I am using a Roland RS-9 and Cakewalk Home Studio 2004 XL. I am having difficulty figuring out how to affect the patch change events I want from Cakewalk to the RS-9. I can get the result I desire by inserting a patch change event using what looks like the default GM patch bank descriptions in Cakewalk, but of course these do not match the 512 sounds in the RS-9 unless the RS-9 is in GM mode. And I can only get the desired result once I manually switch the RS-9 for each MIDI channel to the proper performance mode so it can switch to the patch I want.
There's got to be a way to define a bank(s) of patches in Cakewalk that match the complete library of patches in the RS-9 that will allow me to open a Cakewalk project, hit PLAY, and thus assign the patches I want to each MIDI channel in the RS-9 without any manual button-pushing on the RS-9.
Unfortunately, I have been out of the "MIDI world" for about ten years. Back then when I wanted to do a patch change I would simply insert a patch change event that "sent" a "patch number" to the keyboard/tone module and that was that.
Thanks for any help you can offer. I much appreciate it.
Patch Change, Roland RS-9, Cakewalk Home Studio 2004 XL
I'm the "Guest" who asked this question. At least I found the Cakewalk Instrument Definition FTP site :
ftp://ftp.cakewalk.com/pub/InstrumentDefinitions/
But still no def for RS-9 or RS-5.
I also found a very helpful user site that got me up to speed on patch changes. The Roland manual makes a little more sense now.
ftp://ftp.cakewalk.com/pub/InstrumentDefinitions/
But still no def for RS-9 or RS-5.
I also found a very helpful user site that got me up to speed on patch changes. The Roland manual makes a little more sense now.
Finally found def file for RS-5/RS-9:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rolandrs/files/
The Roland site looks great, but it is a total disaster when trying to find stuff like this. Ditto for Cakewalk's site, though I eventually found their def file site.
I'll have to try this file when I get home.
I hope this works, and I hope this info helps others out there.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rolandrs/files/
The Roland site looks great, but it is a total disaster when trying to find stuff like this. Ditto for Cakewalk's site, though I eventually found their def file site.
I'll have to try this file when I get home.
I hope this works, and I hope this info helps others out there.