Anybody having any luck installing the "instrument definitions", .ins files, into the Bandlab Cakewalk. I went thru the process and they show up with all the connections, but when I browse the patches, it just shows GM instruments.
Instrument definitions are a powerful feature that make it easier for you to find the banks, patches, and controllers of your MIDI instruments. An instrument definition is a file that contains the names of the banks, patches, note names, bank select method, and controllers of an instrument. Instrument definitions for many popular MIDI instruments are included with Cakewalk software. If an instrument definition is not available for your instrument, and you are familiar with MIDI and how it works, you can import or create your own instrument definition.Most MIDI instruments available today are General MIDI (GM) compatible, which means that they come with the standard set of sounds or patches defined by the GM standard. Your Cakewalk software initially assumes that your MIDI instruments are GM compatible. The names of patches and controllers that you initially see displayed throughout your Cakewalk software are drawn from the GM specification.At the same time, many MIDI instruments provide additional sounds and controllers beyond those required by the GM standard. In addition, some older MIDI instruments are not GM compatible. If you are using one of these instruments, you can use instrument definitions to make sure that the names of banks, patches, and controllers that you see in your Cakewalk software are the same ones you see on the display screens of your MIDI keyboards and modules.
Cakewalk Sonar Instrument Definitions
If you cannot locate the appropriate Instrument Definitions for your hardware, try contacting your hardware manufacturer to see if they have them available. Some manufacturer's have utilities that will generate the file for you.One example of this is Roland Backstage, which has a script that builds instrument definitions for various Roland devices. You will need to create an account at to be able to access this. Afterwards, you can access the script builder at _script_builder/index.php
If you find we don't currently offer the definition for your MIDI device and you cannot locate it online, you may want to create the definition yourself. These instructions will direct you in that task. SONAR lets you create and edit instrument definitions. To create an instrument definition, you must answer these types of questions:
The instrument definitions organize all names (patches, notes, controllers, RPNs, and NRPNs) into lists. You may be able to define a new instrument using existing name lists. For example, two models of synthesizers made by a particular manufacturer may have identical patch name lists but use different NRPNs. In this case, you can use the same patch name lists for both instruments, but you would need to use a different NRPN list (or perhaps create a new NRPN list) for the second synth.If you want your changes to be remembered the next time you run SONAR, make sure the Save Changes For Next Session option in the Assign Instruments dialog box is checked before clicking OK. Otherwise, to make only temporary changes, be sure to remove the check from that option.To create a new instrument
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Hi,there are good news to all waiting for this feature.Since version 5.2, there is the new feature sound variations with key switches. With those it is easy to create patchname-scripts like in Cubase oder instrument-definitions in Sonar. And it gets better. Lukas Ruschitzka who has direct contact to presonus created "Studio One Toolbox", a new homepage with the possibility to convert "Cubase - Patchname-Scripts" and "Sonar-Instrument Definitions" into the file-format for keyswitches - just by dragging it into the field on the homepage.
Cakewalk Instrument Definitions (CW Ins-Files) Here are Cakewalk instrument definitions for some Yamaha keyboards to be used with the sequencers Cakewalk/Sonar and the MIDI file utility PSRUTI. The files are free to use and distribute. Files are available for YAMAHA PSR-8000, PSR-9000, Tyros, Tyros2, Tyros3, Tyros4, Tyros5, PSR-3000, PRS-S700/900, PSR-710/910, PSR-K1.
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