Re: [Jsynthlib-devel] BankDriver requests

[Steven S. <ste...@co...>]

Hiroo Hayashi wrote:

>Well I might misunderstand you problem.
>
>Steven> Whoops - spoke to soon.  I can request any patch from the synth and save 
>Steven> it in a patchlib, but when I try to store a patch from a patchlib to the 
>Steven> synth, it grabs the GM patch (bank G) at patchNum + 1 and saves it to 
>Steven> the bank I specified.  If I then try to play the patchlib patch, it 
>Steven> plays the GM patch.  What's up with that?  I'm hoping this is familiar 
>Steven> to someone with some experience at writing synth support who can show me 
>Steven> the error of my ways. 
>
>The only problem here is "when I try to store a patch from a patchlib to the 
>synth, it grabs the GM patch (bank G) at patchNum + 1 and saves it to 
>the bank I specified".  In other words, store command sends a patch
>which is next to the patch specified.  Am I correct?
>  
>
Correct-sort of.  I am expecting it to load the patch that I have 
highlighted in the patchlib, but it is getting a GM patch from the 
synthesizer and storing it instead. Here is a more detailed example:  
 From JSL, I select new library.  From 'unsaved library', I select 
Patch->get.  From that dialog, I choose Bank A, patch 27.  Patch A-27 is 
retrieved.  I highlight the patch and select 'store'.  From the dialog I 
select Bank E, patch 9.  Patch 10 from Bank G gets stored at Bank E, 
patch 9.  Obviously, its only doing that because I must be telling it to 
do that, I just can't see where I'm telling it to do that.  Any help 
would be appreciated. 

Do you think a different list for synth-driver development might be 
helpful?  Issues like the very hard to decipher Midi Implementation 
documents could be dealt with there along with how to use them in driver 
deveopment.  Just a thought, in case the core developers prefer not to 
deal with these issues.