ALSO, I can't access the Preset 3, the User or my Eurocard. : With General MIDI turned ON, I see the GM drum kit, but have the situation described above.
: I earlier asked for an instrument definition file that describes all of the percussion instruments of each patch 120-127 for each bank, because when I switch to Drum Mode in Cakewalk, I see the different Kits for my Dr5 (and some Roland and Yamaha stuff that I can probably remove) but not the Alesis stuff. Once I did this, then I could load both the standard Alesis INS and Q-card INS files into Cakewalk, and assign whatever midi channels I wanted to use to those respective channels.īTW - You want Gen Midi mode turned off using this method. If an instrument definition is not available for your instrument, and you are familiar with MIDI and how it works, you can use Cakewalk to create your own instrument definition. Instrument definitions for many popular MIDI instruments are included with Cakewalk or are available on the Cakewalk website ( ).
It almost takes knowing how to write your own INS files to get it to work properly. An instrument definition is a file that contains the names of the banks, patches, note names, bank select method, and controllers of an instrument. I found loading the Q-card INS definition files into Cakewalk would overwrite the standard Alesis INS files that were alread loaded into Cake, until I renamed these Q-Card INS files inside of Cakewalk first. The standard Alesis INS file doesn't have definitions for any of the Q-card slots A and B. file for Cakewalk (or the comparible Cakewalk INS file for whatever Q-card you want to use) to access the sounds on that Q-card. You would have to use the Eurocard instrument def. (You can set Cakewalk up to use different instrument definition files for different midi channels). You may want to ensure that Cakewalk is using the Alesis Instrument definition file for channel 10, and it isn't assigned to a DR5, etc. How do you switch to "drum mode" in Cakewalk 7.0? I normally use midi channel 10 in Cakewalk, with the bank select method set as Controller 0. In Reply to: help - this is driving me nuts! posted by Michael on Octoat 11:20:50:
Firstly I'd suggest looking at this KB Article because it has links to a couple of INS file archives: Secondly you could look here because there's another INS file archive here: Thirdly there's a free program which will generate INS files for a number of synths here: Fourthly there's the very comprehensive Cakewalk INS Tutorial here: Fifthly there are some great examples and further instructions on how to make your own defs here: And last but NOT least, there's Craig Anderton's excellent article at SOS here: Hope that helps.Re: help - this is driving me nuts! Re: help - this is driving me nuts! Instrument Definition Files - Cakewalk Sonar INS FilesĪs this topic seems to come up fairly regularly and having several hardware synths, which I've either had to fish the net for defs or create my own, and in view of the fact that some online resources which older posts refer to, have now gone like the Cakewalk Net site, I thought I'd summarise some of the current ones which are left and also create a post with a title which should pop-up straightaway when searching the forum, which I hope comes across as helpful to people.