Hi Omar, Yes, I do have quarter-inch cables that runs from my synthe to my studio monitor subwoofer, which have the two sattellite speakers off of that. Also, I did what you suggested but first I shut down the computer. No midi cables are connecting the synthe to the sound card now; synthe is only connected via USB. There is sound now but the patch changes are still not matched up. Still only getting the synthe's general midi patches. Kim Ellsworth _____ From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Omar Binno Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2006 9:10 PM To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Bank/Patch Changes Not Matching Up Do you have any audio quarter inch cables running out of your synth? Omar Binno ----- Original Message ----- From: Kim <mailto:jbkim72@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Ellsworth To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2006 9:01 PM Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Bank/Patch Changes Not Matching Up Hi Omar, My intention is to get a mixer just as soon as I can find one that suits my needs. I did try the synthesizer on external USB; however, the midi cables were still connected to the sound card. I did disconnect those cables, told the sound card USB audio device for both input and output but then no sounds were coming from my synthesizer with just the USB communication. Thanks, Kim Ellsworth _____ From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Omar Binno Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2006 8:53 PM To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Bank/Patch Changes Not Matching Up If you're using USB to connect your board to the computer, you don't use the MIDI connection. You use either or. You have to find out if your synthesizer is set to MIDI or USB. You're really not getting full use out of everything unless you have a mixer. Omar Binno ----- Original Message ----- From: Kim <mailto:jbkim72@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Ellsworth To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2006 7:29 PM Subject: [ddots-l] Bank/Patch Changes Not Matching Up Hi everyone, Please, please help me! I no I almost have everything setup properly between my synthesizer (Korg Triton Extreme), my sound card (M-Audio Delta LT 1010) and my desktop computer. I've read and read the Cake Talking tutorial on the subject of midi, hardware setup, etc. until I'm blue in the face. I'm so close, yet still so far from being able to start recording. Situation: 1. Currently, my Korg is connected to the desktop via two routes; via USB to the computer(we were told to do this by the dealer where we bought the synthe) and by two midi cables (input and output of course that go directly to the sound card). 2. Right now, until I can get a mixer, I have a set of monitor speakers to listen to the synthesizer through. 3. I am running Sonar 4, producer edition and Cake Talking 4.0.3. OS on desktop machine is Windows XP Home, SP2. 4. I followed the instructions on configuring Sonar to recognize the Delta 1010, ran the Cake Talk tests at the beginning of this whole setup and everything was successful. 5. I imported the korg.ins file in the import instrument deffinitions dialog and that appeared successfull as the patch names for the banks in the program and combi mode show up properly when choosing patch names. However, when I cycle through the patch names after choosing a bank via Sonar, the sounds do change on the synthe side but it's not the correct patch; rather, no matter what bank I choose and what patch I choose via sonar, it is only picking the synthesizer's general midi patch sounds and not the sounds that are specific to the Korg. Example, in Sonar, I choose Bank a, Patch name keyboard piano and strings. This is a patch that on the actual synthesizer does indeed belong to bank A. Yet, the synthe switches to harpsichord instead. Am I making sense? By the way, Local Mode is set to off, enable bank, program and combi changes are all turned on. I played around a bit with the input and output of midi ports but currently I have the input set to the Delta and the output set to USB audio device, which is how my Korg shows up in Sonar and in the midi devices in my sounds and audio properties of my computer. I apologize for making this a novel but trying to give as much information as possible that may be of some help and also, I've been working on trying to get this setup for a while now and a bit frustrated that I cannot figure this thing out on my own. Kind Regards, Kim Ellsworth __________ NOD32 1.1784 (20060929) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com