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To Import a Roland Instrument Definition
1. Choose Options-Instruments to display the Assign Instruments dialog box.
2. Click Define to display the Define Instruments and Names dialog box.
3. Click Import to display the Import Instrument Definitions dialog box.
4. Choose the file that contains instrument definitions for your manufacturer,
which in this case is the
ROLAND.INS file, and click Open. SONAR displays a
list of all the instrument definitions in the file.
5. Scroll down the list, select the Roland XP-10, and click OK.
6. Click Close to close the Define Instruments and Names dialog box.
The instrument definition you imported should now appear in the Uses
Instrument list in the Assign Instruments dialog box.
When you import an instrument definition, it is added to the master instrument
definition file M
ASTER.INS. The contents of this file determines the list of
instruments that appear in the Assign Instruments dialog box.
Now let’s assign the XP-10 definition to some channels on a MIDI output:
To Assign the Roland XP-10 Bank and Patch Names to a MIDI
Output
1. Choose Options-Instruments to display the Assign Instruments dialog box.
2. Let’s assign all 16 MIDI channels on output 1 to use the XP-10 bank and patch
names:
• Drag through the first 16 items in the Port/Channel list to select them.
• From the Uses Instrument list, click Roland XP-10. A black line connects
the two lists.
3. To save these changes permanently, enable the Save Changes for Next Session
option.
4. Click OK to apply your changes.
From now on, any track that uses any of channels 1 to 16 on output 1 displays
bank and patch names from the XP-10.
To check this, assign a MIDI track in a project to Ch 1, assign the Output field to 1-
Roland XP-10, and then examine the dropdown lists in the Bnk and Pch fields of
the track. You should see bank and patch names that are specific to the Roland XP-
10.
Let’s check some of our bank and patch lists to see if they match up with what we
see on the screen of the XP-10. On the XP-10, let’s look at the Vari 1 bank: if we
look at tone (tone means the same as patch) #005 in the Vari 1 bank on the XP-10,
we see that it is called Detuned EP1. If we change the bank on a MIDI track to
128-Roland XP-10 Var #01, and look at the menu of patches in the Pch field, we see
that there is no name listed for patch #004 (Roland numbers its patches from 1 to
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