Helios.G

Or copy control D until you have as many as you need.

Can you edit the categories in the text file too?

So I figured out what's happening, I just don't know what to do about it yet. I made another ins file with the john melas software, and clicked it open with a text editor, everything was there, but what I realized is that a ton of mx patches where sent to the GM section. That's why some things seem to be missing, and some categories look off, lots of patches are stuffed there for some reason. Problem is, I don't know how to relocate them in the melas software. If I knew how to do that, I could do it and share the new ins file for anyone facing the same issue here.

Hey Greg, by any chance did you use the demo version of the John Melas software? I read in some motif forum that if you don't buy the full version of the whole bundle, it has restrictions in place. That might be what we're seeing here. If true, that sucks, cause I'm not paying 95 for these tools.

I don't know, it's driving me nuts. My main issue is that because of these random differences, picking a sound sometimes reverts randomly. When I check the ins, it's always around those sounds that don't line up with the original data list. check for yourself, here's the Yamaha data list for the mx series. https://usa.yamaha.com/files/download/other_assets/0/892970/mx49mx61mx88_en_dl_c0.pdfc

Hey 57Gregy, long time I haven't bothered you on this, so I hope you don't mind. I'm working on a project and was using my mx yesterday, when I noticed that the ins file doesn't have everything listed in correct order. I thought I'd take things into my own hands, and downloaded the john melas software, and ran that, but the same thing kept happening. My issue is, when you download the data list directly from yamaha, and compare it to the keyboards menu, they line up exactly, but when you compare it to the ins file, there are things that don't line up. Is there something I'm doing wrong? I just want the basic voicings in the order and categories they appear on the keyboard on the ins file. Am I missing something? Thanks man

it's not free, but start here, and you'll learn everything you need to know, good luck... https://www.groove3.com/products/SONAR-Explained

You've gotten a lot of great advice here already, but I'd like to add this one thing. Many novice producers/artists/musicians don't actually know what a good mix sounds like. Most people are accustomed to what the final product of a major label release sounds like, and they compare their mixes to that. Don't do that. Beyond the fact that you're comparing a finalized project to your still unfinished one, there are usually tons of people who work on these songs, with lots of knowledge on arranging, sound choice, recording in optimal conditions, probably with top notch gear and more importantly with years of know how in implementing all of these advantages. Your first/early projects will sound bad, that is part of this process. You're going to go through some growing pains, but if you do lots of songs, and stick to it, eventually, you'll start getting better, and hearing things you didn't before. Before you know it, you'll start to understand what people mean by the gear doesn't matter, only your ears do, cause fundamentally it's true. Once you get your ears to a level of proficiency where you can hear what a song needs and what may be extra fluff that it doesn't, you'll be golden. Then you'll start to make production, mixing, heck even gear acquisition decisions, based on what is actually important and not what you think makes you sound "professional". Good luck man.

Or just have it's way of working built in, I'd love that. But I'm not complaining too much, at least it exists 😂

I know this comment is old, but just wanted to thank you for sharing this plug here. One of my biggest bugaboos with cakewalk has always been getting a mix to have space and width and translating both in cans and on monitors/speakers. This plugin is amazing, I honestly can't go back to the way I used to mix. Thanks again!

Why don't you just delete the offending sections and fill it in with copy paste from a section without the problem?

How old is your ssd/hdd? Could be that, but would need more info.

I thought you said in that other thread that you were going to let this go? ?

Same ?

Thanks for the reply Jonathan, I was holding up updating my main rig till I understood it, appreciate it.