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External devices. Using CAL. Hardware setup. MIDI files. Initialization files. Included plug-ins. Menu reference. Dialog box reference. View reference. Keyboard shortcuts. All rights reserved Sitemap Privacy Policy Legal. If you are using one of these instruments, you can use instrument definitions to make sure that the names of banks, patches, and controllers that you see in your Cakewalk software are the same ones you see on the display screens of your MIDI keyboards and modules.
If you are trying to locate Instrument Definitions for your hardware, you should first check to find out if it was already included with your Cakewalk software. If you cannot locate the correct ones for your hardware, you can use the downloads below to see if our archive has them available. If you cannot locate the appropriate Instrument Definitions for your hardware, try contacting your hardware manufacturer to see if they have them available.
Some manufacturer's have utilities that will generate the file for you. One example of this is Roland Backstage, which has a script that builds instrument definitions for various Roland devices. The instrument definitions you imported should now appear in the Uses Instrument list in the Assign Instruments dialog box. If you want your MIDI tracks in your Cakewalk software to use an instrument definition that you have imported, you need to specify which MIDI ports of your hardware you wish to use the instrument definition.
You can do this by doing the following:. If you find we don't currently offer the definition for your MIDI device and you cannot locate it online, you may want to create the definition yourself. These instructions will direct you in that task. SONAR lets you create and edit instrument definitions.
To create an instrument definition, you must answer these types of questions:. To collect this information, you need the MIDI documentation for your instrument. You define instruments in the Define Instruments and Names dialog box, shown in the following figure. You expand or collapse the folders and lists in each tree by clicking on the or - key shown to the left of each item.
You can also right-click on an item and choose Expand or Collapse from the menu, or double-click on an item to expand or collapse it. To define an instrument, you drag resources from the Names tree to the name of an instrument on the Instruments tree. Each resource is color-coded—you can only drag a Names list to an Instrument tree branch of the same color.
For example, you can only drag a list from the Patch Names folder in the Names tree to a Patch Names for Banks folder in the Instruments tree. There are six components to an instrument definition:. You may be able to define a new instrument using existing name lists. For example, two models of synthesizers made by a particular manufacturer may have identical patch name lists but use different NRPNs.
In this case, you can use the same patch name lists for both instruments, but you would need to use a different NRPN list or perhaps create a new NRPN list for the second synth. Otherwise, to make only temporary changes, be sure to remove the check from that option. To create a new instrument. Synthesizer manufacturers will provide different methods for changing banks via MIDI. Some manufacturers use a simple patch change message to change banks, while others use a MIDI Controller 32 message, or a Controller 0 message.
First, we'll look at the Normal Bank Select method. The good news is that Cakewalk will save the bank numbers as part of your Instrument Definition. For synths using the Normal Bank Select method, you need to calculate the bank number based on the values of Controller 0 and Controller There's a simple formula for doing this.
The formula works for all instruments that use the Normal Bank Select Method of Controller 0 and Plug these numbers into the formula:. So is the correct bank number for the PR-A Bank. Use this formula to calculate the correct numbers to enter in the Instrument Definition walk-through above. Determining the Correct Bank Number - Other Bank Select Methods Some synthesizers, such as many Ensoniq and Kurzweil models, use a patch change event also known as a program change to change banks.
An example of this is the Roland JV It uses a Controller 0 value of 81 to change between A and B banks. Controller 32 Only: If your synth uses Controller 32 only, type the Controller 32 value into the Bank Number window and associate that number with the patch list you created earlier. Patch
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