On Sunday 13 July 2003 11:48 am, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote:

> Your Roland-SC-33.rgd already has variation banks, based on MSB:

Yeah, I thought you were taking advantage of some new feature that was going 
to make it all a lot less unwieldy than it is to manage variations relative 
to their basic program numbers, but now that I've looked, I see you did 
essentially the same thing I did.

> What is unclear to me is how to exclude (id needed) these banks from the
> "variation" concept. Guess you don't mind.

>         <bank name="FX 1" msb="1" lsb="0">
>         <bank name="FX 2" msb="2" lsb="0">

�C�mo?

I'm not quite sure what you mean.  I named my banks the way I did to reflect 
how useful things are.  Primary, Secondary, Tertiary, etc.  No scheme really 
works very well, and GS isn't quite consistent with itself.  There's a bass 
in FX 1, for example, but 1-7 and 9 are mostly only sound effects.  
(Unfortunately, there are also sound effects in 8.)

MSB 8 are the "primary" variations because if I hit the variation button on 
the vast majority of my patches, I'll get the variation at MSB 8 as the first 
variation, and the variation at MSB 16 as the next one (for most, though 
16/24/32 is a bit of a toss up), and so on.

The reason I named mine as I did is because RG only displays something that's 
there.  If you start with Piano 1 and want to dial up Piano 1w, the first 
variation, then that's not directly possible.  It displays the first 
variation in the next MSB along the way, which is that bass (and which is 
attached to a different basic program number), and then you dial through 
several sound effects which are also attached to different basic program 
numbers.  Eventually when you get to what I call "Primary Variations" and 
what you call "var8" you find Piano 1w, the primary variation of Piano 1.

Either way it's rather a pain in the ass to get from Piano 1 to Piano 1w, but 
when I cobbled this together, I felt like my scheme would at least make it 
easier for me to zero in on the banks that are most likely to have useful 
variations.  "Syn Bass 101" or whatever it is is *not* a variation of "Piano 
1" and the way RG presents this is misleading.  I was just trying to cope 
with something that isn't really built to accommodate my synth's scheme very 
conveniently.

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