Paul Devlin

Thanks so much for your time and your feedback, I really appreciate it. I think you're right and that I should stick with separate tracks for different patches. All is not lost though, as even though it does seem there's an interaction issue between Analag Lab and Cakewalk, it seems I was on the right track in troubleshooting so I've still learned something! Thanks again,

Sorry yes of course. The point stands, though, that it's not recognising the bank so both examples play the same sounds, despite the bank supposed to be changing from 0 to 1

Thank you for the reply. I've tried the VST2 and it now partially works as it's now recognising the 'Patch' but not the 'Bank'. Here's my initial Event List, set to trigger the first patch in the first song, then change to the second patch in the first song: So far so good, however if I then change the 'Bank' to attempt to trigger the first patch in the 2nd song, it still triggers the 2nd patch in the first song As you mentioned, this would be ok if I had less that 127 patches in the playlist but I have 131, meaning I can't trigger the last few. For the avoidance of doubt, I can trigger the first 127 when the Bank is set to 0. I've noted the comments around sticking to having one track per patch, but I wanted to try to learn a little more of the mechanics of the patch changes via MIDI and so would like to work this out, even if I wind up never using it. Thanks again

I'm struggling to change patches with Analog Lab Pro and would appreciate any guidance on how to configure things correctly. If we take an example of a project with a Midi track and an Instrument track, with the Midi track containing the data for an ascending major scale and a descending minor scale. The midi track output is assigned to the instrument track (which is the Analog Lab Pro VST). I'd like one preset to sound when the scale is ascending and another when descending. It seems, though, that inserting a 'Bank/Patch Change' isn't actually doing anything so I must be doing something wrong, but can't figure out what. I've tried various combos of the "Bank Select Method" and ,no matter which I choose, the "Bank" is always either "---" or "0-Bank 0" and the patch numbers sometimes produce a change and sometimes don't (my troubleshooting here is inconsistent and I can't reproduce the same results on demand, which is further confusing me). I've read on the Arturia help pages that Analog Lab is supposed to be based on a "playlist/song/preset" combination with "Bank MSB" being the "playlist", "Bank LSB" being the song and Program Number being the "song". In the Cakewalk document, I read the "Bank MSB" = "Controller 0" and "Bank LSB" = "Controller 32" and so I've been playing with these and, again, they sometimes initiate changes and sometimes don't, so I'm kinda lost. Am I supposed to be able to import an .ins file into Cakewalk with the Playlist structure from Analog Lab? Am I over complicating things trying to insert 3 "Patch" events (i.e. one for Controller 0, one for Controller 32, one for Patch 100 etc)?. I'd like to keep things as simple as possible and I fear I'm going down the wrong rabbit hole here, so any pointers on how to initiate a simple patch change from Cakewalk to Analog Lab would be greatly appreciated