Rikki, wow you are way ahead of me technically on all of this music software. I have made a copy of your comments which will come in handy as I slowly but surely get everything setup.

Rikki if you have the XG to GM.con files for the following drum kits I will buy you a beer if you provided me a copy of them:

Standard Kit
Jazz Kit
Brush Kit
....the rest I can do on my own later.

My email is:
flr@mts.net

Even if you may think that you are not finished converting these drum kits it will be way good enough for me to get started.

The good thing about OMB among others it finds all the channels with drums loaded and transfers them all to channel 10....I think.

In addition, to instrument loading time problem in Bandstand revolves around the fact that styles often have more than one drum kit. OMB or any other sequencer will load all of the kits including those found on empty tracks. This would cause a noticeable hesitancy while playing such styles. Similarly, when there is a different sax or trumpet required for an ending you would experience an interruption while playing such endings. This is all fixable if you load such instruments in the introductory part of the style.

I have not tried this but I suppose you could develop an empty midi/style file in OMB or other sequencer calling for all the instruments you believe you will be using during live performance and load them before your performance. This should eliminate interruptions caused during loading of the required instruments. The best thing may still be the advice provided by trident.

Rikki thanks for all your help.

Frank L. Rosenthal


[This message has been edited by Frank L. Rosenthal (edited 12-04-2005).]