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today i went to open up some recent projects i had been working on and none of the fm8 sounds were playing correctly. they had all reverted to "newsound" (the default patch that is created when you create a new patch). i hadn't saved these patches manually, but that has never been an issue before. i checked other projects and they are all fine; it is just these two particular projects which are somewhat recent. i have opened them before and never had any problems.

what would cause this to happen? it seems that it must be an issue that isn't confined to one project, i.e. a setting i changed within that song, because it happened simultaneously to a couple of them, but if that's the case, then why isn't it affecting all of them? if it's a matter of patches being missing, i really doubt that since i haven't deleted a huge amount of patches lately and all the patches in both of these song files are affected, which means i would have had to lose at least 6 or 7 patches. is there a way to find what patches it is looking for? i.e. some sort of debugging window that gives me more information than the normal ableton startup prompt that only tells you if a file or plugin is missing?

recreating these patches is going to be ridiculous and i am also a little disturbed about the possibility of it happening again. i need to know if there is any way to figure this out.

ugh.. nevermind, i've figured this out. no idea how i'm going to solve it.

these projects were made during the brief window i was using fm8 1.2, which only saves to the new .nfm8 format, which is why i downgraded back to 1.1. unfortunately that means i can't save the patches with these new song files because they'll be .nfm8 and won't open with 1.1 (the version i intend to use). so i have to either recreate the patches in ksd format or use fm8 1.2 for these song files. lame.