Hi,

I have a purchased MIDI sequence that we had used before. Brass Section on Track 1 assigned to Channel 1. The "volume" level was 120. Driving a Ketron SD4 sound module. Other instruments on other tracks and channels.

This had worked fine for several months then all of a sudden the Brass Section appeared to have gone away. Closer examination by muting the other instrument tracks showed that the volume level was very low for the Brass Section. BUT the volume control and Event view still showed the original setting of 120.

Note that prior to starting to track down the cause of the problem NO EDITS to the file had been done.

Exited Real Tracks and tried starting again. Even over power cycles of the computer (and Ketron SM) the problem remained.

Tried increasing to 127 in the event view, no significant change to sound level. Tried applying a 200% velocity increase via edit menu, no significant change to sound level.

All other tracks/instruments worked fine, full volume.

I went back to the original .mid file from the downloaded zip received at time of purchase. Same problem in there so again no chance of any accidental edits to the file introducing the problem.

Just for grins I changed the channel on Track 1 from 1 to 6 (since 6 was unused in this sequence). Instantly the volume level of the Brass Section was restored.

Has anyone seen this before? Any suggestions on how to track down what might have happened with channel 1 that could cause the volume level of the associated instrument to be very low? Note: I tried changing the Brass Section to Piano, and the Piano sound level was also very low when using channel 1.

I have other MIDI sequences that use Channel 1 and I have not seen this problem with those sequences.

We have a older recording from the sequence where we were having the problem that has the Brass Section at normal volume, so it is not just a case of "mis-remembering" the sound level

Is there a setting option somewhere in RealBand that would impact volume level on an individual channel that would "stick" over system restarts?

Thanks,
Burt