> From: ricardorucier
>
> I'm currently programming all of my midi songs in Cubase.
>
> I have a hardware sequencer that accepts standard midi files
> and converts them to my sequencer language, so transferring
> data is no problem.
>
> My question is, how do I assign a midi track in cubase to
> correspond with a patch on the Chroma Polaris?
>
> For instance, if I want to use patch A6, what program number
> would that be? Do I just select a program number, or do I
> select a number + a bank... or do I use sysex information in Cubase?
>
> The worse case scenario is simply assigning each midi track
> to the appropriate channel in Cubase, then manually changing
> the patches live on stage. But my goal is to have all of my
> songs pre programmed with all of the program change info, so
> as each new song loads, the polaris changes it's patches
> automatically without me having to change them manually.

Program number 1 (or 0, if your sequencer presents zero-based program
numbers) selects "no program", so turns off the channel, while program
numbers 2 to 128 (or 1 to 127) select programs A1 through K7. There is no
way to select K8 through K12.

You should use the MIDI basic channel (typically channel 1) to change the
Main keyboard sound, basic+2 to change the Link keyboard sound, basic+3 to
change the Sequencer keyboard sound, or basic+4 to basic+8 for up to five
more sounds that are only accessible through the MIDI (or Chroma) interface.
If you set up multiple sounds, they all compete for the same six channels,
though.

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Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco
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