Radias timbre patch change limitation in DAW

[ericwbusby]

i have the radias-r which i store in a rack and do most programing from my DAW.

so this is what i can do:

if i set up my DAW to have 5 tracks

track 1 set to midi channel 1 - global parameters
track 2 set to midi channel 2 - which plays timbre 1
track 3 set to midi channel 3 - which plays timbre 2
track 4 set to midi channel 4 - which plays timbre 3
track 5 set to midi channel 10 - which plays timbre 4 that i use as a drum timbre

in my DAW i can change the radias program from A01-H16 by setting the bank to 0 and the program to 1 - 128 in track 1. to select programs I01- P16 I set the bank to 1 and the programs to 1-128.

that makes 256 radias programs with 4 timbres each (if i dont use drums) that makes 1024 different patches i can select (if they are all programmed to have sounds in them and not empty).

now the problem i'm having is: let say that when i want to send a patch change to an individual timber. in my DAW i select track 2-4 which is set to midi channel 2 and controls timbre 1.

i then in the DAW the bank select to 0 and the program change to 1 - 128 which changes the patch on the indiviual timber. which seem to be the first timbre in the radias programs A01 - H16.

if i change the bank select to 1 i get access to the same 128 patches instead of the first timbres in I01- P16

in fact the bank select seams to nothing on the individual timbres

again by my count there should be 8 banks with 128 patches totaling 1024 individual patches unless i'm using all the fourth timbres in all the radias programs to drums that should still give that should still give me 6 banks totaling 768 indivdual patches.

also lets say i on midi channel 10 to control my 4th timbre and want to change to 1 of the 32 different drum programs from the daw. i change the bank and program select and nothing happens. this is the second limitation

i imagine this is the problem with the radias OS and am hoping for an update but was wondering if anyone has found away around this limitation.

i love this little machine but i need to have more access to my programs from the DAW and not have to go over to my rack to select them.

the only fix i have found for the drum selection is to set the global banks and programs from my daw and have duplicate programs in the Radias execept with a different drum in the fourth timbre. the problem here is that any tweeks and changes you made the the program and reset when you change the global programs back and forth

any other fixes people know of ?