It’s a shot in the dark: has anyone accidentially integrated a Juno DS in his setup and would be willing to share the respective programming blocks with me?
I’d like to change patches automatically when switching songs in the setlist AND at the same time turn off reverb after switching to a new patch (the factory presets all have too much room/reverb).
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I do have a DS-61 but to be honest, i haven’t connected it to GP yet… it’s just my backup instrument for small jam sessions or for playing outdoor (works well with a battery pack), when a Masterkeyboard plus PC-Bundle would be too much stuff to carry around (or when there would be no electricity).
In Gig Performer’s Setlist mode, you can not only specify a Program Change which would be sent on activation of a song part, but also (that was only for PC reception) there is a space for a midi message to be sent:
Song Part Properties (gigperformer.com)
So, according to the MIDI-implementation chart of the Juno-DS, there might be the option to just send a value 0 on CC#91 to the DS to set te reverb send-level to zero… if i am not misinterpreting things. 
Have a look on page 5 / item “Effect 1”
JUNO-DS_MIDI_Implementation (roland.com)
If this shouldn’t work, you most probably had to compose a SysEx message, cause if you search that document for “reverb” you will find quite some parameters which can be used to adjust reverb - but i hope that the easy way will work.
You can also have a look at the MIDI-Chart to see how the soundbanks of the DS are organized, so you will see which Bank you’ll have to switch to if you want to send a PC to the synth.
Maybe this helps a bit. 
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This helps a LOT! Thx!!! Will get to it right away 
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Good luck!
Currently using a DS88 in my setup. Disclaimer: I don’t use the onboard Juno patches in my setup, but I have used midi messages to change patches from an FCB1010 in the past.
What you are trying to do should be fairly straightforward, but I’d personally go with a slightly different method than @schamass, though you could definitely go this route. Instead of choosing a patch and then sending a separate CC to control effect levels, I’d modify the existing patch to your liking, and then save the modified patch as a user patch. This way you can call the user patch with bank select messages (using the midi implementation guide linked above) and it will already have the reverb/whatever other effects at your preferred levels. I might even take it a step further and set up a performance preset with your desired patches/effects in each of the slots. This way, if you ever want to change the patch out for a different sound, you would just have to trade out the patch in the performance preset slot and you could keep the midi out information coming from gig performer the same.
As @schamass noted above as well, you can set up gig performer to send midi out messages for each song and song part. The bank select messages will allow you to select your desired patches. Can’t remember the factory default settings on the Juno as it’s been so long since I’ve changed things around, but you may need to go into the system settings of the Juno and turn on/off certain options to allow the keyboard to receive midi messages to select patches. Hope this helps!
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Yeah, thanks!! True, I actually HAVE “custom” presets most of the time (ain’t the editor software by Roland an eye-killer?), but for jam sessions and spontaneous sound finding missions I gotta have the factory presets ready on a whim. I’ll just make two separate GP presets with both your solutions. Great stuff!!
You said it! Seems like they wanted replicate all the tedium and clunkiness of using the onboard LCD screen menu, but on a desktop.
Remembers me of a onnce upon a long ago job I had - needed to access city housing data on a DOS machine, monochromatic green computer screen, keyboard control, no mouse and so on. Someone decided it was time for technological change, up the specs a bit: 19" colour monitor, mouse and windows instead of DOS. Result: the same DOS thing, only in a tiny window on the new screen, accessible only via keyboard, but you could choose the text colour 
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