Korg X5D, MIDI, HELP ME P L E A S E!!!
Rob Rubin
connected the MIDI cables and can play General MIDI sounds just fine.
I CANNOT figure out how to play the Bank A sounds. I know I have to
send a Bank change message, but I just cannot seem to figure it out.
I'm relatively new at this, so if someone could give me easy
instructions that would be much appreciated.
I have set LOCAL to OFF.
All the values on page 2 in global are set to ENA
Do I need to load a specific Korg MIDI driver? When in the
instruments panel in Cakewalk, there is no option for the Korg. There
is A:SB Midi Synth, B:SB Midi Synth, SB! Live Wave Device, SoundFont
Device, etc, but nothing that directly says Korg.
Veli-Pekka Tätilä
I have the Korg X5 not the D-model and I am also using Cakewalk.
You should have an instrument definition file for your X5. An instrument
definition file will show all of the banks including combis and drums
and all the patch names while you are browsing the patches. It will also
display the drum names in piano roll and names of the supported
controllers (e.g. 74=cutoff, 72 and 73 control attack and release, 01
modhweel, 07 volume, 10 pan, 63, sustain, 91 FX1 level, 93 FX2 level,
122 local control, these come to mind at first). NOte that controller
71 =resonance is not supported as the filters are not resonant.
As for where to get the instrument definition, I can say that one for
the X5DR comes with Cakewalk but it will work just fine with X5 and X5D.
Here's how you import the instrument definition:
I am typing this from memory, so may not be 100% accurate.
1. Find the menu in which you can select the MIDI-ports in Cakewalk,
wasn't it called tools or options?
2. Select "instruments" from the menu.
3. Push the "define" button.
4. Select "import". Then browse to your main Cakewalk directory and
select the file korg.ins".
5. Pick Korg X5DR on the list and hit OK.
6. Then close the dialog which opened when you pressed define.
7. You should be in the view where your MIDI output ports are on the
left and MIDi instrument definitions on the right. On the left side,
select channel one of the MIDI port to which you have connected the X5,
then hold shift, and scroll down the list until you are at channel 16 of
that same MIDi port, click it and release shift. Alternatively, you can
select the first one, hold shift down and use the down arrow to go to
the channel 16 while holding shift. This really sounds much more
complicated than it is, I am talking about selecting multiple objects in
Windows. Anyway, You should now have all 16 MIDi channels selected on
the left. Then select the Korg X5DR MIDI instrument definition on the
right.
8. Chekc the box "save the settings for next time or something like
that" and click ok.
YOu can e-mail me directly if you need more help with Cakewalk.
By the way, here's a good page having hundreds of Korg X5/X5D patches
and lots of info, too :
http://cc.joensuu.fi/~jsimonen/korgypark.html
If you or somebody else has played both the X5 and X5D, it would be
really interesting to knoww what kind of samples they have added in the
D-model. In addition, I would like to know if the same patches sound
identical. I remember reading in Harmony Central that the X5D has better
DA converters and so better overall sound.
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