Program changes by Ableton

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Program changes by Ableton

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After 10x reading the manual and searching the forum, I still don't really understand how to change programs by midi (send by Ableton).

In Ableton you can send a Bank, Sub an PGM value. In the manual they give values for Bank MSB, LSB and Program Change.

For example, how can I change the program to B25 on the NS3? Which values in Ableton I have to put? In the NS3 I have made sure that he can receive midi messages.
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Basic midi: MSB= control 000, LSB= control 032 and + program change that you want to select. You need to sen these 3 messages.
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I still dont see the meaning of the values.

If you want a program in A-E bank= 0 subbank = 0
If you want a program in F-J bank = 0 subbank = 1

How do calculate the program value? Just counting from the first program in bank A?
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Re: Program changes by Ableton

Post by maxpiano »

Program count restarts at the beginning of each Bank, but there is an easier way than calculating: use a MIDI Monitor and see what the NS3 sends on its Global channel when you change to that Bank/Program.

See also this discussion nord-stage-forum-f3/changing-ns3-progra ... 14611.html
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