MIDI CC Data to select Best Pianos or any of the 400 Patches

[roberths73]

Working with the new S7000 and looking at ways to automate the patch changes.  It seems that control for the S7000 is only with the 127 GM patches.

 

I can play through the 400 pages only when I select one before sending MIDI not data over USB.

 

I tried viewing the MIDI data using the free program MIDIVIEW on Win11 and I can see the Bank / Program changes when I operate the S7000.  When I try to send these through my DAW (NI Maschine) I only get the standard 127GM.

 

Can anyone out there confirm? What might I be missing?  I'll try working on this through Ableton tomorrow.

 

Thanks in advanced to the wonderful collective knowledge base that exists on the net.

[Brad Saucier]

I don't know what you're workflow is, but a MIDI track in a DAW will record bank select and program change data; and each time you select a tone or registration, like any other Casio MIDI equipped keyboard, it should send that data.  So just hit record and select your tones or registrations.  The tones will change in the time and manner which you recorded them upon playback.   I assume that's the type of automation you're looking for.  

 

Otherwise, if you need to manually enter the data, the "built-in music data list" document for your PX-S7000 has a tone chart with all of the data listed for selecting tones.  

[roberths73]

Thanks for the reply and information Brad.  I will probably have to look at the custom settings.  I went through the recording MIDI data on Maschine (automation) and changed the bank (Piano / E Piano / Others) as well as selecting Programs.  When I played back the recording things sounded okay, but then I tested the data by changing the Bank / Program and found that the data wouldn't change the S7000 back to what was originally recorded.  Only when I re-selected the Bank / Program on the S7000 did it sound like the original MIDI recording.  This seemed odd because I assumed that Bank / Program / Patch data would have been recorded.  I am probably missing something in Maschine and I'll try Ableton a bit more this weekend.  This is why I installed MIDIVIEW to see specific information about the MIDI data received on the computer from the S7000.

 

Again thanks for your input.  It gives me hope that I am looking at things correctly.  Seems like more of a technical issue of manually editing data.  This is a bit new and I thought that any recording data would be captured by a DAW and replayed back.  I do realize that different musical instruments treat data differently and more programming might be needed.  This is where I think Ableton might be of more help.