Duplicating and renaming

I was playing with the Karplus Stereo patch. I made some edits, duplicated, and saved it as 2Karplus Stereo. If I go to load patches, I see two named the same, without the “2”. If I load the edited one, I do see my changes in the connections etc. I went back and forth between the 2, and once after loading and hitting play I saw the name up on top showing the 2 at the beginning, but I can make it happen again.

I also tried to duplicate again and save it starting with “2”, but it tells me that name already exists.

Sorry, I know that’s a lot of words to describe something fairly simple!

I’ve been trying this all evening, I don’t seem to be able to duplicate and rename.

Am I missing a step? I type in the new name, scroll down to the check mark….

But still all the saved file names are the same.

The name of the patch and the filename are two different things. You can edit the name by clicking the circled “i” button next to the play button. Then you can save the duplicate patch with a different file name.

This is something we are planning to address soon because it’s definitely a little unexpected

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Ah ha, thanks for explaining that! It’s a bit cumbersome, but works: rename the patch on the info page, then duplicate and rename it to that same name.

Any possibility of streamlining this? I like to save iterations while editing, just in case, then usually go back and delete the intermediaries once I’m happy with it. I can still easily do that, but unless I do some extra steps every time I wind up with patches that show the same name even though they are different.

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Take a look here!

That’s for VCV and I’m thinking we’ll implement something similar on the MM hardware

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