Sonar Instrument Definition problems

Posted on Feb 19, 2003 10:05 pm
guitar ed
Member Since: Nov 19, 2002

Hi, guys. I'm having some trouble with these dadburn instrument definitions. I have a Yamaha W7 keyboard. It has three banks of 128 midi voices on each. I can only save edited voices on one bank, which is called the Factory Internal Bank. I can import the ins file, and all is well, except that my edited sounds don't show up in the list. Now, I know I can manually type in each voice and have them there, but what happens if I have 3 or 4 different banks that I use? Is it possible to have more than one instance of an ins file in there at the same time? Maybe Yamaha 1 and Yamaha 2? I can edit the master ins file that came with Sonar, and I actually got my sounds with my patch names to show up in the list, but it seems like a pain to have to import a new ins file every time I want to change the bank. Does this make sense? I use Soundiver to dump different libraries into my keyboard, and what I want to do is load the library into the synth, then have the patch names already there in Sonar waiting for me. If I need to be more clear, please say so and I'll try again, but this is really bothering me. What does a guy do after a few years when he has a ton of voice banks? I think there should be a way to have all my edited banks in Sonar, then be able to access the sounds when I load a particular bank into the keyboard. Anyone wanna take a stab at this one? I would appreciate it! Thanks

Ed

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