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Instrument Definition Tutorial
Instrument Definitions
3. Choose Edit from the pop-up menu, and change the name from Roland XP-10 Var #01 to
Roland XP-10 Var #011.
4. In the same tree find the Roland XP-10 Var #08 list and change the name from Roland XP-10
Var #08 to Roland XP-10 Var #01.
5. Drag the newly renamed list from the Patch Names tree in the right window to the Patch
Names for Banks tree in the left window.
6. In the Bank Number dialog box, enter 128, and click OK.
6. 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.
Examine the new bank and patch data in a track that uses 1-Roland XP-10 as an output. In the Bnk
field, select 128 Roland XP-10 Var #01, then look at the drop-down list of patches in the Pch field.
The list should now have the same names that the Roland keyboard uses for its Vari 1 bank.
The Roland XP-10, like most MIDI keyboards, allows you to create your own sounds and store them
in one or more User banks. You can create patch name lists in SONAR that are the same as the
names you gave to each of your own sounds.
Checking Bank Numbers
You can calculate bank numbers by using the methods described in “Assigning the Bank Select
Method” on page 794, but you might find it easier to use the following method:
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 pop-up 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 pop-up 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.