Schlüter Michael - INTEGRA-7 by Instruments

high-quality string tones

useful with classical, rock, pop, dance, and film scores

stereo-sampled full sections

individually recorded violin, viola, cello, and contrabass sections

extensive collection of the standard sounds

needed in dance music, including techno, house, hip hop, trance, 2-step, and drum 'n' bass

collection provides sounds that can be broadly used in each of these styles

offers all the standard orchestral sounds

also includes various choir and vocal phrases

can be used for orchestral arrangements, film scoring, and more

includes various piano, electric piano, organ, clavi, and vintage synth sounds

provides high-quality bass and drum sounds of famous musicians

widely useful for pop music

numerous sounds for dance music (techno, house, hip hop, trance, drum bass, breakbeats, RB)

includes phrase loops, synth bass, synth sounds, various hits and stabs, and vocal phrases

provides a variety of string, wind, and percussive ethnic instruments from around the world

Africa, Asia, the Middle East, South America, North America, Australia, and Europe

provides numerous realistic brass sounds

can be broadly used in any style, including pop, rock, classical, and film scores

includes Pop Brass (Bb Tp x2, Tb, Tnr Sax), Trumpet (Bb Tp x4), C Trumpet (C Tp x4), Trombone (Tb x4), and Horn (Hrn x4) sections, in addition to Solo Tuba

captures that instrument's performance techniques such as falls, shakes, and rips

high-quality piano sounds

useful from pop and jazz, in fil scores and classical

realistic and high-quality grand piano sound that has been sampled at four velocity-switched levels for each of the 88 keys

provides high-quality electric piano and clavi sounds

which became indispensable to numerous musical styles, including RnB, hip hop, pop, and jazz

electric pianos have been recorded at four velocity-switched levels for each individual note of three different classic 73-key and 64-key models

clavi sounds capture all four pickup settings as well as mute on/off settings

Looking for non-drum tones suitable for creating film music may draw your attention to:

SRX-04 Symphonique Strings

SRX-06 Complete Orchestra - synth tone

SRX-10 Big Brass Ensemble.

Unless you select a tone from the presets, you have to load the bank which hosts the tone. You can do it in two ways:

using the front-panel

sending a MIDI sysex-message.

To load an Extension Sound into one of the 4 virtual slots manually just follow the Owners Manual [Inte12a] :

press the MENU button

use the wheel or the cursor to select EXPANSION

press the ENTER button

assign Extensions Sounds to 1 - 4 virtual slots A - D.

According to [Wond18] you can send a sysex message, i.e. this byte-string in generalized form:

F0 41 10 00 00 64 11 0F 00 30 00 aa bb cc dd F7, with aa - dd being bytes taken from the table below, controling slots A - D, respectively.

To understand this byte-string let's examine its components:

F0 signals the start of the sysex message, while F7 terminates it

41 10 00 00 64 11 initiates a “Data Request 1 (RQ1)” command, according to [Midi12], where 10 is the default device number

0F 00 30 00 is an entry in the Parameter Address Map, which is unfortunately undocumented in [Midi12] - it seems to request loading up to 4 Extension Sounds

this request has to provide 4 bytes, aa bb cc dd

according to [Wond18] an extra byte with the calculated check-sum is not necessary, which is also verified by the author.

Please note : Loading the ExPCM bank still occupies all 4 virtual slots, i.e. any content there will be overwritten.

Please note : Loading via sysex also takes some time.

To load SRX-07 into slot A, and ExSN1 into slot C, while turning off slots B and D, send this sysex-message:

F0 41 10 00 00 64 11 0F 00 30 00 07 00 0D 00 F7

This chapter will be the most comprehensive one. It structures excerpts from the Sound List [Inte12b] this way:

category (chapter)

tones (sub chapter)

tone names, i.e. instruments (table).

The tables will list:

the tones name according to the Sound List [Inte12b]

its starting page in the Sound List [Inte12b]

its tone number

a compound byte string (hex), which you can copy and send directly to the INTEGRA-7.

In the header-line a tones category is repeated in brackets for your convenience: else it's easy to get lost in the tables. This way you can see at a glance, in which category you are.

To send the byte-string given in column snd use programs or hardware like, e.g.:

SendSX [Send19]

sendmidi [Rele19]

Pure Data [Pure20]

any suitable software or hardware sequencer

any suitable DAW.

You need to load the tones bank as described beforehand to hear the tone after sending the byte-string as MIDI-message to your INTEGRA-7. If you don't load a bank, you won't hear anything though after submitting the byte-string the INTEGRA-7 displays the correct instrument.

Say you look for an organ. Going to the organ-chapter, the Organ-table tells you, there are 11 banks to chose from.

Say the tones name “Jazzy B” sounds interesting to you and you want to try it. The table tells you it's in the bank called “SRX-07 Ultimate Keys - synth tone”. So you load it as described earlier.

When using the INTEGRA-7's front panel for this bank, you know from the table it's number is 102 and you dial it in.

If you use a sequencer instead, just submit B0 00 5D 20 0B C0 67to INTEGRA-7, as the table tells you.

The byte-string snd listed in the instrument tables:

consists of two BS-messages (starting with 0xB0) for MIDI channel 1 and one PC-message (starting with 0xC0) [Bell09]

the BS-messages are combined