Korg O5/RW bank not changing

Dudes:

The GM bank works fine and so do all its patches but changing to bank A has no effect.

I've done nothing to the instrument definition or setup which was working last time I used it.

Should I re-import the definition?

Thanks - rev

JR:

Done everything but 6. Don't know how to do that. No sysex in the file.

I even re-imported the definition and recalculated the bank change numbers, no joy.

The answer is here somewhere...

jim

Good suggestions but I've been through them all and found nothing wrong. The bank change numbers are the same ones I've used for years and I wrote them on the cover of the manual because I went through hell getting the unit working when I first bought it.

rev

>Ok, have you tried the Korg .ins
Yep, that's the one that's loaded now and the one that's always worked. I've never edited the names so I'm used to whatever ships with the file. What I don't understand is why nothing happens when selecting the A bank. If it made no sound or switched to the wrong bank at least I'd have a response to chase down but no response at all doesn't give me a clue. It just remains on GM bank.

You'll have to explain that sysex stuff sometime, I never got into that.

Good idea, there are message filter settings in the global settings. Plus, don't bank select settings have to be sent on the synths global channel? I always had that set to the default channel 1. These bread & butter midi jobs are fading from my memory in these days of USB and softsynths!

Oh yeh, sysex...
System Exclusive messages or Sysex dumps.
Arm a midi track for record.
In the synth global menu, you'll find the choices to send multi & combi setups as well as program patches individual and all.
Start record
Send the sysex.
You now have a track which when played back to the synth (mute it if you don't want it to), will restore those settings (some synths you have to set it up to recieve a sysex dump, but I think the Korg will act on recieve anyway)
- Provided, the above mentioned midi filter menu is not set to exclude sysex.

Somewhere I heard there is a Korg X series PC editor program, which will not only manage these sysex files, but also create the instrument definitions (patch names are contained within the sysex dumps)
Jim

Any luck? I just had a chance to test my old X5 - bank & program select works, but sent over the synths global channel in Multi Mode.
Also found out why the Sonar definitions 05r/w drum programs don't show up - they're not in the definition. I dragged the folder for the X5DR drum names onto the 05r/w one and that fixes it.

Jim

Have you checked the filters in Global settings of the 05/RW? If the filter for patch/bank changes is ON, then the device will not receive those commands, despite it are correct in the instrument definition file.
Greetings.