And that box stored the master/slave configuration, so controller 2 had to run to sound source 1,2,3,4,5 or 6. Yet on a board with 8 sounds per bank, where I would normally think of bank 7/patch 2 as 72, that sound is patch 50. but no no no, because MIDI (correctly) runs from 0-9 it was sound 33. I had a similar experience in the Motown band but that was done inside the MX8 MIDI patch bay and that thing required a PhD in electronics to program!! Because on the ESQ-1 keyboard, internal banks are 10 sounds each, so bank 3 sound 4 was the 34th patch. No more remembering what sounds I needed for each song. And I just made a "Combi" for every song I played that was not on the Combi I called "Base" so to move from song to song was just a matter of rolling the jog wheel to the right song name. One I spent time with it and learned how to make the sound layers it turned out to be a great sounding board. I may now spring for a Korg Nautilus, the board that replaced the Kronos. With the live horns standing out front, but mixed WAY back out in front, nobody knew the horn sounds were 90% from me and 10% from them. I have used that Krome blending the horn section with the EPS sampler's horn section to be the supporting horns in that Southside Johnny band I was in. I still need to do something about the lighting in here, but that will have to wait for a while as I pay for other stuff I have done or bought in the last few months. All that I need now is an idea to write something about! I should neaten up the wiring, which is an amazing feat of engineering in itself, but I can do that any time. So with the guitars all hung by the chimney with care, Like locating things that are not where they used to be, but I am fine with that. In other news, Windows 11 has not caused ONE problem as far as operation, and I have updated 5 of my 6 computers. I just finished installing Sonar 64 bit, and just before I replied to this thread I tested and can now use the TSS-1 in a Real Band song. It's the interfacing with VSTi that have thrown me for a loop. (And 2 drum machines.) All of that works well, as I have a 12 channel mixer and I can mix the synth sounds that way when playing live. I know GM is General MIDI but I think mine may only have Lieutenant MIDI.Īren't the sounds in ANY synthesizer GM? As I sit here I have an M-Audio Keystation 61 MK3 connected to an MX8 MIDI thru box which is in turn outputted to 6 synth modules in a rack and that to another MX8 MIDI through box, which is in turn connected to my Nord Electro 4, the Ensoniq ESQ-1, the Ensoniq EPS 16+ and the Korg Krome. (Wiping my computer to put Win 11 on it also erased Pro Tools but as little as I used it, I won't even reload it.)Īll I want to do is keep my VSTs in a folder called "64bit VST" and have them work.ĭon't any of your synths have a GM sound set? ![]() I am sure there are things about MIDI that I don't even need to know, but I don't understand why VSTs don't just work. I feel like I did when I was 4 and sat down at a piano for the first time. ![]() I don't even know what to copy from the old computer (downstairs) to the new installation (upstairs). Yet I may have to install Cakewalk to use TSS-1, which is a really handy synth. ![]() It's a file names TSS-1.dll like every other VST instrument I have, yet I can't make it work without the laborious and space eating installation of Cakewalk on a just freshly wiped computer that now runs Win 11, a program that I don't really want and won't use. And there's when the WHY questions start. I can copy it from one computer to another, search for it on the new computer, but unless Cakewalk is installed I can't detect it or load it into RB. Like Cakewalk's TSS-1 as an example (in Real Band). I struggle to get VSTs to work and don't know why a VST and a VSTi are not the same thing. I get that you assign a synth to a track and control the synth from a controller, but the HOW it works behind the obvious "you transmit note numbers and velocities to the synth" levels there has to be more. I know some controller numbers, but I know nothing about SYSex, or the WHY and WHEREFORE of how plugins actually work. As much as I have used MIDI in performance over the years, and my rig in the Motown band was AMAZING to see in action, when I sit at a computer I am a total MIDIot.
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