Sonar X3 instrument definitions for Roland FP-30

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2018/08/02 07:35:40 (permalink)

Sonar X3 instrument definitions for Roland FP-30

Respected forum members,
 
if anyone owns Roland FP-30 digital piano, please let me know if some of the substitute instrument definitions, available from Cakewalk's download sections, can be 100% used with FP-30?
As it is, this particular line of products isn't defined in here: https://www.cakewalk.com/Support/Knowledge-Base/2007013272/Instrument-Definitions
 
The closest thing available may be FP-7, but that particular piano is way more advanced than my FP-30 and I doubt if it will work properly.
 
Thanks for any answers.
 
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Ivan
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    Re: Sonar X3 instrument definitions for Roland FP-30 2018/08/02 09:08:33 (permalink)
    I don't own any of these keyboards, but I have compared the tone list between the two.  It appears that the patch list of the FP-30 is a subset of the FP-7.  It might be a matter of simply editing the FP-7 INS file (it's a text file after all) to remove references to the patches that do not exist in the FP-30.  The controllers look very similar so you should not have to touch these.

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    Re: Sonar X3 instrument definitions for Roland FP-30 2018/08/02 13:58:30 (permalink)
    What I did for my FP-30 was use the GM2 instrument definition as a starting point, since it is GM2 compliant. The FP-30 is smart enough that if the instrument definition specifies a bank/patch combination that the keyboard doesn't actually have, it will  temporarily "copy" the most similar voice that it does have into that bank/patch. So that is another possible approach.
     
    I did also look at the definition for the FP-7, but I can't remember why I decided not to use it.
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