If it works like that, is there
any reason why you would need an lsb value at all? I think you hit the nail
on the head with your theory that it is in base 8. What happens if you go
into record on a track and manually make a bank change from the keyboard
itself? You should be able to see what controller data was recorded on the
track to verify.
Gord
-----Original Message-----
From: Nicole Massey
Sent: Monday, March 21, 2016 10:58 PM
To: QWS list
Subject: QWS List Something Weird with Kurzweil K2600EX Patch Changes
This can't be what I'm suspecting it is, but here goes.
I got my big Kurzweil K2600ex out of the garage and plugged it in. (This is
no mean feat, as it weighs about 76lbs) After getting everything responding
and patched in with the new live rig I did what everyone does, I started
working on an instrument definition file for QWS. I used Instavert to
convert the Cakewalk definition file and started working with it to find out
what it does and if it needs high definition bank changes. (Most things do,
but I've found exceptions, like the Proteus VX) Load the file, start walking
things upward, and I'm getting responses on the first two banks using low
definition files, and then a big bag of nothing after that. Okay, I did my
little trick to load the INST file into Notepad, do the find and replace to
replace commas with tabs, and paste it into Excel, then do a fast formula
and boom, there's the high definition bank change values in multiples of
128.
No joy. So I start going into the bank change data to check things. And I
find that I have four banks of sounds, but they show up on bank 0, 1, 8, and
9, and then again and again going up in multiples of 128. The only way I
could imagine that happening is if it's ignoring the CC0 message and using
only CC31. I remember they came out around 1999 or so, so they postdate
hi-definition controllers and RPN/NRPN adoption to the MIDI specification,
but it seems sort of odd that it would only read 31 and not 0 for this
stuff.
Anyone got any other ideas on what might be going on here? This is odd and
though nothing (and I mean absolutely nothing) in MIDI is mandatory it's
still highly strange.
Note also that though there are only 100 programs per bank this instrument
doesn't seem to use the older Kurzweil/Oberheim style of bank change
commands. That may only be in use for the K250 and K1000/K1200 series.
(Which I have a lot of -- 12 modules and a keyboard of that series)
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