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Tagged As: Roland Jv 1010

Question:
I just got a Roland JV-1010 the other day. It's got great sounds, but I'm having trouble having it function in my MIDI setup. I basically want to create a performance, that's pretty much default; I pretty much want the JV-1010's front panel to be untouched; all changes are done through MIDI. I only plan to use the JV-1010 with my sequencer (Cakewalk) and change patches on the sequencer and have them play back the way I intended. I also have various other MIDI devices which use up channel 8, 9, 10, 11, 14 and 15. So I used the SoundDiver JV-XP program and saved a Performance which supposedly disabled these channels, so the other devices can play rather than the JV's channels. I also set my Performance up so that channel 1 would retain its original patch effects while the other channels remain dry. But after I recorded a test sequence on Cakewalk, my patches quickly changed back to their default settings (i.e. The performance Part 1 was saved as 64 Note Piano, then I changed it and recorded it as Psycho Rhodes and upon playback it reverted to 64th Note Piano. I thought resetting the JV would help, but all of a sudden the Rhodes track now has a lot of distortion! What's going on? Are the Roland JV instruments made to retain program changes during sequences, or does one always have to create a custom performance if they want certain patches during a multitimbral setup? My Alesis QS-6 does it the way I want it, so did my Roland U-220, so why can't the JV-1010? Also, I'm sorry but SoundDiver is one of the least user-friendly patch editors in the world. I guess that's consistent with the Emagic tradition

Answer:
You may have a perfomance channel selected. Check this out in your manual, I believe there is one channel you can dedicate to recieve the PG change for the JV 's performancs. If this is the same as a pgchange comming from your sequencer then you will be haning difficulties. Look into it! Also I rather like the SoundDiver editor but you spoke as if you knew of something better? Please advise. I really wish I could do some randomizing convolution of various patch data!