I bought a new Forte DXi 1.6 synth for my new 64-bit vista OS based on PG recommendations. I love the sound, but I have discovered it does not recognize some, maybe many bank changes. For me it started with the thunder effect and then the castinet bank change, which is in many of my 500 midi files.

I sent two e-mails today to Coyotes and got responses. Norm Campbell wrote this evening, 22 Dec 09:
"OK, I see now that those two (as well as several other sound-effect-ish
sounds) are missing from the set of sample files shipped with ForteDXi.
If I can find a public-domain sample for each I will add them to the
next version of ForteDXi.
"However, as I said, you should be able to add sample files yourself,
too. The documentation is installed when you install ForteDXi. To get to
it, right-click on the ForteDXi window (in BIAB, for example) and select
Help Index. Or just double-click on the file ForteDXi.chm which should
be in C:\Program files\Coyote\ForteDXi (or wherever you installed ForteDXi)."

I know many people bought the new Forte DXi 1.6 version recently from PG Music and may be beginning to encounter this bank change recognition problem. I have reported it to the PG Music tech staff and this post it to give other buyers some warning of the issue.

Norm told me how to get to the documentation he references above in another e-mail:
"(by the way it is always possible for you to add your own custom sounds
and assign them to any bank and PC - see the documentation under
"Advanced Topics" - "Using Other Sample Files")."

I hope this will help some of you. Regards, Scott




Thanks
Norm