Oh no, Genesys has got RAM. I was trying to find the actual spec but couldn't...Maybe one of the other guys knows.

Now I don't know for sure so you'll have to take this with a grain of salt. There's a difference between loading a song then playing it and playing it directly off of disk. When you play a midi directly off of disk, you don't get a chance to change (and make stick) any of the midi events before the song starts. The events I'm talking about would be which instrument to use on which track.

But when you load the song into RAM, then make a register change, then do a 'Store Procedure' (or save), that change superceeds any initial "Patch Change" midi event and doesn't change it unless it receives another Patch Change event somewhere during the course of playing the song. Doesn't change the actual file, just makes the changes in RAM. What I'm not sure of is whether the original instrument choice is found in the sysex file or is it in a header in the midi file or what.(?)

So what I was hoping for was the ability to let my instrument changes superceed any midi event changes before the song starts regardless of whether it was coming from RAM or directly off a disk. I'm not asking it to change notes, effects, timing, lyrics, etc...Just the initial choice of instruments used.

And like I said, it's not that big of a deal. If they can't do it, then they can't do it. I'll get by.

Maybe I'm just asking for too much.

I remember somebody saying that Ketron likes to put their best sounding instruments in bank 1 and 2. Sounds like a pretty good idea to me. Of course, then you've got the ol' what's sounds good to me might not to you.

mike