I've tried and tried to get MIDI back changes/select working in X3 and can't. Was previously working fine for years.
All I get when I click the BANK button next to the track is "none".
Anyone else?
 
 
Problem 2: instrument definitions are also not working at all.

no problems here - all INS files work as do banks and patches.

Make sure you have the master.ini in the right place. Try Users/your name/AppData/Roaming/Cakewalk/ SonarX3 producer/ Master.ini.

thanks john-- you mean the Master.ins right?

Right. 

Turns out there was a typo error in the MASTER.ins file. I had to stare at it for about an hour, but eventually I got it working.
Suggestion to Cakewalk regarding instrument definitions: Sonar should ship with a "known good" set of instrument definitions, and let users delete ones they don't have, which is 43,999 times easier than adding them in manually by hand.

+1 to the instrument definitions

soundsubs
I had to stare at it for about an hour, but eventually I got it working.

So I take it you won the staring contest then? Can you please describe what you found and what you corrected?
 
The reason I ask is that I cannot get Bank Select (via the drop-downs) to work for my Alesis Nano. My JV-1010 works OK, but not the Alesis for some reason. I don't recall issues in the past with an earlier version of Sonar.

i am having the same problem running x3d
i cannot get Bank Select (via the drop-downs) to work for my casio wk-7500
only the gm bank is showing
 
solutions\suggestions welcome
 
thanks

It turns out if you don't have your MASTER.ins setup correctly and imported right, Bank Select is impossible.
In other words, if there are no banks to switch from/to, there is no usage of the bank button.
 
Check there first.