Copying, pasting and exporting

Copy and Paste carry a sound, not a place: what you paste goes into the patch, zone or block you paste it into. Every paste can be undone, and Revert brings back what was there.

Whole patches

Select a patch in the sidebar and press ⌘C; select another and press ⌘V. The patch's keywords and note go with it. This is also how you move a sound to another slot. You can drag a Work Area patch onto a Temporary Area Part, too.

Zones

A zone is one layer of a patch: its oscillators, envelopes, LFOs and COSM blocks.

Choose Edit › Copy Zone and pick the zone.
Select the patch to paste into (the same one or another), then choose Edit › Paste Into Zones… and tick the zones to fill.

The zones' key ranges are not copied, because each zone's range is set by where the zone before it ends. Set ranges on Common › Zone.

Parts of a patch

In the Sound Designer layout, Control-click (or right-click) a group in the group list. Its shortcut menu copies and pastes the same units as the V-Synth's own PATCH Copy screen: an oscillator, a COSM block, the TVA, the multi-effects, chorus or reverb, the arpeggio or the Step Modulator.

An oscillator, COSM block or TVA is copied from the zone on screen, and you choose which zones to paste into.
Oscillator 1 can be pasted onto Oscillator 2, and COSM 1 onto COSM 2, or the other way round.
Effects, the arpeggio and the Step Modulator belong to the whole patch and paste at once.

In the Engineer layout, the section list's shortcut menu copies and pastes a whole section across all sixteen zones, and can paste zone for zone or one zone into others.

Exporting MIDI files

File › Export (⌘E) saves the selected patches, System or Setup as a Standard MIDI File of System Exclusive messages: the same messages Send to V-Synth sends, spaced out so a DAW can play them through any MIDI interface. Playing the file to the V-Synth loads what it holds into the places it came from.

You can also drag patches straight from the sidebar to the Finder, or into a MIDI track in a DAW such as Logic Pro.
Several selected patches become one file.
File › Export group… (⇧⌘E) exports only the group on screen, so playing it changes only those settings.
A patch's keywords and note are included as text the DAW can show. They are not sent to the instrument.

Playing an exported Work Area patch writes it into that slot of the V-Synth's memory, as Send does.