Rhodes Chroma Polaris

> ... Been trying to get my head around playing a linked patch through 
> midi.
> ... What I want to do is play the linked patch through my midi 
> keyboard like
> you would play from the polaris...

It is best to think of the Polaris in terms of 'instruments.'

By default, there is one instrument created for the 'main' patch.

If there is a 'link', then there is another instrument created for it.

Each instrument normally resides on its own MIDI channel.

So - let's say (for instance) that you have a 'main' patch of A-1 and a 
'link' patch of B-1 - and you're set up with 'link unison' (so that 
whenever you play from the local Polaris keyboard you hear both A-1 and 
B-1 play.

Let's also assume (for instance) that you have the Polaris set up for a 
MIDI base channel of 1.

If you were to look at the MIDI stream from the Polaris you'd monintally 
see data on MIDI Channel 1 (for the 'main' patch instrument) and data on 
MIDI Channel 2 (for the 'link' patch instrument).

If you were to play the Polaris - record the MIDI data just like that - 
and then play it back to the Polaris - then you'd get exactly what you'd 
played.  Namely you'd record data on MIDI Channel 1 and MIDI Channel 2. 
When you play that back to the Polaris - the Polaris will play the 'main 
instrument' on MIDI Channel 1 and the link instrument on MIDI Channel 
2 - and you'll hear two patches sound (because you are actually playing 
two different instruments at the same time, via MIDI).

Are you experiencing a difficulty in having that sort of behaviour 
occur - or are you trying to have it so that you have an external 
keyboard send data on _one_ MIDI channel but have the Polaris internally 
use that to play _both_ the main and link patches/instruments at the 
same time?

David Clarke