On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 01:28:23PM +0100, Christian Schoenebeck wrote:
> Hi everybody!
>
> I wonder what's the common behavior for a synth/sampler regarding MIDI bank
> select messages. You might know that MIDI has splitted bank indeces into two
> values MSB (coarse) and LSB (fine) value. So the "optimal" behavior would be
> a device / sequencer to send a MSB and a LSB bank select message to change
> the current bank. But many older keyboards for example won't do that. I've
> heard most of them only send MSB bank selects, while few others send only LSB
> bank selects. Is that true?
>

hello,

i haven't seen such a keyboard sice around 1995. I dont think that
any recent midi keyboard uses MSB only (or LSB only) bank
controllers.