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Checking Bank Numbers
You can calculate bank numbers by using the methods described in “Assigning the
Bank Select Method” on page 577, but you might find it easier to use the following
method:
To Check the Bank Numbers
1. Set up a MIDI track to record from your MIDI keyboard or module.
2. Click the Record button to start recording, and change banks on your
keyboard.
3. Stop recording, and open the Event List view.
4. The bank change you recorded is displayed in the Event List view in this way:
in the Data column you’ll see what kind of bank change method your keyboard
uses (probably Normal), and in the column to the right of that data is the
number of the bank you changed to.
When we changed the Roland XP-10 to the User 1 bank, we recorded a bank
number of 8192.
To Create a Patch Name List for Your Own Sounds
1. You could create a new list by copying and renaming an existing list (right-
click a list and choose New Patch Name List from the popup menu), but
since the instrument definition we imported for the XP-10 includes a list
called Roland XP-10 User Tone 1, let’s just edit that one: in the Names Tree
window on the right, right-click the Roland XP-10 User Tone 1 list and choose
Add Patch Name from the popup menu.
A new patch field appears, with the text “0 = 0” inside.
2. Replace the first number in the patch field with the number of a patch you
stored in User Bank 1 on the Roland.
3. Replace the second number in the patch field with the name you made up for
the patch you just gave a number to, and press Enter.
4. Assign names to as many patch numbers as you want—the numbers between
0 and 127 that you don’t assign any names to show up in the Track view Pch
column just as patch numbers with no other names.
5. When you finish assigning names, drag your edited patch list to the Roland
XP-10 Patch Names for Banks tree in the left window.
6. Enter 8192 as the bank number, which we know is the correct bank number
from the previous procedure.
7. Click the Close button to close the Define Instruments and Names dialog box
and click OK to close the Assign Instruments and Names dialog box.
Now you can select the 8192-Roland XP-10 User Tone 1 bank in the Bnk field of a
MIDI track, and then examine the patch list in the Pch field: you should see the
patch list that you just created.
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