Members RockPianoman Posted August 13, 2014 Members Share Posted August 13, 2014 I have the Roland A-37....it will select all the sounds in a synth and you select the banks on the synth itself....turn off bank select in the synth or it will always jump to the General MIDI bank.....the Roland A-30 and A-33 only select 32 sounds in each bank.... When I use my A-37 with my Motif rack, I set a patch to have the right amount of reverb and chorus and I make sure the pitch bend lever is turned on too and then you store that patch to all 128 patch select locations .....then you program the 128 patches to be able to select patches 1 - 128......naturally you can make 128 patches that can be anything but it is much more useful selecting 1 - 128 in any synth....before doing this, all patches in the Motif rack were drowning in reverb when it would select them and now they are perfect..... This chart shows how to select patches 1 - 128 on a Roland A-37 since you use buttons 1 - 8 to select them in banks A and B..... https://www.dropbox.com/s/2z22kds3ji...%20Numbers.rtf Patches I would select in my Roland synths were unchanged when selecting them both before and after doing that with the reverb and chorus settings..... Selecting patches in a Korg synth is the same but you subtract 1 in your head to get the right number as Korgs have patches 0 - 127 instead of 1 - 128 in each bank..... I think the A-37 would be miles easier to select sounds with if it just had a 10 key like on a computer keyboard and you could just type in the 2 or 3 digit number for the sound you wanted.....the chart I made at the link above would be very hard to memorize so you could actually remember good enough to select your patches (it would be a drag to always call up the wrong patches)....you almost need a copy of the chart by your keyboard (I have one on the wall by my keyboard)..... What would be easiest would be to have 4 group buttons (1-32, 33-64, 65-96, 97-128) and 32 voice select buttons to select sounds.....this would cover all 128 patches in a bank and you would just select the synth banks from the synth itself..... If they had 8 group buttons (1-16, 17-32, 33-48, 49-64, 65-80, 81-96, 97-112, 113-128) and 16 voice select buttons you could still select all 128 patches in a bank in the synth but have fewer buttons (the other way would have a total of 36 buttons and this way would only have 24)...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Etienne Rambert Posted August 15, 2014 Members Share Posted August 15, 2014 That chart is really useful RockPianoman. I wish I had my M-Audio Axiom 61 and Korg M3m or Roland Sonic Cell like that. As it is - I'm changing patches manually - when I need to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RockPianoman Posted August 15, 2014 Author Members Share Posted August 15, 2014 Thank you....I put it on the wall by my A-37 and it makes it easier..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Bonehill70 Posted March 14, 2015 Members Share Posted March 14, 2015 Hi RockPianoman - I'm tearing my hair out with my A-37 & slave synths - have set midi ch9 on the A-37 to control a Triton which is also set to ch9, but no sound from or midi signal into the Triton - I have reset the Triton bank from GM2 to Korg, so the GM sounds should be ignored but still nothing - same problem with my Kurzweil K2500r - and with a Wavestation or Alesis Ion that have no GM in the first place how can they be set to work from the A-37? Obviously the thing must work somehow but what am I missing??? Thanks.... Andrew B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Dendy Jarrett Posted January 12, 2017 Members Share Posted January 12, 2017 The original drop box link for this has expired. I reached out to the OP and he provided the info - see below: Roland A-37 A11= 1 A12= 2 A13= 3 A14= 4 A15= 5 A16= 6 A17= 7 A18= 8 A21= 9 A22= 10 A23= 11 A24= 12 A25= 13 A26= 14 A27= 15 A28= 16 A31= 17 A32= 18 A33= 19 A34= 20 A35= 21 A36= 22 A37= 23 A38= 24 A41= 25 A42= 26 A43= 27 A44= 28 A45= 29 A46= 30 A47= 31 A48= 32 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RockPianoman Posted January 29, 2017 Author Members Share Posted January 29, 2017 These are all of them....no links this timeas they just go bad (in a very short time).I attached 2 Word documents that are formatted perfectly for printing (one is regular, and one is for controlling Korgs). A11 = 1A12 = 2A13 = 3A14 = 4A15 = 5A16 = 6A17 = 7A18 = 8 A21 = 9A22 = 10A23 = 11A24 = 12A25 = 13A26 = 14A27 = 15A28 = 16 A31 = 17A32 = 18A33 = 19A34 = 20A35 = 21A36 = 22A37 = 23A38 = 24 A41 = 25A42 = 26A43 = 27A44 = 28A45 = 29A46 = 30A47 = 31A48 = 32 A51 = 33A52 = 34A53 = 35A54 = 36A55 = 37A56 = 38A57 = 39A58 = 40 A61 = 41A62 = 42A63 = 43A64 = 44A65 = 45A66 = 46A67 = 47A68 = 48 A71 = 49A72 = 50A73 = 51A74 = 52A75 = 53A76 = 54A77 = 55A78 = 56 A81 = 57A82 = 58A83 = 59A84 = 60A85 = 61A86 = 62A87 = 63A88 = 64 B11 = 65B12 = 66B13 = 67B14 = 68B15 = 69B16 = 70B17 = 71B18 = 72 B21 = 73B22 = 74B23 = 75B24 = 76B25 = 77B26 = 78B27 = 79B28 = 80 B31 = 81B32 = 82B33 = 83B34 = 84B35 = 85B36 = 86B37 = 87B38 = 88 B41 = 89B42 = 90B43 = 91B44 = 92B45 = 93B46 = 94B47 = 95B48 = 96 B51 = 97B52 = 98B53 = 99B54 = 100B55 = 101B56 = 102B57 = 103B58 = 104 B61 = 105B62 = 106B63 = 107B64 = 108B65 = 109B66 = 110B67 = 111B68 = 112 B71 = 113B72 = 114B73 = 115B74 = 116B75 = 117B76 = 118B77 = 119B78 = 120 B81 = 121B82 = 122B83 = 123B84 = 124B85 = 125B86 = 126B87 = 127B88 = 128 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RockPianoman Posted January 29, 2017 Author Members Share Posted January 29, 2017 I'm not sure if it might be an obscure MIDI message causing the trouble....I'd call Roland....they should be able to figure it out. If you need operational assistance, you can contact Roland's Product Support department at (323) 890-3740. Product Support is open Monday through Friday, 8:30am to 5 pm Pacific Time. Phone support is provided for select Roland and BOSS products purchased in the U.S. only. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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