Right now I'm using Anvil Studio w/ the 'ProMix' add-on. I have Cubase Artist 7 on the way. I have the information (I think), and if I new the format I could probably do the conversion myself. Anvil wants either a.INS or a.MLB file, and I have the Cubase file for the MM6, which has the data in it; but isn't recognized (even with the file extension changed) the data. I have a support request in to Anvil for both keyboards. They may have it covered. I was just hoping for a 'generic' sort of capability.
What I am looking for is a proper Cakewalk Instrument Definitions File for. Considering that Roland actually owns Cakewalk and since the JD-XI has been.
.INS files are Cakewalk files. For the complete list of available Cakewalk INS files which ship with current Cakewalk products you can download them from here: and here: And it's not always necessary to have an exact match for your model of keyboard. Often it's good enough to simply have an INS file for a close relative. The patch list for the Korg x50 may be a close enough match to your M1 to work well enough. The X50 list works pretty well for my TR76 which is Triton Based. Manufacturers tend to stick to the same basic patch layout whenever they design a newer keyboard.
To answer your question I'll put to you another question. Why is a Microsoft Word File not compatible with a Wordperfect File and not compatible with an OpenOffice File? Different DAWs are different softwares created by different individuals and different programmers. Manuel Du Pilote Ulm Pdf Files. Often there are patent and trademark and copyright issues attached to each data file format, so rather than face an army of lawyers and pay outrageous licensing fees, each company will simply design and copyright its own file format.
This should be of no great surprise to anyone who has been around computers and has not been living under a rock for any extended period during the past 30 years. Industry standards occasionally come to pass when huge corporations agree to a consensus on hardware devices or when a single corporation has obliterated all competition in a particular product line and by attrition of all other contenders simply do not possess enough market share to remain relevant.
MIDI hardware and MIDI language was the result of a consensus by a consortium. Microsoft windows became a standard by pretty much obliterating all competition to date. All the rest of the software world are still fighting it out. Perhaps if Micro$oft got into the DAW writing business there would suddenly be a clear winner and there would be a de facto standard. As it now stands, however, there are many, many, many, many different but equal contenders out there for your software dollar and market forces have not as yet reached any final decision. Just be thankful that the Cakewalk INS format was one of the first such files to be created and has survived pretty much unchanged for over 20 years and that Cakewalk does not exercise any real muscle when it comes to enforcing its copyrights in this area and allows other programmers to create conversion scripts and utilities without taking some broke assed programmer to court for creating an import or conversion utility.
Actually if I had to say so, the Cakewalk INS file is pretty much as close to a standard for MIDI Instrument Definitions as exists today. If you're going to blame anyone, blame all the other companies who insist on doing it their own way simply to monopolize their own market share for their products. Gary, before this gets out of hand just let me say I've been an engineer for 30+ years, using computers, writing code for a wide variety of purposes including controlling sophisticated hardware. The instruments we're talking about are not as 'individual' as you're suggesting they might be; but that's neither here nor there.Compatibility of word processor file formats really isn't all that relevant IMHO. The real point of my question is: why is there not repository for these files that allows 'us' to access them for the instruments we choose and the DAW software we bought and paid for? I've just purchased Cubase Artist 7, only to find that it only includes 'support' (in the form of instrument definitions) for Yamaha Motif keyboards. Yes, I can get examples of these files and use my own editor to create something that works; but why do I find this necessary?
Word processor file formats are entirely relevant to this discussion. If you've been a working engineer for the past thirty years then you should know better than most that each company supports its own product and nobody else's. Coffee Break Screenwriter Pdf Free on this page. Steinberg was bought out by Yamaha.
Cakewalk was bought out by Roland. They each choose to 'officially support' their own products and very little else. You and I both know that GM doesn't make parts for Ford vehicles and Ford doesn't make parts for Toyotas. That's the way the game is played in the free market system. A deranged software patent system exists today solely for the purpose of keeping large corporations at each others' throats in court and each corporation will litigate til the end of time to protect their intellectual property rights in this system. Point of fact is that Cakewalk generously published the filespec of the INS file on the internet with an open invitation to the user community to write their own INS files and distribute them freely in any way they see fit.