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At 2:54 PM -0400 9/3/01, Tom Ritchford wrote: >Some synths like Continuous Controller 32 for MIDI Bank Select. > >I should know because I spent a reasonable amount of time this weekend >entering program changes for a Yamaha VL-70, which has multiple banks, >into my Midi Mitigator, and had to enter "controller 32, value 0" (or 1) >about a zillion times. Controller 32 is the Least Significant Byte (LSB) associated with Controller 0. As far as I know, most devices don't use the LSB because the MSB allows selection of up to 128 banks. The VL70 has an unusual implementation of bank select, since it has only twelve banks. It appears that Yamaha is allowing for multiple categories of banks, in order to accommodate various General MIDI formats such as XG. In order to select among the VL70's four main banks, the MSB (Controller 0) is set to 33 and the LSB (Controller 32) is set to 0, 1, 2, or 3. In order to select among the VL-XG banks (banks 112-119) the MSB is set to either 97 or 81 and the LSB is set to the corresponding bank number 112-119. Has anyone encountered similar implementations? A very informative discussion of MIDI Bank Select can be found at: http://www.borg.com/~jglatt/tutr/bank.htm -- ______________________________________________________________ Richard Zvonar, PhD (818) 788-2202 http://www.zvonar.com http://RZCybernetics.com http://www.cybmotion.com/aliaszone http://www.live365.com/cgi-bin/directory.cgi?autostart=rz