Cubase scriptmaker?

[hangee_77]

I am making script for my E-synth which has up to 1000 sample presets and more than 200 factory presets.

Does anyone know how to generate the scriptmaker so that I can access beyond value 127 in program change.

Thanks.

 

Hanjaya C.

[SoundWrangler]

I don't know the E-synth, but since MIDI prog number values only go from 0-127 by definition (although some, including all General MIDI spec instruments/banks may call these 1-128), I'm guessing that all these presets are handled just like in any other instrument with more than 128 patches - they're organized into banks.

A Bank Select msg consists of two bytes, the MSB & LSB (most/least signicant bits), and numbers used for selecting banks are different, not only among manufacturers, but even between different models from a single manuf. Look in your synth's manual, under the MIDI implementation details, for Bank Select (Controller number 0,32) - there you should see a listing of your program banks, & the MSB/LSB values corresponding to each. In the patchnames doc. for Cubase, these are the 2nd & 3rd numbers within the brackets for each program (the first being the prog. number itself).

 

The format is [sub-menu level, prog number, Bank MSB, Bank LSB], followed by the patchname as it appear in Cubase's pop-up selector. (BTW, you can modify these names to make them more descriptive if you like!)

For example, in the patch doc for my XP-60 (which uses MSB 81, LSB 0 for Bank A, the first patch in my Preset A bank is:

[p3,0,81,0] 64voicePiano

 

Be sure to create nested sub-menus within your banks - 128 names in a single vertical list is too unwieldy! That's why I've got p3 (instead of p2) on this particular patch, it appears in a 2nd-level submenu, which appears because I created a "g2" sub-menu header & it therefore ends up looking like this:

[g1] Preset-A

[g2] Pianos & Clav

[p3,0,81,0] 64voicePiano

 

Hope this helps....

[hangee_77]

Thanks for the reply!

 

But I'm not really understand about the MSB/LSB value. I looked at the synth's midi implementation chart, it says control change remarks 0-31 64-97 and what does it mean?

 

The manual also tells that to change program banks via MIDI SysEx that allows to access presets higher than 128 (midi), send:

Bn 00 00 20 II Cn pp

where, n=midi chan# (0-F), II=bank# (00-06), pp=preset in the new bank (00-7F)

Do you have any idea about this?

 

Actually I was thinking to organize by bank, ex:

bank1 (preset 0-99), banks2 (preset 100-199), and so on...

 

Thanks.

 

Hanjaya C.

[SoundWrangler]

Ouch! Gotta love those geeks that write the MIDI implementation section. My hexadecimal is REALLY rusty (and/or non-existent), but let's see: The true MIDI values sent are hexadecimal (base 16; that is, 0-9, and then A-G. In patchname documents (& also within Cubase & other MIDI programs, they spare you this, showing you the conventional decimal equivalents to those gnarly hex numbers.

In my Roland synth's MIDI implementation (in the details; NOT the 1-page chart), under the sub-heading for Bank Change 0,32, they present a little table, with the MSB & LSB for each bank (which in your patchname doc. precedes each prog. number).

That verbiage you quote doesn't sound like the info you require, & doesn't normally appear in the 1-page implementation chart. Besides, they don't even tell what the Cn is supposed to mean! Almost always, the MSB is two numerical digits, & so is the LSB - to avoid confusion they tend to avoid the A-G stuff. Again, check in the multi-page DETAILS about the MIDI implementation.

Not a functional answer yet, I know, but hopefully a step in the right direction...