SONAR stores these names in an instrument definition. Many instruments have descriptive names for their banks and patches.
Every time SONAR starts playback at the beginning of a project, the bank and patch settings for the track are set to these initial values. Most instruments have between 1 and 8 banks, but MIDI supports up to 16,384 banks of 128 patches each (that’s over 2 million patches).The Bank and Patch controls in the Console view and Track Inspector control the initial bank and patch of a track during playback. Patches are normally organized into groups of 128, called banks.
The name comes from the early days of synthesizers, for which you physically rewired (using patch cords) the oscillators and modulators to produce different sounds. Thanks.Electronic keyboards and synthesizers often contain hundreds or thousands of different sounds. If this info would be better in another sub-forum section, please move it. (That forum did not allow zip files or any other odd filetype to be uploaded, hence the simple copy-from, paste into notepad, save-as *.ins. When copied from their respective code list-box in that post and saved as an INS file these can be loaded into Reaper, as-is, with the add-on plugin pack that includes the ReaControlMIDI plugin.
They can be found in another forum, posted here CTK-4000/5000 WK-500 Instrument Definition for Cakewalk While doing so I created three INS files for the 8 following Casio keyboard model numbers:ĬTK-4000, LK-270, & WK-200 (all use the same file)ĬTK-5000, WK-500, & CDP-200R (all use the same file)ĬTK-6000 & WK-6500 (both use the same file)
I tried to find an Instrument Definition file for my keyboard model number and realized I'd have to create my own. Unfortunately, not many people realize how much Casio boards have improved in the last few years and 3rd-party support for them is sorely and mistakenly lacking. A heads-up for anyone needing an Instrument Definition file for some Casio keyboards.