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Great job Mac!

Now, I have a couple of questions, since I have also thought about getting the SD2 in place of using the Cakewalk TTS-1.

First, is there an editor that I can use to program the SD2 to give me the higher quality upper bank sounds using normal GM patch change commands? In other words, I would like to have the SD2 automatically switch to the higher bank sounds when it gets a PC command from BIAB?



If you use the Patch Map (on the pgmusic support page or the ketron support pages) for the SD-2, then BiaB (or PT/RB) itself becomes the program that easily allows for Upper Bank Selection of instruments, grouped by the instrument type or as the long list. For example, you can look at all the available Electric Pianos in one place, then audition them, then select, all from right inside the programs.

In BiaB you also have the option of assigning your own custom "Combos" to the Combo Trackname on the LH side. Here you can build various combos that you might wish to use over and over again and then only click one place to get them for another songfile.

No need for third party software or digging into the bowels of a hardware synth's commands to do this task.

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Is it possible to use the Akai EWI USB with the SD2 direct? or do I need a computer to use it?

Thanks again Mac,
Ed



Should be possible, although I don't own an EWI. But the SD-2 has MIDI input jack on it and I use it all the time live with my MIDI keyboards. SD-2 Upper Banks are listed in the manual for the SD-2, there are really only a few changes you need to know how to send, for example, all Upper Bank commands are changed by simply changing one parameter -- The MSB (Most Significant Bit) -- from zero, which is the GM bank, to 1, 2 or 10.

There are also ways listed in the manual to send Patch and Bank changes as CC controllers, I've never used those as I have never needed to do so, preferring one of the above methods, the SD-2 is also fully SYSEX responsive, too.


HTH,


--Mac

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