organizing patches

[Innovine]

I am very interested to hear about how you organize your virus presets and patches!!

Up until now, I've mostly used my virus in Single mode. I send midi from ableton, get a good sound, and record the results back into ableton. I rarely bother to save the virus patch itself, I just have a couple of starter patches which I can call up and tweak to produce new sounds.

I'm now changing my workflow, and got rid of the computer entirely. I now have a midi sequencer (an emu xl-7 command station) for sending midi and controller tweaks to the virus. But I have no idea how to go about arranging the presets on the virus in such a way that I can recall the same sounds for the same patterns in the xl-7.

I guess you don't need to have an xl-7 to understand the problem. I am making a live drum and bass set, so I need to manage multiple songs, and recall the right sounds at the right time. Help! I am completely lost, and would appreciate any ideas or strategies you have developed for this kind of job.