Check this Sound on Sound article about the good old (90s?) MS40:

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/1995_articles/may95/soltonms40.html

The synth has a GM bank, recommend using that with BB at first. Then the dropdown instrument patch selector will be the same as any other GM synth you are used to using, but with likely better sounds.

I think the GM bank is accessed via a separate dedicated GM Input receptacle. So you could have your accordian, say, plugged into the Solo input and your computer and bb into the GM input. neat.

To access the higher banks, then you will need to have the documentation for the synth that shows the Patches delineated by Bank and Patch number and generate a Patch Map for your synth. Then, once that text file is placed in the bb folder and selected as your Patch map, you can use that to select the Patches for your songs rather than the bb standard GM dropdown slots. (The + to the right of the GM dropdown).

The MANUAL for that particular Ketron is needed.

If you don't have one, check out the Ketron US or Ketron Italy sites to see if they have published a .pdf manual for it, or contact Ketron via email and ask if they can provide.

Don't overlook the bb Patch Map Wizard that allows us to locate a Cakewalk/Sonar Patchmap for a particular synth out there on the web, download it and convert it to work with bb in one mouseclick!


--Mac

Last edited by Mac; 08/30/12 01:38 PM.
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