Casio CZ/ VZ/ FZ - Pro Series

Hi' again Steve

And thank you VERY much for your detailed explanations! -

Actually, after posting my question (juli 12th), which for some 
strange reasons outside my control, took more than a week to make it 
to the messageboard, I read your previous post about single sound sys-
ex dumps (that of juli 17th) and I experimented a little further, and 
got part of it to work. Only I didn't get the soundnames when I 
restored the dumps, the reason being that your first explanation was 
a little unclear about what to change the "30" to - the text said "20 
60" but the example "21 60", and I now - having read the very 
detailed explanation in your previous message - understand that what 
I did was restore the sounds as if they were in CZ-101 format (using 
the "20 60" substitution). But with your new extended "How-to-guide", 
I can dump and restore single sounds - with their names - to and from 
MIDI-OX easy. Thats nice!

The three methods below, embedding the acknowledge-bytes, works fine 
from MIDI-OX (the third request gives 47 bytes of data, that I 
presume are the OP-MEM data, but I don't know  how to check) 


--- In CZsynth@yahoogroups.com, "steve_the_composer" <smw-mail@p...> 
wrote:
> I am curious to know if the trick I use with Cakewalk works with 
> midiox.  Could someone with midi-ox test it and report back here?
> 
> Embed the CZ ack [7n 31] in the original send request:
> 
> F0 44 00 00 7n 10 dd 7n 31 F7 [CZ-101 data format]
> F0 44 00 00 7n 11 dd 7n 31 F7 [CZ-1 data format]
> F0 44 00 00 7n 12 dd 7n 31 F7 [CZ-1 op-mem data]
> 
> where dd = patch number and n = channel - 1.

About your idea of writing a sys-ex manual, if theres enough 
interest, I'll say its a really great and generous idea. I'm sure a 
lot of people in here would appreciate such an initiative. Maybe we 
could make it at group thing, and others of us could contribute in 
different ways? - testing out with different programs, adding and 
discussing our experiences, drawing nice diagrams or such, and maybe 
we could end up with an "Everything a CZ-owner always wanted to know 
about SysEx, but never dared to ask about" that could be made into a 
a fancy PDF for downloading.



whey ... last minute news!!! I've just found out something, while 
working on this message :-)


Regarding the problem about not getting sys-ex sound-data by just 
pushing the sound-selection buttons, even if I assured that the synth 
was transmitting sys-ex, I have found out that it, I hope, was only a 
problem with the way MIDI-OX was configured. I haven't completely 
checked it out in details yet, but the reason seems to be that MIDI-
OX was looping the input back to the synth again, and therefore (my 
guess) interrupting the sys-ex transmission in progress. When I close 
the out-port in MID-OX the sys-ex dump is recieved as it ought to be. 
Gotta experiment(and read) some more


keep kazooin'
Ulf