Rikki, you are absolutely correct. If you load all the instruments up front in the style then the time required to change instruments is not an issue. You could probably load up all your acoustic instruments into memory as another alternative. Finally you could install a flash hard drive and have instant access to the instruments....I think. The only thing is whether the flash hard drive uses USB, FireWire or something like that. If it does it may still not be instant access. I haven't spend any time on this as yet. I am still trying to resolve the drum problem....especially as it relates to using the appropriate drum instruments within each kit. In addition, I note that OMB responds differently to these separate instruments as compared to Live - Styler. It could be that OMB is transmitting kick and snare drums at a lower velocity.

Now just in case you may think the old man has fallen asleep at the switch, it turns out there are a number of styles which have drums located on channel 2,8, 9 & 10. I was wondering whether I was losing my mind....the drums in my favorite styles sounded so anemic. The outcome could well be that I may have to go back to combining all the drum tracks to channel 10 utilizing StyleMaker and Sonar. This way I can see immediately which tracks contain drums plus I can adjust the velocity levels for each track to accommodate the differences between my Soundfont wavetable and Bandstand. I am not certain you can do this in OMB, i.e., combine Channels 8 & 9 into 10 plus adjust the velocity levels.

Rikki if you have the answer I would be eternally grateful given I may not have enough time here on earth to make use of all of this stuff!!!


[This message has been edited by Frank L. Rosenthal (edited 12-03-2005).]