Instruction Manual

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Instrument Definition Tutorial
Instrument Definitions
To Check the Bank Numbers
1. Set up a MIDI track to record from your MIDI keyboard or module.
2. Click the Record button to start recording, and change banks on your
keyboard.
3. Stop recording, and open the Event List view.
4. The bank change you recorded is displayed in the Event List view in
this way: in the Data column you’ll see what kind of bank change
method your keyboard uses (probably Normal), and in the column to
the right of that data is the number of the bank you changed to.
When we changed the Roland XP-10 to the User 1 bank, we recorded a
bank number of 8192.
To Create a Patch Name List for Your Own Sounds
1. You could create a new list by copying and renaming an existing list
(right-click a list and choose New Patch Name List from the popup
menu), but since the instrument definition we imported for the XP-10
includes a list called Roland XP-10 User Tone 1, let’s just edit that one:
in the Names Tree window on the right, right-click the Roland XP-10
User Tone 1 list and choose Add Patch Name from the popup menu.
A new patch field appears, with the text “0 = 0” inside.
2. Replace the first number in the patch field with the number of a patch
you stored in User Bank 1 on the Roland.
3. Replace the second number in the patch field with the name you made
up for the patch you just gave a number to, and press Enter.
4. Assign names to as many patch numbers as you want—the numbers
between 0 and 127 that you don’t assign any names to show up in the
Track view Patch menu just as patch numbers with no other names.
5. When you finish assigning names, drag your edited patch list to the
Roland XP-10 Patch Names for Banks tree in the left window.
6. Enter 8192 as the bank number, which we know is the correct bank
number from the previous procedure.
7. Click the Close button to close the Define Instruments and Names
dialog box and click OK to close the Assign Instruments and Names
dialog box.
Now you can select the 8192-Roland XP-10 User Tone 1 bank in the Bank
field of a MIDI track, and then examine the patch list in the Patch menu: you
should see the patch list that you just created.