soundsubs
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.

thanks for your response unfortunately i am a novice at this and have a file  which is supposed to be correct????
 
can you point me to an example of a file, part of one, or set of instructions that is correct
 
thanks
 
selected areas that may be relevant from the file i have
 
;----------------------------------------------------------------------
.Patch Names
 
[Casio CTK7000 WK7500 Bank 00]
0=GM Tone 001 GM Piano 1
1=GM Tone 002 GM Piano 2
2=GM Tone 003 GM Piano 3
3=GM Tone 004 GM Honky-Ton
 
[Casio CTK7000 WK7500 Bank 01]
0=Piano 004 Grand Piano
1=Piano 008 Bright Piano
2=Piano 025 Elec.Grand Piano
3=Piano 022 Honky-Tonk 2
4=E.Piano 008 Dyno E.Piano 1
5=E.Piano 004 Fm E.Piano 1
 
.Controller Names

[Casio CTK-7000 WK-7500]
BasedOn=Yamaha XG Controllers
0=0-Bank Select MSB
1=1-Modulation
5=5-Portamento Time
6=6-Data Entry MSB
7=7-Master Volume
10=10-Panpot
11=11-Expression
32=32-Bank Select LSB
38=38-Data Entry LSB
64=64-Sustain
 
.Instrument Definitions

[Casio CTK-7000 WK-7500]
BankSelMethod=1
Control=Casio CTK-7000 WK-7500
Patch[0]=Casio CTK7000 WK7500 Bank 00
Patch[1]=Casio CTK7000 WK7500 Bank 01
Patch[2]=Casio CTK7000 WK7500 Bank 02
Patch[3]=Casio CTK7000 WK7500 Bank 03
Patch[4]=Casio CTK7000 WK7500 Bank 04
Patch[5]=Casio CTK7000 WK7500 Bank 05
Patch[6]=Casio CTK7000 WK7500 Bank 06
Patch[7]=Casio CTK7000 WK7500 Bank 07
Patch[8]=Casio CTK7000 WK7500 Bank 08
Patch[9]=Casio CTK7000 WK7500 Bank 09
Patch[10]=Casio CTK7000 WK7500 Bank 10
Patch[11]=Casio CTK7000 WK7500 Bank 11
Patch[100]=Casio CTK7000 WK7500 Bank 100
Patch[104]=Casio CTK7000 WK7500 Bank 104
Patch[120]=Casio CTK7000 WK7500 Bank 120
Patch

=General MIDI
 
 
 

I guess my question lies more so along the lines of should we ever have to manually edit the Master.ins file?  Why check for typos?  Isn't the file automatically updated depending on what instrument definitions are "defined" and "imported" in the MIDI preferences?

soundsubs
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.

spoke to cakewalk and for me this was the solution
 

 
 this presumes you have selected your instrument in preferences > mid > instruments and assigned it to all 16 channels if not then select the specific midi channel for the instrument that has multiple banks 

Thanks. I could have swore I selected my channel!  That's hardware basics right there... [huge facepalm]!!!  Anyway, tried it just now, and the NanoSynth is now responding correctly.  I've done a couple restarts since the last test, so perhaps that cleared up any Sonar junk.