I'll answer as best I can. I have the Korg PA80. It can be done, but not as a registration on the PA80. It can't really be done from within the PA80 at all, simply because the registrations will not call up the proper Motif ES banks. eg. Motif's banks are 63 MSB - 0 LSB, 63 MSB - 1 LSB, etc. I'm pretty certain without turning my PA80 on, that most of the non GM banks use 121 as MSB for instruments and 120 for drums. Also, the Motif uses 1-128 as patch and midi data numbers, while most other midi synths including the PA80, use 0-127.

The workaround is to take the style out of the PA80, convert it to midi data, open the data up in a midi sequencer, reassign the desired patches - banks to each part of the style, convert back to Korg style format, and then it will work. I have actually done this, and I have a good bit of experience modifying styles, and doing just one style this way can take me a couple of hours or more.

I just don't have that kind of time, and even if I did, I can't see at all how the time vs potential results would be worth it. If my motivation is to get better results / sounds on a recording, it would be sooo much easier to just record an entire song in the PA80, save it as a midifile, and then open up the file in a sequencer, convert the bank / patch data in to correspond to instruments in the ES and my softsynths the way I'd like it to.


AJ



[This message has been edited by Bluezplayer (edited 08-26-2005).]