Casio CZ/ VZ/ FZ - Pro Series

I haven't had any luck with Jsynth myself (and truthfully haven't spent much
time at all on the problem) but believe it requires java to be installed in
order to run. So, have you installed java?

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Lee Borrell <templarser@...>wrote:

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> Could you give me a clue as to how to use this thing?
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> The docs say to tag a shortcut to Jsynth.jar - but no such file exists.
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> Half the files are not registered - and I presume I need to install
> something else in order to run it. It is exactly because of this type of
> format that I do not use "open source" or what I call "comes in bits"
> programs.
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> All I want is a simple EXE that runs as soon as you double click. It was
> due to Vbasic's capacity to create  "comes in bits" programs that they
> failed to work when I transported them between OS or even between machines
> with the same platforms.
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> I am guessing that Jsynth is incompatible with WIN98 and seeing as all my
> synths are tied to a 98 machine that makes things kind of awkward. Although
> I have a MIDI compatible XP machine - Jsynth doesn't seem to be just a
> matter of starting it up. Anyone who creates programs that require from me
> more than a double click to get it running are failing in their task to
> create a good program.
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> Any clues?
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> --- On Wed, 14/10/09, korgpolyex800 <korgpolyex800@...<korgpolyex800%40yahoo.com>>
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> From: korgpolyex800 <korgpolyex800@... <korgpolyex800%40yahoo.com>>
> Subject: [CZsynth] Re: sysex editor
> To: CZsynth@yahoogroups.com <CZsynth%40yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Wednesday, 14 October, 2009, 19:59
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> I think you should consider developing a driver for JsynthLib which is an
> open source project to provide librarian and patch editing functions for ANY
> synth that has MIDI/sysex.
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> I designed/created/ sell the hardware/software upgrade for the Korg
> Poly-800 (www.hawk800. com) and I now have a librarian/patch editor working
> for my upgrade kit based on JsynthLib. It's not quite ready for release yet
> so it's not posted on the web site - yet.
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> Writing the code for the driver was hard going at first because JsynthLib
> is based on Java and I had not written any Java for some years. But now that
> I've gone through the pain of that, I am enjoying adding the editing
> functions to the code. All of the slider, knobs, switches, etc that you
> would have to create in a purpose built program are already implemented as
> widgets so with JsynthLib you just have to focus on the sysex code for each
> synth. Getting basic librarian patch save/load functions is really quite
> easy.
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> I would imagine that creating a librarian for any CZ would be relatively
> easy and the editor wouldn't be too hard after that.
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> Since JsynthLib is Java based, it runs on any platform. That's a very nice
> thing.
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> Mike.
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> --- In CZsynth@yahoogroups .com, Lee Borrell <templarser@ ...> wrote:
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> > In theory- you can edit a CZ file with MIDI-ox but it is perhaps not the
> recommended route - I can't recall if CZ's operate a checksum - but if they
> did it means calculating it manually - and even if they do not - then
> editing individual bytes is possible - but it means referring to the byte
> map ( I have it online but the site seems to be down for some reason) - this
> is why Charles and myself have been trying to find a way to do an editor.
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> > There are a couple of options - use a retro emulator such as STEEM to
> mimic and old machine that has an editor.
> > Get an editor that runs on your system.
> > Write your own editor.
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> > Obviously the preferred one is the 2nd one - unless someone has already
> done it- then it means learning one of the PC languages such as VB or C etc
> etc.
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> > I guess most musos are after a plug and play option - and exe file that
> allows sysx transfer and editing - to date I have not found a viable one
> that has not got bugs. Which is why I was planning on writing my own - I
> have got as far as transferring the internal memory of a DX100 to a
> commodore machine and breaking down the CZ sysx code to begin planning a
> program - either way - that is not for the PC - I believe there was a
> program called UNISYN which Bernard was working on -not sure where that is
> at.
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> > I can send anyone the programs I have which are PC-based for the CZ - I
> think one is DOS based - and the other runs in windows - I have not used it
> extensively to say if it is any good. I am pretty sure I got it from the
> files section of this forum.
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> > --- On Wed, 14/10/09, steve_the_composer <smw-mail@.. .> wrote:
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> > From: steve_the_composer <smw-mail@.. .>
> > Subject: [CZsynth] Re: sysex editor
> > To: CZsynth@yahoogroups .com
> > Date: Wednesday, 14 October, 2009, 2:15 AM
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> > What do you want to do? If you just want to edit a sysex dump, I think
> you could use midi-ox. --Steve
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