Hi Frank,
I personally don't use dozens & dozens of different styles, I have a collection of favourites, and for those I went to quite a bit of trouble editing them , insofar as making sure I didn't have program changes, volume changes etc happening within the various style parts (unless absolutely neessary.)
Fortunately OMB has global settings for volume, program changes etc as well as being able to put these settings into individual tracks. Allowed me to easily identify in the stylemaker section of the program, where the program changes existed.
I then made sure all the intruments were uniform throughout the style ie piano's were just say on midi channel 13, guitar on channel 14 , strings on 15 etc I was the able to delete any superflous program changes embedded in the tracks and just use the global program change for each of the midi channels. Can be a fair bit of work, depending on the style. A lot of mine are commercial styles, and some converted styles and they needed a bit more work than psr styles. To me it was worth it though, should I ever change sound sources again.
May not help in your situation ,though.
best wishes
Rikki
Originally posted by Frank L. Rosenthal:
Rikki, you are absolutely correct. For a midi file you could load in advance all the appropriate instruments in the appropriate channels and you could play the file. However, if there are program changes further down the midi file on the same channel you would be out of luck....dogs barking instead of humans whistling.... You can, of course, do the same with styles,i.e., preload the instruments and play. Yes, there are alternatives and I will find a way but first I will likely just load up a Drum Kit Bank and a Bass Bank and use LiveSynth Pro for the rest. In other cases where I am really fussy I will preload all the instruments and save it as a scene in forte and call it up with a program change number. The trouble with this is that it takes longer to load.
[This message has been edited by Frank L. Rosenthal (edited 05-07-2005).]
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