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It seems the problem is solved, after a long reading of the MIDI implementation document. There are some controls, which are numbered 0 and 32 respectively, 00H and 20H in hexadecimal, as is used in the MIDI implementation document for the PX-5S. It talks about something called Bank Select MSB. MSB stands for most significant bit and represents some binary number that has to do with some activity in the piano, in this case selecting a bank. The MSB for the Grand Piano Concert sound is 64. According to the MIDI document, I had to enter the LSB, least significant bit, into control 32. That one was a bit harder to find out. I set the MIDI-OX program up with the PX-5S hooked up, switched to every tone on zone 1, from 00 (the grand piano) to the troublesome GM Piano 1, which is number 17 and logged all activity. The MIDI-OX registers the MSB and LSB, which I found out to be 40 and 00 in hex for all the tones, or 64 (just as it says in the tone list of the tutorial) and 0 in decimal, respectively. To sum it up, by setting ctrl0 = 64 and ctrl32 = 0, Notation Composer stopped playing the strings on top of the piano sound. Thanks for all your help, hope this experience of mine will be of use to someone who gets in similar trouble, but I actually hope noone will. At least I learned more about MIDI!

Thank you for your help, Choppin. I tried this manual inserting of bank numbers, didn't solve my problem. It seems Composer always creates some MIDI bank. I even tried deleting that bank, and made a new one with [Ctrl0,Ctrl32] = [112,36] attempting to force NC to use the new bank. It didn't work. I can actually scroll through, or control, the voices in the PX-5S just by scrolling through the cells in the table below, you mentioned. The strange thing is, that the cells have no names or values, but they for sure represent some of the voices. I would like to be able to close the door to all outside interference with settings on my PX-5S, but it seems impossible to do that without also cutting the piano away from the outside world.

Unfortunately both programs keep messing with the piano. Synthesia has actually stopped switching to GM Piano 1, but is now layering piano and strings on stage setting 0-0. The strange thing is that zones 2-4 are shown as off and the only zone on is zone 1, with grand piano. As you know, strings are on zone 2 in setting 0-0. Composer has started switching to GM Piano 1 again, even with Bank Select method set to None. Settig High reso out to Off didn't change anything, regarding this.

Thank you, Choppin. I could set an option in the configuration window of NC so that it leaves the settings of the PX-5S alone, by setting Bank select to None. Similar thing in Synthesia, there it's called MIDI.AllowProgramChange. Unchecked that option and everything is working the way I want it. I'll try your suggestion if I have more problems regarding this.

Has anybody else experienced that? I'm using two programs, Synthesia and Notation Composer. I tried to hook up to MIDI Illustrator Maestro, it didn't happen there though. In the other two programs, the tone is always changed to GM Piano 1. Is there any way to prevent this from happening? This almost makes it impossible to hook up to the named software packages. I tried changing the Local Control when connecting the Synthesia, after consulting with the Synthesia developer on the software's webpage. It worked better but the volume was much lower that way, probably because the external software was in charge of the piano. Not sure about this though. With Notation Composer, setting Local Contral to Off didn't change a thing. The software kept switching my PX-5S to the annoying GM Piano 1.

Hello candy.chiu.ad. What you're looking for looks very much like a program called Synthesia. Synthesia, Piano for Everyone The bought version includes exactly the option of making the song progressing wait for the right note to be played. Or are you talking about programming this option yourself?

Would like to upload this list I made, of all stage settings and what is on each zone. I just list the names of the tones and if they are set to on or off, but not how each and every parameter (EQ, reverb,...etc.) is tweaked. That might be a bigger task. Uploaded as PDF, since the forums don't allow Excel files. However the document is available in Excel format on the Facebook group. Hope this helps. PX-5s stage settings organiser.pdf