Have you tried 'Freezing' your edits in the G70 before you transfer it over to the BK?

Mentioned in my last sentence above..

Good luck Diki! Don't go schizophrenic with the dual screen

What was the source of the errant SMF's? Were they commercial GS SMF's, XG, made from scratch on the G70, Recorder captures of G70 arranger play?

Sorry I missed the freeze reference.

Did you have an SRX card in the G70, was the sequence pointing to that?

Also, you remember this thread from Roland-Arranger.com? http://www.roland-arranger.com/smf/index.php?topic=1948.0

Seems some of the kits may be missing from the PC#/00/32 table. Have you double checked to see if the kit called up in the SMF has a kit in the BK with the same PC#/32/00?

I seem to remember some styles that were supposed to call up SRX basses, and kept calling up an trumpet, or something along those lines. As soon as I Makeup Tooled them and saved, they played fine.

In all fairness, when I get a new piece of gear, I generally redo all my SMF's. Not really much point playing old SMF's that point to the old sounds... Might as well not have newer gear for that!

Oh, and have you tried simply saving them as is in the BK again, THEN trying the Makeup Tools on them..?

At least I'll never get lonely...

Diki, when editing on a G70 to play on a BK is not a major update ..maybe a change of drums..They are so similar, I would think there should be no problems...When I take a basic SMF and do all edits in the BK make up tools, it is fine..This is what I want to avoid (time consuming)..

Some of the problem files are XG, that worked fine after edits on the G70...both on Prelude, and E-50/60...but not on BK..Yet the BK has no problem with them being a XG file and allows edits from it's make up tools...The problem is the system message that the G70 adds, and not recognized by the BK...

I think this can easily be fixed by Roland..the systems are nearly identicle (G70 and BK)..

I wonder if the lack of a sequencer on the BK5 could be the problem..Although the E-600 had the same problem as the BK5 and it had a sequencer..

I posted a file on Roland arranger site, and was hoping someone would try it in the BK9...

If you use Sonor (or any other sequencer with this capability), isn't there a 'batch' feature that allows you to do certain operations on a whole bunch of files at the same time?

Perhaps if it is as easy as simply removing certain sys-ex codes, and changing a particular PC#/32/00 code to a different one, maybe a script could be written to do the whole lot in one go?

GNMidi is one of the best for doing this.

The system exclusive file is a common file..(transpose), that the BK fails to recognize properly and for some reason effects the drums (piano tone).