[RWP] Banks, Patches and .ins files

[indigo]

In any new synth you load into Reaper, always try first sending bank and 
program change messages from yourmidi keyboard.
The same knobs or buttons you use to select internal sounds in your 
Tyros should send out bank and program messages to Reaper.
The synth you have loaded may or may not respond to midi program change, 
you have to try it to find out.

I'm not sure if Sonar's inst files will have any meaning for  Reaper, I 
doubt it, but let us know if it does.
If a synth uses standard .fxp foremat for its patches; or .fxb format 
for its banks, you can use Reaper's default preset loader to find and 
load the synth's patches and banks
Stick to Reaper's setting of the plugIn's original interface, and the 
same screen resolution, get help finding Reaper's default preset loader 
and create a hot spot for finding it quickly.
Reaper's default preset load dialog does not work for any format except 
FXB and FXP, though, so your only recourse for synths that use other 
formats is to spot up the X Y coordinates of their propriatary preset 
loader, wherever it might be located on their original interface.
I use a method similar to Hot Spot Clicker in Window-Eyes to find and 
play the presets in FM8; also in Absynth 5, Zebra, Helix  and others 
that have totally bit map image interfaces.
Indigo L


On 4/16/2012 8:43 PM, Alexander Westphal wrote:
> Hello all!
>
> The subject tells all my questions shortly.
>
> 1. How can I tell Reaper, what bank or patch I want to use for a synth?
> E.G. the Roland Groove Synth has banks and patches or my midi keyboard.
> There I can't browse presets.
> 2. I read about supporting .ins files. How do they have to be that they
> can be imported in reaper? I have a file for the Tyros, but there are
> implemented all 4 models. Can I take this file as it originally is?