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ADDENDUM (just a historical footnote, which I suspect you might already know) Thanks for confirming that you already knew (as I suspected). To be honest, at first I wasn't going to try to help because I had no idea what a TR8S was, but decided to look it up because I knew the 41 [manufacturer's ID] looked very familiar. So, I decided to look for the MIDI documentation. I had no idea Roland no longer made the details of their MIDI commands available. Hexadecimal can be quite scary. And playing around with it too much can make someone go blind. 🤪

They ARE Sysex commands. If the OP got them from mining the hardware along with some software tools (eg MIDI-OX), that's one thing. But if they are just copy and pasted from a list of sysex from unrelated gear, that's totally different. ADDENDUM (just a historical footnote, which I suspect you might already know): In older gear when Roland documented the sysex accessible addresses, it was indeed very possible to put multiple addresses and values to go into those addresses in a single command [F0 . . . F7]. Of course, for each command, you had to calculate the 7-bit checksum for the last value before the End of Transmission marker. So, for that reason many times it was less painful to have a whole bunch of individual sysex commands rather than cut and paste sysex strings [address, value] into a single command. My most recent Roland gear is from the last century, so I have no idea what if any sysex accessibility that had starting in the 21st century.

I have experience using sysex commands (even mining for undocumented commands for some of my gear), but I have no idea what a TR8S is. If someone else here does (and maybe even has experience with it with sysex commands), great! If not and if you post a link to the manual (whichever one has the full MIDI implementation full manual, separate MIDI manual, etc.). I'd be happy to take a look. All I know is the the manufacturer's ID is within this range: 40H to 5FH[Assigned by AMEI for Japanese Manufacturers] OK. So I looked up and found the "Reference Guide" and the MIDI Implementation Guide. Neither of those spell out the details for the TR8S's system exclusive command implementation. Older Roland manuals used to have that. In fact I used to do all sorts of stuff with my CA-30 and RA-30 Intelligent Arrangers in addition to other Roland sound modules (starting with the MT-32). Where did you get the sysex? From 2018, I found some posts:

Thanks for the clarification. Because I use the Audio FX button on the Browser itself, I'll have to defer to others that have the Audio FX button somewhere else. I did check a few places (such as Track Options, the Custom Control Bar Module), but couldn't find a way to get a different Audio FX button to show up.

Did you intentionally or accidentally switch to a different workspace or screenset? Also, if by "Missing Audio FX" you mean that you don't see the Browser, you can use the Menu Bar or a keyboard shortcut to get it back. But, if you see the Browser but you don't have the correct tab selected, select the correct tab. And if you don't mean any of these things, please clarify what you are missing.

I gave up trying to understand all this kind of stuff. But what I have seen myself is that T-Racks 5 FX show up in the Browser with TR5 as part of the name, but my T-Racks 6 MAX FX just have the name of the effect, such as seen here: As to whether or not the plug-ins themselves changed from the TS MAX 2 version, I defer to others. But so far as I can see (at least on my PC), the new ones did not remove the ability to select and use the TR5 versions. I think that's what you are asking about, but I defer to others who probably use them more than I do. Hope this helps.

They might be having an overload. I updated all last week using ASC and today I have 37 to update. Thanks for mentioning this! The updates/upgrades are free (like Pigments), So I have been giving the new versions a try myself.

When the X upgrade came along, I had V Collection 9. Not sure if I had all 6 Augmented Instruments by then, but X didn't add all that much for what they were asking. IIRC I might have already filled in my missing Augments with the $99 upgrade offer for that set and $199 on top of that was out of my reach. So now, like many of you, the upgrade for $299 is not all that attractive. It will add Mallets Full and maybe 2 or 3 others that I might use. Personally, I like these especially for some of their creative possibilities. As for Mallets, I still like the way Chromaphone works. I am going to hold out for a better offer to add Mallets. Might be nice if they had a special offer for all augments based on a sliding scale. The more you already have, the less the Fill-in-your-missing Augmented Instruments price. I looked at Intro. via the comparison link. MiniFreak V looks nice and I've been impressed with seen some videos of it in action, but not for $199.

5.11.1.6049 now includes support for Pigments 6 (among other changes). This means we can access the Modal synth engine, including editing presets that use the Modal engine. Use ASC to update.

Since I haven't played with Cakewalk Next in a while, I am not sure I can help other than to suggest contacting support for Cakewalk Next if what you want is not covered in the manual or the Help Webpages. Moreover, when I read your post I thought it was not clear what you were trying to do, and I thought maybe someone in the User Community who uses Next might be able to help if you were clear about what you are trying to do. So far as I can tell, you have some pads and knobs somewhere and you seem to want to be able to assign them to specific drum instruments in a drum kit track you have inserted into a project. But that's just a guess. I booted Next and it seems that the kit I tried is already mapped to my usb keyboard and the built-in Virtual Controller. Maybe you are talking about using the built-in pad controller? If so, you might want to search the User Manual (accessed through the Help tab) for "pad controller."

What do you mean? "Map a MIDI?" A MIDI what? MIDI Data, a MIDI Controller? Also, Cakewalk Next has support staff.

I am not familiar with the newer products; My most recent Rolands are from the 1990s. Maybe you know: Is the FA-06 in any way related to the Fantom line? I ask because I do have two files for the Roland Fantom XR: Roland Fantom XR.ins and a separate one called Roland Fantom XR Drum Kits.ins. Not sure where I got them from. Below are the initial file comments for the first file.

Assuming you are talking about a Roland product in their FA line, I looked in my Roland.ins files and didn't see any *.ins files for any in the FA series. Not sure if it was ever "built in." Evidently it wasn't supplied in any of the Cakewalk Instrument Definition Files I downloaded. Maybe another user has one.

Yes. Get a file finder tool.