I think you can't mix SO1 and SO2.
Hi
Yes, it is entirely possible, but it is a bit of a faff involving lifting the XML format filters from the Konfig log file then pasting them into an XML editor (or opening them via MS Edge*) then pasting the 'fixed' layout into the appropriate section of a previously exported file from SO version 1 (I used Notepad++ for that). As I am using a rear sub (and subs are not yet on the SO2 system) I did all that quite a few times (I've just looked and there are about 90 in my recycle bin)! Also note the red paragraph later in this post; doing it is not without risk, so great care must be taken, too (which is why I didn't write instructions back in the days of the Linn forum, but they have since been written-up by others, so this cat is already out of the bag, as they say).
Another 'problem' is that the new SO does not identify what each mode type that the filter (the dip) is actually there to address (i.e. 1-0-0 being the first length mode, 0-3-0 being the third width mode, etc) and instead, it just allocates arbitrary (well, actually sequential, but otherwise completely meaningless) numbers to them (e.g. 0-0-0, 1-1-1, 2-2-2, 3-3-3, etc) so I had to work out what each one was (by both looking at the existing SO 1 filter locations and by using amroc) and change these filter identities within the XML code. They can be left as they are, but if your speakers are not spaced equally from each of the side walls, you could have filters (dips) that are needed only for one channel. What that means - for example - is that your first pair of left+right dips might be L1 in both channels (which is fine, you could adjust them as a pair) but if there was no W1 right requirement, your second pair could be W1 on the left, paired with L2 on the right, for example (so if you adjust one of them in Konfig, it will change the other one too).
To describe the above paragraph in a more 'humanly readable' way ('paragraph -hr' for us Linux users
) I had to sort out all the filter identities in order that the below shown list...
...instead showed which modes that the dips were there to address (otherwise they were not linked together in each channel and all showed as LWH, as per the above image) and, for example, the single channel one shown currently selected in the below image (which is actually W2 on front left) would have been linked to an unrelated (in terms of its required level setting) W-H right channel filter.
It is also worth noting that for anybody doing anything like this, it is possible that a typo could result in something very bad happening. When using Konfig, you can't accidentally do something silly like enter a - 20 dB filter as +20 dB, but there are no such sanity checks when hacking the XML code (and goodness knows what your DS would interpret something like a +20 dB inverted dip at 10 KHz as being, for example, and if it did do as it was told, goodness knows how many milliseconds your treble units would survive such an event)!! I do know that Konfig won't import XML with some types of error in the code, but I haven't tested to see whether it would reject importing something silly, like the above.
It would be super-cool if Linn gave the on-line SOv2 a capability of exporting a Konfig compatible file (which would probably be reasonably simple) but they would also have to change SO2 to make it also identify the dips correctly (and I have no idea how complex that would be to do) but my guess is that once Exakt and subs are in the system, future versions of Konfig will no longer include a Space Optimisation feature, so there would be nothing to import them into (unless you remained on the last version of Konfig that does have the SO feature, which is what I intend doing).
Incidentally, for many years I have made it my policy to never bought anything which relies on the presence of a third party server for its configuration or operation, so making an exportable XML file that can be imported to Konfig (and not removing SO v1 Konfig) would be very welcome (but even if not, I hope Konfig never looses the capability to at lease enable/disable SO; I would never upgrade Konfig or my DS to that version).
Bri
* I used Edge browser to open the code section extracted from Konfig log file, then copied it from there and pasted it into Notepad++. I was recently informed of a Notepad++ plug-in which would eliminate the need to go through the Edge part of the process, but for security reasons, I am not comfortable with installing a third party package without more information about the author (and I have not yet had time to research that, so I have not yet tried it).
