Bank Select Commands; Stereo Mix Outputs - E-Mu PX-7 Owner's Manual

Bank Select
Commands
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When you press the
Audition button, the Bank Select
MSB and LSB are displayed on
the top line of the display.
Stereo Mix
Outputs
196 E-MU Systems
When the original MIDI specification was developed, no synthesizer had
more than 40 preset locations. At that time being able to select up to 128
presets didn't seem like much of a limitation. So it was that the original
MIDI specification provided for the selection of up to 128 presets.
Musicians wanted MORE presets and so the MIDI specification was later
amended to include Bank Select Commands. It was decided that Bank
Select Commands would use Continuous Controllers 0 and 32 to allow the
selection of up to 16,384 banks of 128 presets (over two million presets).
Because Bank Selects are implemented using Continuous Controllers, the
Bank Selections can be made per channel. (This is getting better and better.)
For each MIDI channel, you can select any of 16,384 banks and then one of
the 128 presets in the bank. Of course no synthesizer has 16,384 banks
(yet), but hey, it's nice to know it's possible (for that really BIG project).
Continuous Controller (CC) 0 is the MSB (most significant byte) and CC 32
is the LSB (least significant byte). Normally you send both the MSB and LSB
controllers to implement a bank change.
PX-7 remembers the MSB and the LSB that were last sent (or last changed
from the front panel). For example, if you have already set the Bank MSB to
04, you need only send the LSB to change banks within the PX-7 sound set.
See the MIDI Bank Select chart below.
The selected bank remains selected until you change it (either via MIDI or
by changing the bank from the front panel). Standard MIDI Program
Change commands select from 128 presets within the selected bank.
This feature is useful for adding signal processing (EQ, reverb, etc.) of
individual sounds prior to final mixdown.
The routing can be performed according to MIDI channel from the Mix
Output screen in the Global menu. Simply assign each channel to the
desired output.
MIX OUTPUT
Global
channel 01: Send 2
Menu
To route a particular preset to a Send, first go to the Mix Output screen in
the Global menu and set the MIDI channel to "Preset".
Programming Basics

Stereo Mix Outputs