On Tuesday 02 April 2002 12:29 pm, you wrote: > The bank select message of my multi-instrument is (0,32) > which means i'm suckered into setting up my own bank > select commands. POOR ME! > I entered all pannel voice manually spread over 5 initialised banks. > Let's see if i get this straight or not with an example: > Let's say i wanna hear "mellow brass" which is the first preset of > bank nr 1 in the instrument selection box. Mellow brass has the > followin status: MSB:0 LSB:116 > My bank select list looks like this: > Bank 1 (a) control o o Bank msb > Bank 1 (b) control 32 112 Bank lsb > (by the way, with this setting i stiil hear no mellow brass, > instead i hear those default gm sounds, which make me puke). > The program change box is crossed, i checked it. > What am i doing wrong? What you need is a dual entry for each pank and not for each sound. First you need to consult with the keyboard manual to find out which controller messages it uses for bank changes (0 and 32 may be the controllers, but there are different values for each bank you want to select). So if you have 5 banks, then there will be 10 entries in your custom bank message thingie list. Two for each bank. Then when selecting a patch, you select bank 1-5 (whichever the sound is in (nr1)), then the program 1-128 (which ever is the correct sound in that bank (I think prgram 1 in your case)). I'm much better at doing it than explaining it. > Let's say i got this 2 line bank select list of mine shown > above right, do i need to make those tedious 2liners for each > and every synth sound i wanna access? Just for each existing bank on the keyboard. You'll notice a seperate bank selection and program selection in the instrument parameters. > While i'm running hot i got a few additional questions: > How come all my presets in my keyboard(a yamaha psr 630) have > O as msb value? Except for effects which have 64 as value. > Also, many presets have the same lsb value! You probably (well maybe (I have no verbal skills)) realized from the earlier paragraph that the value is not attributed to the patch, but the bank. > Does the word "control" in the bank select command box has the same > meaning as the term "Control Change" in a Midi implementation > chart? Not sure about the referrence. I hope this helps a little. Colin Miller