initializing sound banks for JV-2080

The easiest way is to grab the SoundDiver beta.

Add a JV2080 from the install window, and in it's special parameters, enable each expansion board you have.

Now you can double click on the 2080 to open it's memory manager, and all the names of the contents of the expansion boards will be there. Simply select a bank, copy to the clipboard, then in Logic, paste the names in to the bank you want.

Or you could try and find listings of these cards on the net and format them in a text editor, to paste them into the Logic multi in the same way.

If you tell me what expansion boards you have in which bank, I could do it for you if you get stuck.

hi tonelech, maybe you can find some helpful stuff in here,

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'audio instrument' vs. 'midi instrument'

Well let's start there. An "Audio Instrument" is a class of an audio object, and it's displayed in the environment as a regular audio channel, with a fader, input and output, inserts etc. It lets you insert an instrument plugin in it's input, and receives MIDI data which plays the loaded instrument plugin, the audio of which is played to whatever output is selected.

A MIDI instrument is simply an environment object that takes incoming MIDI data (optionally processes it) and sends it on either to it's cable output, or to a MIDI port.

So if you have an external synth (say, Virus) connected on MIDI Port 1, on MIDI channel one, you'd create an instrument object called Virus, and specify Port 1, Channel 1.

Now with that object selected on an arrange track, the MIDI in your regions will be sent through it, and out to MIDI Port 1 on channel 1, and your Virus would play the notes.

Finding patch lists isn't a problem, because I have those

Ok.

But I can't seem to successfully copy and paste them into the banks.
I goto bank 14 and select "paste all names" (which I have copied
from the patch list in my word processor) but the names get
pasted to bank 6 instead!

Er, not sure what's going on there, I've never had a problem pasting in names - it's difficult to say without seeing what you are doing. You can always copy banks of names between banks anyway.

Another problem is that I've got four new expansion boards
I need to initialize and I've already filled 14 of the 15 banks
available in my JV-2080 multi-instrument.

Yes, that's a little more tricky and has been a limitation of Logic for some time. Thre are ways around it that involve some environment work, but if you're a newbie at that it might be tricky...

When you paste the names make sure you use the local paste from the multi instrument's menu.

If you have alot of expansion cards you may have to create 2 multi instruments and have banks 1-14 in one and another pick up the remaining banks.

Then I bought autosampler and sampled my favorite patches and dumped the 5080.

Hello, I have quite a few racks and boards that I have connected via midi to Logic 7. I want to be able to get the names of the patches into the Logic sub channel Multi- instrument window. Funny thing is my older racks somehow have their patch names in the window but I can't remember how they got in. I have newer racks and boards that I want to add. They're already connected in the environment.Now bare with me because I'm TOTALLY in the dark about how to do this.I read on another message you needed word processing software to import something. Please explain to me what I need, where I may be able to get it, and after that slowly walk me through how to do it. Your help would be much appreciated. Have alot of work 2 do and this holding me WAYYYY back from progress. So your quick yet thorough response is appreciated.