Instruction Manual

Chapter 14: Reference
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Patch Map
This opens the General MIDI Patch Edit dialog, where you can make a customized General
MIDI patch map.
Type in the patch number that your synth uses for each instrument listed. For example, if your sound source has its
Acoustic Piano at patch location 41select the box to the left of Acoustic Piano and type 41. Do the same for all of
the instruments in the General MIDI patch list. If your synth doesn't have an exact match, use a close sounding
patch that it does have. Once you have made a patch map in this way, whenever Band-in-a-Box encounters
Acoustic Piano (which is General MIDI instrument #1), it will look up this Patch Map Location and then send out
Patch 41 to your synth/sound module.
Drum Kit
If you have been unable to find a preset drum map that matches your synth's drum notes, then you
may need to type in the drum notes that your sound source uses. To do this, you need to hook your MIDI controller
up to play the drum sounds from the keyboard. Play up and down the keyboard to hear all the drum sounds.
Here's a way to figure out where the MIDI note numbers are on your synth.
We took this screen shot while playing MIDI note 36 on a MIDI controller. If you have MIDI In hooked up, you
can play various “C” notes until it matches the location shown (below the word Bass). Then you can mark that note
on your controller as note 36. The notes are then numbered (chromatically) 36, 37(C#), 38(D) etc. (Some people
call note 36 C3; others call it C2.) This is note 36 (C3) played on a MIDI controller.