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I created manually a Patchmap for Steinbergs Hypersonic 2 Softsynth which includes all my desired patches on higher banks. Using the dialog "choose patches from higher banks" in MIDI Menu I can select all those patches.

I would like to make a DEFAULT ADVANCED PATCHMAP including CC an CC32 to get acces to those Hammer sounds. In the Windows version there seems to be an option to create advanced patchmaps. I couldn't find this in the MAC version.

I would like to have a in depth instruction about "patch name familys" and handling sysex files. The current implemantation semms to use the GM patchnames as familynames....

How to set this up????


################# snip ################
;Hypersonic 2
;Format: <Programchange>.<Bank MSB CC> == 32.<Bank LSB CC32> == <Banknumber>
;all Values are zerobased

[GM Standard Sounds]
ZEROBASED
0.32.78=GrandPno
1.32.78=BritePno
2.32.78=E.Grand
3.32.78=HnkyTonk
4.32.78=E.Piano1
5.32.78=E.Piano2
6.32.78=Harpsi.
7.32.78=Clavi.
8.32.78=Celesta
9.32.78=Glocken
10.32.78=MusicBox
o
o
[007 Acoustic Pianos]
ZEROBASED
0.32.7=Natural Grand Piano
1.32.7=Bright Grand Piano
2.32.7=Soft Grand Piano
3.32.7=Hard Grand Piano
4.32.7=Concert Hall Grand Piano
5.32.7=Atmos Piano
6.32.7=Mono Grand Piano
7.32.7=Simple Grand
8.32.7=Ol Upright Piano
9.32.7=Honky Tonk Piano
10.32.7=Phaser Piano
11.32.7=Electric Grand Piano
12.32.7=Soft Electric Grand
13.32.7=Electric Grand Atmos
14.32.7=Crushed Piano
15.32.7=Hi Piano Resonance
28.32.7=LA Piano Soft
29.32.7=LA Piano Hard
30.32.7=Grand Piano + Soft EP
31.32.7=California Grand
32.32.7=Piano + Strings
33.32.7=Heaven Piano
34.32.7=Steel Hammer Piano
35.32.7=Piano + Marimba
36.32.7=House Piano
37.32.7=Piano + Steel Drums
38.32.7=Hi Harm Piano
39.32.7=El Grand + El Piano
o
o
################# snap ################

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Hi,

It sounds like you want to automatically map a patch on the GM bank, to a different patch on a higher bank, without selecting the patch manually? There isn't a way to do this within BB itself, but there could be a third party MIDI utility you could use to accomplish it. I'm not sure if MidiPipe will do it, perhaps someone else knows...?


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I think I fixed this Issue, but I'm still stucking with the autoload features of the MAC version. In the previous WIN versions I could select to autoload the latest Song. Now I end up in an empty song after starting biab. I would load my Hypersonic2.pat file as default as well. I'm confused....

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It should remember which patch map you are using between sessions - I'm not sure why that wouldn't be the case. In other words when you open the 'Patches on Higher Banks' dialog, your patch map should already be selected.

A quick way to open the last song is to press Shift+F3 (favorite songs dialog) and then <enter> (since the previous song will already be selected).


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