Sonar X3 and Roland XV-5080 expansion board crisis

HI  - apologies if I am posting in the wrong area - I am new to Cakewalk -
 
I hope someone can help - who has a Roland  XV5080 sound Module I would assume would be best to assist
 
I have a Roland XV-5080 with 8 expansion slots all filled as per below
Expansion Cards
A: SR-JV80-08 60&70
B: SR-JV80-19 HOUSE
C: SR-JV80-04 SYNTH
D: SR-JV80-05 WORLD
E: SRX-01 DYNAMIC DRUMS
F: SRX-02 CONCERT PIANO
G: SRX-06 COMPLETE ORCHESTRA
H: SRX-10 BIG BRASS ENSEMBLE
 
I have downloaded the Roland Instrument file and have successfully been able to assign midi channels 1 - 16 to the above including the XV-5080 standard out of the box sounds and Drums
 
Where I am having a problem is that when I define any channel to the expansion cards above in red A - D (only these) and I select the sound I want it defaults to the XV5080 General Midi Patches -
 
 
Sonar does identify all the XV5080 presets as well as the SRX expansions cards and I can change theses accordingly
 
It doesn't matter if I change the Output/Channel for 1-16 to the different XV-default or expansion cards - its only the SR-JV80 ones that default to GM


 
Any help would really be appreciated
I am using an Alesis Q88 midi controller keyboard

See this here on how to do it http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/sep12/articles/sonar-0912.htm
and here http://tweakheadz.com/how-to-build-a-cakewalk-ins-file/
and here https://www.cakewalk.com/Support/Knowledge-Base/2007013272/Instrument-Definitions
 
And here has the definition prepared for you http://www.lilchips.com/roland.htm does not cover you XV-5080 but you should be able to use the files provided edit them in note pad and import into SONAR.
 
Hope that helps
 
 
 
 

What I established - and I hope this will help other XV-5080 users (probably very few as it is an old sound module)
Is that the default Roland *.ins file for the SR-JV series of expansion boards applies to the JV-1010, 1080, 2080, XP-30, XP-50/60/80
 
This I worked out from the link from "Wookie"
 
Example for the Roland SR-JV80-05 World for the 1080
Patch[10752]=Roland SR-JV80-05 World 001-128
Patch[10753]=Roland SR-JV80-05 World 129-255

However for the XV-5080 it is as follows
Patch[11398]=Roland SR-JV80-05 World 001-128
Patch[11399]=Roland SR-JV80-05 World 129-255
 
Thanks all once again - I'll slowly get my head around all the other

Thanks Wookie
 
Great advise as I was overwriting the ins files while trying to work it out and it got a bit all over the place
- so have a copy of the default ins files and then my amended ones saved with proper naming so i can identify

All looking good as I have all 8 expansion boards working now (SRX and SR JV) with the help you and provided
 
Cheers
 
When in Melbourne - Australia look me up and I'll buy you lunch
Andrew

No problem only glad I could help, I can remember the fun and games I had when I first got my JV1080, I had to manually create the definition file for it as it was so new that there were no files available but then that was back in the days of Cakewalk Pro audio.