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midi patch/program/timbre changes

Using a laptop running windows 95, noteworthy of course, into a mark of the unicorn parallel to midi adapter(motu) out to a roland u-220 rack mount synthesizer.  the sound is great, but am having trouble with midi comands. when i set the midi instrument to a patch number(numeric based 1) noteworthy sends the correct patch information, but the instrument listed in the patch changes.  for instance, i am trying to use a patch number with a flute, when played the unit goes to the correct patch, but the patch changes instruments. how can i set the correct patch in noteworthy, without sending an instrument change(timbre). or is this a synthesizer issue?

Re: midi patch/program/timbre changes

Reply #1 –
I have observed something similar to this once.

To insure you get what you want....

For all MIDI Patch Instructions,
always select the box for "Send Bank Select"

with the values -> MSB: 0, LSB: 0

Re: midi patch/program/timbre changes

Reply #2 –
thanks, i will try that next. i found under the many menus of the roland unit that i could disable patch change comands. this seems to have worked, and i am able to set the instruments to what i want, and then write them to memory on the roland unit.  quite time consuming but it gets it done.