Microstation - assign combi sounds to songtracks ???

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templates:

templates will load in basically new COMBI setups to the SEQ menu.
templates usually divide the 16 parts into different midi channels to allow you overdub different parts, and set up your SEQ like a MIDI file playback (16 part multitimbral)

if you want a slightly different approach, you might want to try COPY FROM COMBI...
so, you're on the SEQ page and you select from the utility menu COPY FROM COMBI.
choose your combi, and the FX! ! ! (otherwise, same problem with the PROGs).

what this can do for you is to load any COMBI setup into the SEQ and then save these as templates, or just use the same method and use the COMBI banks as template libraries....

one snag - most of the COMBIs are setup so that the keyboard plays the whole COMBI part (usually on Gch or Midi Ch1), and there will be probably about half the other parts (of the 16 slots) that are unused (L/R Piano... or, INIT PROG)...

you're going to have to tinker around with the midi channel settings and keyboard zones to get the thing to divide out the way you want it, so that you can overdub parts, but at least you get the SAME FX LAYOUT that you have when you are in COMBI mode... and things SOUND the SAME ! !
and THAT is satisfying.

get my explaination???

Thanks for breaking that down. I'll definitely keep that in mind the next time I toy around with my MS.