How to edit a patch that's already been uploaded into the hardware?

#1

Looks like it's my first topic so hello, Axoloti community!

I've been in possession of an Axoloti Core for a while now, however I didn't take the time to really dive in yet. I uploaded a user's patch several months ago and started to mess around with the hardware both as FX unit and USB host, everything was working great, but then I fell into another rabbit's hole and left the Axoloti.

Now that I'm ready to explore it again, I'd like to reopen the currently embedded patch to study it and remind myself what it does and how. I'm sure it's easy but I can't figure out how to do this. Is it possible?

I don't have the original patch on my computer anymore because it crashed a while ago. I could look for it online, I would probably find it again but I'd rather solve this before - as a kind of basic learning challenge :slight_smile:

Thanks for your help!

#2

If the patch is on the SD card, you could put the card in your computer and load it from there via "Open" in the menu. I think that's the only way to get a patch `back' from the hardware.

#3

i don't think you can reopen an already compiled patch...

#4

OK, thanks for your answers!
Out of curiosity, is it because the compilation process makes it impossible to send back into the editor?

#5

well, compiling is a one way operation mostly, you generate machine code from a programming language (c++ in our case). the patcher is an even higher abstraction of this, allowing non programmers to create those patches. so the process is twofold: from patcher to c file and from c file to compiled binary.