Exporting differences in ensembles as patches

It would be nice if we could take an ensemble, adapt it, and export only the differences as a "patch". The reason I would like to do this: I took some reaktor ensembles, like monark and skanner XT. I made some changes in the ensemble in order to be able to control it via osc, or I made a lot of osc mappings. I probably can not share the modified ensembles, since they are commercial ensembles, but it would be nice if I could just save these changes, so that someone else could apply them to their ensemble.

 

i can't see your feature request ever happening because you are talking a about specific 'Player' Ensembles.

why, don't you do similar 'OSC' patches for the Reaktor 5 Library or some of the User Library uploads? you could then share these by uploading your edited version to the User Library.

sowari

 

Yeah, I am thinking of doing this for more reaktor ensembles, but I was hoping to share my osc mappings of these player ensembles. I wonder if it would be possible to save these in a snapshot.

 

It may be possible to use some - ideally freeware - external differencing application. You would generate a difference file from the original .ens, and your updated ens.
Someone with the same original .ens and the differencing app could then use your .diff file and their copy of the original .ens to generate a copy of your updated ensemble.

Downside is that I'm not sure what the legalities of this might be. I suppose you could email the original developers of the ensembles (NI or whoever) to ask for permission.