Suddenly developed wrong drum sound

Hi, again:

Okay. From what I can see, the first problem lies in the fact that the "Sorry" midi file has a master track (which appears at the top of the Composer Staff Setup box).

This Master track contains ALL of the voice and other sysex information for the song. It sets each channel's voice allocation first. There is no voice information in the individual channel tracks.

Unfortunately, I think that Composer is interpreting no voice information as Voice 000 or Grand Piano and, because the Master Track is Track #1, the lower tracks supercede the voicing information in the Master Track.

So, the Master Track sends the voice information, then each succeeding track is reset to Grand Piano because it has no specific setting and Composer defaults.

Is that possible, Mark?

Secondly, the several drum tracks are not set to the XG Drum Sets bank, which is sloppy programming for a commercial track. They work correctly if set to the drum bank. Two are on Channel 11 which is unusual but not necessarily wrong: I suppose the Master Track sets some FX or other settings specifically for those two sounds that the programmers didn't want on the other (Channel 10) sounds.

Thirdly, as this problem is persistent, I wonder whether you have batteries in your Yamaha keyboard, Lawrence? If so, that would possibly account for the non-resetting of the mucked up sounds. If you have batteries, pop one out for a couple of minutes and see if things are reset. IIRC, holding down the top key while powering on the keyboard should do the same, but I might be wrong on that.

FYI, the Master Track voice settings are:

Channel 2 Synth Brass 2
Channel 3 Slow Strings
Channel 4 Piano 1
Channel 5 Clean Gt.
Channel 6 Synth Brass 2
Channel 7 Synth Brass 1
Channel 8 Muted Gt.
Channel 9 Choir Aahs
Channel 10 Standard Kit
Channel 11 Syn Brass 2
Channel 12 Distorion Gt
Channel 13 Flute
Channel 14 Polysynth

Channel 1 seems to left to default to Piano.

Each channel has Volume, Pan, Expression and Effects 1 and 3 settings in the Master Track as well. And there is a 400-and-some byte Sysex bank which I didn't interpret yet.

I would think that you should be able to get it to work properly by manually setting each drum track to the XG Drum Bank and adding the above Voice settings into each track.

I would also consider muting or deleting the Master Track (top track in the Staff Setup box). I'm not sure what the Sysex does, but it probably isn't going to work with XGLite, just with full XG.

Be sure to save that under a new name.

Hope that helps.

David