The continued adventures of Yamaha PSR-220... Previously, our intrepid hero had created the program entries but not the percussion key entries or control entries... ;-)
After some study, I now have a bigger RGD file but also questions,
questions, questions.
The Yamaha manual indicates that there are two different sets of MIDI
instruments in the PSR-220: Panel and GM (General MIDI). Using a wee
Python program I wrote, I looped through program change commands and
played a note. When the keyboard is first turned on, the notes lined
up with the GM list of instruments. The percussion kit in the GM list
is on a separate bank. But, even though sending from the computer to
the keyboard uses the GM mappings, playing on the keyboard directly
uses the Panel mappings. So I suppose question 0 is "How do I make
sense of that?" But if there's no obvious answer, the more important
questions are below.
The manual offers the following system exclusive command to switch
between "Panel Voice" and "GM Voice"
0xF0 0x43 0x76 0x1B [channel] [voice] 0xF7
where `[channel]` is the MIDI channel (0 - 16 ?) and `[voice]` is `00`
for **GM Voice** and `01` for **Panel Voice**.
So Question 1: Was making two <device> entries, (id="0" /
name="...GM...": and id="1" / name="...Panel..." the right thing to
do? Like so:
<device id="0" name="... (GM Voices)" type="midi">
<bank name="GM" msb="0" lsb="0">...</bank>
<keymapping name="Percussion">...</keymapping>
<controls>...</controls>
</device>
<device id="1" name="... (Panel Voices)" type="midi">
<bank name="GM" msb="0" lsb="0">...</bank>
<keymapping name="Percussion">...</keymapping>
<controls>...</controls>
</device>
Question 2: Is there somewhere in the RGD file to put the system
exclusive message that switches between Panel and GM?
And finally, after studying the "Control" stuff, I added a control
section to both devices. But Question 3: What do "colourindex" and
"ipbposition" do and what are the range of values? I found 18 control
entries, but took the coulourindex and ipbposition values from another
,rgd file, and only have five unique colourindex values and 8
ipbposition values. (Six of the 18 controls are actually paired MSB /
LSB controls, as that's what I saw done in other .rgd files.)
(Actually, I suppose question 4 is "What's a good way to test
everything?" But I figure I'll eventually get the hang of that by
working through the Rosegarden manual / tutorials, etc.)
See attached latest and, hopefully, greatest version.
Yamaha-PSR220-PSR230.rgd
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