importing instrument definition

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2005/07/13 18:24:26 (permalink)

importing instrument definition

Are there any tool that can import instrument patch/program into cakewalk's instrument definition. I know you can painfully create or download the ins files for popular hardware synth but these are static. It doesn't address the synth's custom patch or patch in softsynth/sampler.
I think that it would be great if you can run a program to read the bank/patch info and convert it to the ins file.
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    RE: importing instrument definition 2005/07/13 19:29:02 (permalink)
    I think that it would be great if you can run a program to read the bank/patch info and convert it to the ins file.


    An ins file is a text file with the bank/patch names (plus controller names, if it's done thoroughly) so it's no big deal. It's fairly easy to extract the names from a sysex dump when you know the sysex file structure of a specific synth.

    I've done that years and years ago for one of my old hardware synths, just for fun, with a simple Basic program .

    As for softsynths - they don't have ins files; they come with their own built-in patch names. They should be visible to Sonar, too, but some aren't programmed correctly in that respect.

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    RE: importing instrument definition 2005/07/14 16:57:09 (permalink)
    The value in such tool would be the structure for the different synths. I'm surprised that with all these years of midi, such tool doesn't exist.
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    RE: importing instrument definition 2005/07/14 19:57:01 (permalink)
    I think you're looking for UniQuest or MIDIQuest.

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