Instrument Definitions Last updated on 3/22/2016 Please select a topic from the links below to jump to a section in this article: • • • • • • Instrument definitions are a powerful feature that make it easier for you to find the banks, patches, and controllers of your MIDI instruments. An instrument definition is a file that contains the names of the banks, patches, note names, bank select method, and controllers of an instrument. Instrument definitions for many popular MIDI instruments are included with Cakewalk software. If an instrument definition is not available for your instrument, and you are familiar with MIDI and how it works, you can import or create your own instrument definition. Most MIDI instruments available today are General MIDI (GM) compatible, which means that they come with the standard set of sounds or patches defined by the GM standard.

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Your Cakewalk software initially assumes that your MIDI instruments are GM compatible. The names of patches and controllers that you initially see displayed throughout your Cakewalk software are drawn from the GM specification. At the same time, many MIDI instruments provide additional sounds and controllers beyond those required by the GM standard.

In addition, some older MIDI instruments are not GM compatible. If you are using one of these instruments, you can use instrument definitions to make sure that the names of banks, patches, and controllers that you see in your Cakewalk software are the same ones you see on the display screens of your MIDI keyboards and modules. Please Note: More in-depth information about creating/importing/assigning Instrument Definitions specific to your Cakewalk software can be found in your Help documentation. Press F1 to load your Help document and see the Topic and Sub-Topics under 'Instrument Definitions' displayed on the Content tab. If you are trying to locate Instrument Definitions for your hardware, you should first check to find out if it was already included with your Cakewalk software. If you cannot locate the correct ones for your hardware, you can use the downloads below to see if our archive has them available. • • If you cannot locate the appropriate Instrument Definitions for your hardware, try contacting your hardware manufacturer to see if they have them available.

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Some manufacturer's have utilities that will generate the file for you. One example of this is Roland Backstage, which has a script that builds instrument definitions for various Roland devices. You will need to create an account at to be able to access this.

Afterwards, you can access the script builder at Please Note: More in-depth information about creating/importing/assigning Instrument Definitions specific to your Cakewalk software can be found in your Help documentation. Press F1 to load your Help document and see the Topic and Sub-Topics under 'Instrument Definitions' displayed on the Content tab. To import instrument definitions • Go to Edit > Preferences > MIDI - Instruments ( Options > Instruments in legacy software) • Click Define to display the Define Instruments and Names dialog box. • Click Import to display the Import Instrument Definitions dialog box. • Choose the file that contains instrument definitions for your manufacturer, and then click Open. Your Cakewalk software will display a list of all the instrument definitions in the file.

• Choose one or more instruments from the list, and click OK. • Click Close to close the Define Instruments and Names dialog box. The instrument definitions you imported should now appear in the Uses Instrument list in the Assign Instruments dialog box. Please Note: More in-depth information about creating/importing/assigning Instrument Definitions specific to your Cakewalk software can be found in your Help documentation. Press F1 to load your Help document and see the Topic and Sub-Topics under 'Instrument Definitions' displayed on the Content tab. If you want your MIDI tracks in your Cakewalk software to use an instrument definition that you have imported, you need to specify which MIDI ports of your hardware you wish to use the instrument definition. You can do this by doing the following: • Go to Edit > Preferences > MIDI - Instruments ( Options > Instruments in legacy software • Select one or more MIDI outputs and channels from the Output/Channel list (use SHIFT-click and CTRL-click to select multiple outputs and channels).