So don't say 'it should be easy to add this or that' - it's not.Instrument definitions make life easier when using hardware instruments or effects with Sonar. For one, it would require to add a converter for existing songs to switch to the new (old) MIDI format. PreSonus is not going to revert this design decision (which was hubris, IMHO) and rewrite Studio One. So in Sonar I could auto-select the right song in my Kronos sequencer or load/save it's setup, and in Studio One it's not possible, and I have to turn to the instrument, enter Disk mode and load/save the Sequencer there. Also, there is no SysEx support, and it won't be added, ever. What they failed to see is that 128 is greater than 100, so you won't be able to select some banks and patches because of rounding errors.Īlso, there are no Event Lists, for the same reason: there is simply no MIDI in your songs.

It comes with a formula for MSB, LSB and Patch number: (100 / 128) x MSB. Yes, unsupported - I saw their suggestion how to add Program Change automation in your Instrument Tracks. Better support for virtual instruments? As far as I know, Kontakt and anything else not PreSonus is still controlled by MIDI.Īnyway, there is no MIDI inside your songs in Studio One! That's why patch names are unsupported. Have you noticed 'Look Mom, No MIDI!' in Studio One Reference Manual? It was a major design decision: once MIDI events arrive to Studio One, it converts them into it's own internal format, and converts back to MIDI when sending out. A short description by the author how to use it in Studio One can be found at the bottom of the site under 'discussion'. Then you can use the plugin with your favorites INS-files to switch between the sounds on your external MIDI-hardware. You have to monitoring both tracks and of course the input and output channel have to be configured correctly. One Instrument track (MIDI) for your external Hardware and one track with the SELECTOR-plugin.

A little disadvantage is that in S1 you have to use two tracks for it. Presonus now acknowledged this and I really hope they will implement this feature in the nearly future.įor a workaround with using instrument definitions - files from Sonar/Cakewalk I found on KVRAUDIO a quite new vst-plugin called SELECTOR, which uses INS-Files for switching between the banks and programs on your external midi-hardware. Together there are nearly 60 votes for this, not so bad. I talked with Presonus two weeks ago and made them attentive that here are four different feature request wishing the same. Yes it is a little pity that Studio One doesn't support this feature at this moment.

Cakewalk instrument definitions