MIDI program change

[bowserb61]

I've had MMV for a while now and I finally got myself a respectable MIDI controller. Part of the reason I wanted a better controller is so I could change patches just by using one of the program change buttons, and it does that. however, it only changes between a handfull of factory preset sounds and the manual doesn't seem to know a way to change this. First of all, is it possible to assign different patches to different buttons, and if it is, how? Thanks, and sorry for the newbie question.

[bowserb61]

FINALLY got it figured out. For anyone who has the same problem, here's how i did it.

It ended up being more of a hardware adjustment than a software one. I had to program my controller to send a bank message as well as a program message. So what i was getting before was just being stuck selecting patches within bank 1 only. MMV recognizes bank numbers in the order of the list of banks, the first one is 0 all the way to whatever bank you want to select from. The patch number is done in the same way with 0 being the first patch in that bank and so on. So if I wanted to assign a button to call up the 3rd patch on the 14th bank of MMV, I would set that button on my controller to call up bank 13, patch 2.

[Sweep]

Thanks for that. We really need a central knowledge bank with information like this collected in it.

In the meantime, I'm currently getting a website together (a joint site with Infinite 9ths from this forum), and I'm writing a page on the Mg modular with a section on the Arturia MMV. Would it be ok if I quote this information for that page, and credit you with having done the work to sort this out?

[bowserb61]

sure thing, it should say, though, that the bank numbers actually start from 1, rather than 0, while the patches do start with 0 at the top of the list.