While waiting for my friend to help me with the casing of my MBSID, I’d like to know how to upload the preset patches.
So far I have managed to start the JSynthLib program, and my configuration should be ok (???). Synth list shows generic device (put it to channel 5) and MBSID (channel 1).
I open the library, and I can go to the Bank Screen with all the patch names showing. But, when I send the bank to my MBSID, the lcd just goes through the patch numbers 1 to 128 but the patches remain empty.
When in the Bank Screen, the play command gives me a bleep from the SID, but always with the default sound, even if I have asked the program to send a different patch to the MBSID.
Maybe I’m missing something here, I’m pretty confused by this. The bankstick should be ok, I get a rising sound on startup and I remember the machine doing a formatting sequence to the bankstick when I first started it up.
More info: When the program sends patches, the MS-DOS window shows patch numbers etc. Some of the patches it says are Midibox SID, some Generic. Is there a problem with my JSynthLib config?
I have two banksticks wired (I should have room for 2 x 128 sound patches), how do I change between them? Could this be the problem (uploads going to the wrong bank, maybe)?
Twin-X, do you have 2 banksticks, too? I’m really wondering how to change banks and if I’m kind of in the wrong bank when the patches are in the other… Confusing…
My soundcard is SB Audigy Platinum, I use the MIDI ports (MIDI Port II) on the connections panel on front of my computer. All other uploads have had no problems.
Ok, I FINALLY managed to upload the preset patches!
Here’s how I did it:
Since JSynthLib doesn’t work on my system, I only used it to manually extract each patch of the bank into a sysex file. Then I used Serge’s SysExBox to manually upload each path into the MBSID.
So, 76 times extract, 76 times upload. Took an hour and a half but couldn’t do it any other way…
And it’s nice to know, that my MBSID succesfully uses at least one bankstick. ;D
you should be able to use jSynthLib, open up the example presets, the display should then show the presets as a single entry for synth MIDIBOX SID, type Bank, double clicking on this or right click->send , this then sends the presets to your stick, and yes you will see activity in the dos window you used to launch jSynthLib