On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 13:28 +0100, Christian Schoenebeck wrote: > Hi everybody! > > I wonder what's the common behavior for a synth/sampler regarding MIDI bank > select messages. You might know that MIDI has splitted bank indeces into two > values MSB (coarse) and LSB (fine) value.
I am only aware of the original program-select message (0 -127) and the newish(?) special controller 0 msg "bank select" (also 0 - 127) Older gear are unaware of control zero and will ignore on reception and most likely not be able to configure themselves to send it. Older midi-mergers may detect it as an error and discard. MIDI bank was introduced as a way of having both a userspace freely programmable area as well as a set (or several) well thought out patches. Default is bank zero.
