORG.” Under that will be two folders, one called “My Library” and another folder called “My Setup.” Each of those folders will have a sub-folder called “microKORG” in it. Place any any .PRG files you have into the “My Library/microKORG” folder, and place any .SET files that you have in “My Setup/microKORG” folder.
Here’s a video where I walk through installing the microKORG Sound Editor for Windows and show where to place the files so that they are accessible from within the microKORG Sound Editor software:
On Mac, all you need to do is open the bank file.
SysEx Alternatives
There’s free software for Mac called SysEx Librarian that will allow you to transfer the patches one by one if you have them in .MID format.
