Sending a bank switch command followed by a program change to a synth

Question

I'm hoping to build a button group of 16 that map to my favorite synth patches. The Yamaha VL I have has 4 banks (2 with 128 patches,1 with 64, and 1 with 6). My favorite patches will not be in the same bank on the Yamaha VL. I've successfully built buttons to select banks and buttons to switch programs. But that's a two step process. I'd like to press a single button and have the bank select command sent followed by the program change.

What's the best way to implement this?

Thanks from a newbie,

Jason

Comments

Please try googling for "bank change program change midi designer" (no quotes) and you can also try to throw the word "manual" in there. Short answers: 1) there is now a bank-prog change message, but if you want to share one bank change button 2) use a super and two subs. Anyway, Google will take you to more comprehensive answers and all topics.

Thanks!

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Thanks - I didn't see the bank-program change message. I built a button selector group that performs the function I need.

I'd also like to "echo" the bank and program set by the button to a dial and slider control, respectively. When make the buttons supercontrollers of the dial and slider, the midi to the synth seems to not send the bank data... Any pointers to app notes or videos would be helpful to me.

Thanks again,

Jason

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Hi Jason, glad you got sorted with bank-prog change. Regarding the echo question, please ask another question in the Advanced category so other people can find it and possibly answer you [though echo might be outside MD's scope].

Thanks!