Chapter Four
Loading Patches from a Computer
Bringing additional patches from your computer
to Organelle.
One of the strengths of Organelle is its depth. The included factory patches represent a
good sample of what is possible with Organelle, but these are by no means the only
patches you can use.
As was mentioned in an earlier chapter,
organelle.io
is the official repository of Organelle
patches and a great place to start when looking for new sounds, options, and performance
approaches. (And as it tends to do, the Internet will probably have some suggestions of its
own…)
Finding and downloading Organelle-ready patches is easy enough. To actually use these
patches, however, requires getting them from a computer to our properly formatted USB
drive, which can then be connected to Organelle for running our newfound patches. (And
yes, that computer could be running Windows, Macintosh, Linux, or some other operating
system. No additional software is required; the computer is just being used to download
files, possibly decompress them, and then copy their folders to the USB drive.)
In this chapter, we’ll look at how to work with Organelle’s USB drive on a computer. But to
get there, we must begin with how that drive needs to be configured, and we’ll end with a
few extra notes on USB usage with Organelle.
With this information in hand, we’ll be able to expand our patch library. Here’s to growing
our set of options.
The Required USB Drive
As has probably become clear by now, Organelle will only work properly while a USB drive
is attached to it. In light of this fundamental fact, a few words on the setup of that USB drive
are in order.