Emu XL-7 & MP-7 User's Group

Holy.. could I come to you for regular everyday problems? That has 
to be the best-written full explaination I've ever found on a 
community board on the subject of MIDI. Thank you! :)

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--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "steve_the_composer" <smw-mail@p...> 
wrote:
> In MIDI, you can only have patch/preset change command values from 
0 
> to 127.  In the days when most synths [aka music-producing 
computers]
> had 128 presets or less, no one needed to do any bank switching.
> 
> Bank switch commands tell MIDI devices which set (or bank) of 
> programs/patches/presets to use.
> 
> Expanding on robotchas's explanation, CC#0 contains the MSB for 
the 
> Bank Select Command, CC#32 (decimal) contains the LSB for the Bank 
> Select Command.
> 
> Data for each CC [Control Change command] can go from 0 to 127.  
So 
> with 2 CC locations (that is, MSB - LSB) you can have values from 
0 
> to 16383 (128 x 128 banks). With 128 presets, MIDI can 
theoretically 
> select from 2,097,152 presets using bank switching (128 x 128 x 
128--
> if I did the math right).  
> 
> E-Mu ROMS [and USER RAM] are identified by logical addresses.  In 
> essence, the address of each ROM bank is the MSB/LSB number which 
can 
> be selected via CC#0 and CC#32.
> 
> In short,  MSB = ROM ID,  LSB = Bank number within each ROM [or 
user 
> ROM]. 
> 
> That is why the display says: >> Bank << MSB and LSB when you 
press 
> audititon.
> 
> If the E-Mu display says the following:
> 
> Bank  MSB:066 LSB:1  012^1
> [note: numbers here are decimal, not hex]
> 
> it is telling you:
> 
> "Hey, if you want your sequencer to select the current patch, put 
66 
> in CC#0 and 1 in CC#32 and then send a preset change command value 
of 
> 12."
> 
> User RAM has an MSB of 00.
> 
> Multisetups can be selected via Bank Switching using an MSB of 80 
> (decimal).  WARNING: IF YOU HAVE ALTERED YOUR CURRENT MULTISETUP 
BUT 
> HAVE NOT SAVED IT, SAVE IT FIRST IF YOU DON'T WANT TO LOSE IT.
> >>> See archives for more on bank switching of multisetups. <<<
> 
> ==============================================
> Footnotes:
> Since each ROM has its own address [MSB], the order of ROMS in 
slots 
> 0 -> 3 doesn't matter to the E-Mu's User Interface.
> 
> I am familiar with Bank Switching in Cakewalk, so I can't tell 
anyone 
> how to do it in Cubase or other software.
> ==============================================
> Hope this helps someone.
> 
> Apologies for any errors, oversights, omissions, etc.