I have a 4-track “backup band” in a Pattern. Section E contains a 2 bar jam that repeats so that I can play lead in front of it.

To record that jam, I decided to put this 2 bar jam into a Song. So I used the “Put Phrase to Song” job on each of the four tracks. It worked, kind of, but there was this unpleasant pause/glitch at the beginning of the first bar, and it happened on every repetition of the two bars.

I looked into this using the MIDI editor on the XF, and found that there was a Program Change event at the very beginning of each track in the song. It looks like it’s (unnecessarily) selecting the Voice for that track. I looked at it in Cubase, and it’s a sequence of three MIDI events:

CC 0
CC 32
Program Change

I was able to fix the problem by deleting the Program Change event(s).

Is the “Put Phrase to Song” job supposed to do this? If so, why?

Is there a way to get the job not to do this?

CC#00 is Bank Select MSB
CC#32 is Bank Select LSB

Those events, along with Program Change, select a specific Voice.

See:
http://www.motifator.com/index.php/forum/viewthread/445407/
http://www.motifator.com/index.php/forum/viewthread/457560/