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You then add sub-sections surrounded by square brackets.

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If you want more control (and you are prepared to do more digging in the reference manuals for your equipment), you can add the additional sections, described below, between the Patch Names section and the Instruments section.įirst, you need to put the section heading into your file, like this: I am going to cover it here, however, as it may be the only other section you need to get access to your sounds. The instruments section of the file always seems to be the last section, as it ties together all of the other sections. Your resultant Patch Names section should look something like:

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You can have as many bank sub-sections as you like - just work your way through the bank and voice list in your manual until you have the complete set listed (this can be a big job for a modern synth with hundreds or thousands of patches. Additionally, I only listed 64 patches instead of 128 and this is because the Control Freak only has 64 patch memory locations. The reason that I didn't put names in my Control Freak definition is that the device is programmable and I tend to shift the patches around to different numbers to suit my needs - this means that my list of names would be ever-changing. The names you use should reflect the names listed in the voice list for your device (back to the manual again). Normally you would provide a name after the equals sign when listing your patches, like this: You can define up to 128 patches in each bank sub-section and the numbering can go from 0 through 127 or 1 through 128, depending on your device (check the reference section of your manual). Underneath the bank name sub-heading we get the list of presets, patches, programs (whatever you and/or your device manual like to call them): Within the Patch Names section, any sub-section heading like this is treated as a name for a bank of patches - there's probably a limit to the length of the name you can use, but I don't know it. We then get a sub-section heading, surrounded by square brackets: The section header is followed by a couple of blank lines - I learned to write these files by looking at other examples and I don't think the blank lines do anything other than make the file more readable, but I keep them in anyway. This is the first section that does useful work. The following sections will describe each part of this definition and show you what they do.Īny line beginning with a semi-colon character is treated as a comment so, in the example, there is a description of the device that the file is intended to define and my name as the author. Cakewalk Instrument definition file for the This is most easily explained by example, so here's a really simple definition that I created for my Kenton Control Freak: The files have a particular layout that it is important to understand and use. Notepad), but you have to save them with a.

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The most obvious difference that an instrument definition file makes is that you can easily select the full range of sounds provided by your instrument from within a MIDI track's properties dialog box, but the definition also comes into play when you insert controller messages and when you play MIDI drums into a track, as you will see individual drum names instead of note names in the Event View.Ĭakewalk instrument definition files are simple text files, so you can create them in any text editor (e.g. Software packages use instrument definition files to allow them to control any hardware MIDI devices that you may have attached to your computer.