I used to do this all the time. It's been a while, though my explanation is on this list somewhere. What you need: A spreadsheet that'll read the file Microsoft Notepad An instrument definition file to make sure you're getting the format right. Chances are good what they sent you will have the bank, program, and patch name, and most likely it'll be in different columns. You need to add the MIDI channel for each program, which goes first. So the order is MIDI channel, Bank, Program Number, Program name. If you're using a multi-timbral instrument that'll play on all 16 channels (with channel 10 doing drum sounds) you can use a MIDI channel of -1 for the normal programs and 10 for your drum maps. So get things set up so it matches the structure above. While you're doing this, go through the program names and look for odd characters, because some will cause the file to stop returning information when encountered. When you've got your table set up, open a notepad session and also open the definition file you've selected as an example. Press Control+End to get to the last cell in your table in the spreadsheet. Then press Control+Shift+Home to select everything. Press Control+C to copy everything in the spreadsheet. Go to Notepad, and use Control+V to paste the table in. Go to the top and highlight the first tab and the numbers surrounding it, which will probably be a 1 from the MIDI channel and a 0 from the bank. Press Control+H to open the find and replace. Control+V to paste the numbers with the tab in the middle into the find box, then delete both numbers so only a tab is in that box. Press the tab key to get to the replace box and type a comma. Tab down to Replace all and hit the spacebar. It may take a moment to get through everything. Give it a bit of time then press Cancel and you should find everything separated by commas instead of tabs. Go back to the top and copy the format header and instrument name line from the other definition file, changing any instrument references to the synth you're referencing in the new file. Save it, using the QWS instrument definition list naming protocol. Open QWS, load it, and check that it works. If you get an error you've stumbled somewhere or one of those illegal characters snuck past you and you'll have to find it. Hope this helps. Sent from my HAL 9000 in transit to Jupiter
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Joe Giovanelli Sent: Friday, May 14, 2021 12:32 PM To: QWS list <[email protected]> Subject: QWS List program and bank assignments and spread sheet Good Afternoon, I recently purchased a Medeli SP-4200 keyboard. The piano nand other sounds are quite ngood. The manual did not have the program and bank assignments so I emailed Medeli and nI immediately received nthe informationn but it was on a spread sheet. I was able to read a bit of the data but how can this be used to make an instrument list? I asked them for a different file format but all they did was resend the same file. I have to think they do not speak good English. This is very disconcerting as you can imagine. I hope someone has a thought as to what I can do. Thank you for reading this. Joe Giovanelli, W2PVY To unsubscribe or change list options, see http://lists.andrelouis.com for archived list posts, see http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
