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You need to find a guru for that specific Ensoniq keyboard or at least search online to see if there isn't a downloadable owner's manual for it.

I suspect that there is an setting internal to the Ensoniq that must be found and set to the right setting.

It is a very old keyboard as MIDI goes, may not be GM compat, which can be worked around in BIAB with reassigning of instruments. If it is playing the BIAB instruments and sounds like what they are labled in BIAB, then that is not a problem.

Look for settings such as, "MIDI Echo" or "Local On/Off" in the Ensoniq, experiment with them and BIAB one at a time.

And welcome to the fun!

--Mac


Mac,

Thanks for the reply.

I have the manual (quite thick!) and I am studying the midi specific portions. The manual states that the ZR-76 is GM compatible, in fact it has a rather lengthy discussion about what that means, maps of voices etc. It discusses responding to 16 active midi channels, responding to a single midi channel (poly mode) called the "base midi channel", and that when a track is set to MIDI-OUT that track will not respond to midi data.

This kinda sorta indicates that I could set a track to be MIDI-OUT and another track to be the "base midi channel" (poly mode).

Do you know whether BIAB can receive the keyboard on one channel and send on another? If so where would I look to set that up?

BTW, I was on the USS Kennedy out of Norfolk back in 75-78. I haven't been back to the area since then though.

Last edited by jwc; 04/20/09 07:48 AM.
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