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I'm fairly certain the published midi specification is very limited in what it covers. For instance, I don't think anyone knows how to port the free EGs.

Nate



> On Oct 24, 2013, at 3:23 AM, "derek192603" <dacook.sa432bb@btinternet.com> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I don't understand why you would want to reverse engineer the SYSEX format that AN1xEdit would be using, when it is defined in the AN1x Data List Manual! :-)
>
> Cheers
> Derek
>
> --- In AN1x-list@yahoogroups.com, Juan Pablo Cuervo <audioprof2001@...> wrote:
> >
> > SysEx reverse eng. is very easy...
> >
> > Install MidiOX, MIDIYoke, AN Expert Editor or XGWorks with AN Editor plugin,
> > PlayOnMac if OSX.
> > done.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wednesday, October 23, 2013 12:20 PM, Sean King <skseanking1@...> wrote:
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> >
> > Yeah I had feeling it was Yamaha's fault...  lets all complain to them!    I do understand why they would have no interest in making an editor available on osx for a synth that came out in 1997.  But come on...  im sure a lot of an1x owners would use it.
> > On Oct 23, 2013 12:54 PM, "Peter Korsten" <peter@...> wrote:
> >
> >
> > >
> > >Sean King schreef op 22-10-2013 21:33:
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> > >
> > >its really silly there is no mac�osx�an1xeditor and it is only for ppc... �it cant�be that hard to port to mac�osx�and its a shame that whoever made the program won't�just fork over the source code.... if the source code could be available somehow, that'd be great.
> > >>
> > >It might be silly, but there's a good reason for it. Gary Gregson
> > was contracted by Yamaha to write the editor for Windows and MacOS.
> > At the time, there was no OS X, and there certainly weren't any
> > Intel-based Macs (except perhaps in Cupertino).
> > >
> > >The rights of the source code reside with Yamaha, so Gary can't
> > publish them. He presumably also can't go and rewrite it for OS X
> > and Intel, apart from the fact that Yamaha wouldn't pay for this
> > port.
> > >
> > >So: complain to Yamaha. They're the ones that are sitting on the
> > source code and not doing anything with it.
> > >
> > >- Peter
> > >
> >
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