Bank Select Method for QS8

[rjt]

I have been importing Instrument definitions of banks into Sonar from the QS8. Here is the problem.... the "factory banks" work fine. Let's say they are banks 1=factory User, 2- Rom1....to 5 = GM). For Ease of selecting banks, I would like to keep all of the instrument definitions together, so bank 6 would be pads, bank 7 would be lead sounds etc. Obviously, the QS only holds 5 banks (if you don't include cards...{by the way.... can you pick card banks from inside Sonar??}). So here is the question, if I just define them as bank 6, 7 etc, it defaults to preset bank1 and picks that sound... is there a way I can tell it to send a "user bank" message when using bank 6 or 7 or whatever?

Hope this is clear (probably as mud!) Thanks in advance!

 

[SBax]

Can't directly answer your question but I've done this: With ProAudio 9 I was able to load the Cakewalk definitions for everything and the two cards I have: Vintage Keyboards and Vintage Synths. I had to get these card definitions from the disks that came with the cards (of course same thing with the standard 1-5 banks). I would think that you would have to write up the definitions and I have no idea how to do that.

But, I can't believe anyone would need every single patch in the QS8. There are plenty of crappy ones in there. I would pick a section of bad ones and edit them to your pads or leads and use them.

I haven't loaded the Vintage Keyboards and Vintage Synth card definitions into Sonar yet but I'm sure it will work.

 

[rjt]

You can do instrument definition files by hand. However, if you have a midiquest editor for the QS series (or any synth for that matter) it will import instrument definition files.

As an aside, the question about instrument definitions was somewhat larger than the question with QS. For example, with the Roland JV 1080, I have a number of customized banks, one for new age, one for jazz, one for... well you get the idea. It would be nice to load the sounds in the JV, (well now the XV) and be able to select them from sonar. Unfortunately, this problem arose since I switched to the Sierra midi system from Frontier Designs (the rest of their stuff is first rate) and it does not have multi-client midi drivers. I used to open both Cake and Mquest and edit sounds as needed.... alas, no more!!!