Mac,

Well, I have managed to do something. Unfortunately I don't know what. First of all the keywords you mentioned are not to be found in the manual AFAICT.

The Ensoniq has a 16 track recorder. The book talks about setting up the channels of the recorder as midi outs so... I chose track 16 and started fiddling.

The book discusses

Xmit Bank:prg
16 001 001

16 is the recorder channel. Bank - no clue. Prg - no clue.

I went to the back of the book and found a discussion of prg, basically a bunch of instruments. I basically set Xmit to 16, bnk and prg to 001 and

Now... I can somehow (not sure of the precise sequence) get the keys to play through the "thru" voice in BIAB (not sure of terminology here) and I can in fact select instruments etc. BIAB causes the keyboard to play the instrument selected in the Thru voice back in BIAB. But getting set up to play is just a "try things" experience back in biab. If I hit GM and then Play, the rhythm machine in the keyboard starts playing, nothing else. I have to turn that off. Then start the song. The song plays and I can hear the keyboard now but nothing in the BIAB keyboard. Then I play around some more and suddenly... I am getting control just as I envision I should, via the Thru voice. Select an instrument good. Select a volume - good. Etc.

But what is doing what is totally inexplicable. No clear "click this then this" kind of path.

I guess this is the real cost of buying an old unsupported keyboard. While I have a manual it talks in terms I don't understand, and I have no background to assist me in interpreting the manual.

Oh well, back to "try this n that".

jwcolby
Ensoniq ZR-76 keyboard, m-Audio Minisport 2x2 Anniversary Edition
AMD x2-3800, 2gb RAM
XP SP3, BIAB 2008