Need Roland D-110 midi bamk select msb/lsb

[evm1024]

I'm trying to set up a device def file for rosegarden (rgd file) to describe the vintage Roland d-110/d-10 synth. Currently I am hung up because I cannot finnd the MIDI MSB and LSB that select the D-110's banks.

I've been looking over the manuals and just don't see it.

Does anyone have insight to mapping this out?

Regards, Etan

[jpmorris]

Originally Posted by evm1024

I'm trying to set up a device def file for rosegarden (rgd file) to describe the vintage Roland d-110/d-10 synth. Currently I am hung up because I cannot find the MIDI MSB and LSB that select the D-110's banks.

Are you sure it supports bank switching? In the meantime, you can just leave it as 0,0 - if it's invalid or unsupported the machine should just ignore it.

[evm1024]

Not sure that I have the terminology right.

I'm sending (someone else's) midi to the D-110 and do get instrument changes. Not what you might expect. What documentation I have does not clearly (to me) show how to change instruments (timbers in Roland terms).

I have set up the instruments using the Roland supplied numbers.

I think that if there are no D-110/D-10 expers here I'll have to send known control change messages and see what the synth does with them.

Thnks, Ethan

[jpmorris]

This may be a bit late, but here's an RGD file. The ins2rgd converter breaks if you have[*] in the blank list, so I changed it to [0] instead.

http://www.jpmorris.force9.co.uk/music/d110.rgd

Sorry if it's obvious, but just to make sure, but the RGD won't automatically reassign the instruments for you - but it will allow you to see the names of the instruments inside the sequencer, and change banks if the synth allows it (this one doesn't).

[evm1024]

Thanks, I'll gzip that up and give it a try later today. So the * got it.

--Ethan

[altitude909]

I would try the rolandus.com site and DL the manual and/or midi sheet. Modern synths change patches via MSB/LSB and what is what is usually outlined in the manual/midi guide/ or patch cheet sheet. The way that it works is that you have to send 2 midi messages, a MSB (most significant bit) and a LSB (least significant bit). Generally, since I am not familiar with rosegarden, this will be accomplished via midi controller lanes, the same ones you send CC's on. All you need to do is to send the Bank Change MSB 0-127 (CC#0) AND Bank LSB 0-127 (CC#32) with the appropriate numbers for the patch you are looking for. Bear in mind that you HAVE TO SEND BOTH for it to work

[evm1024]

Originally Posted by jpmorris

This may be a bit late, but here's an RGD file. The ins2rgd converter breaks if you have[*] in the blank list, so I changed it to [0] instead.

http://www.jpmorris.force9.co.uk/music/d110.rgd

Sorry if it's obvious, but just to make sure, but the RGD won't automatically reassign the instruments for you - but it will allow you to see the names of the instruments inside the sequencer, and change banks if the synth allows it (this one doesn't).

That helped a lot, Thanks.