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Re: CZ Bank Dump

2011-07-26 by Mike

Thanks for the reply. That worked. If I figure out how to do the Bulk Dump I'll post it.

--- In CZsynth@yahoogroups.com, "Alfons Martinez" <alfons-martinez@...> wrote:
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> Hello Mike:
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> I have a CZ5000 and some time ago I tried to do the same, with no success.
> 
> Thanks to the good and detailed help from several people in the group, I
> managed to send sysex messages (with Midi-Ox) for dumping each patch
> (message F0 44 00 00 70 10 XX 70 31 F7, where XX is the patch number, range
> 20-3F).
> 
> The sysex obtained from that dump cannot be directly re-sent to the CZ5000
> to re-load the patch. It is necessary to change the value of the fifth hex
> value (from 30 to 20 XX, where XX is again the patch number).
> 
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> 
> Knowing this, the only thing I could achieve was to "concatenate" the 32
> individual sysex (1 for each patch) in a 4 big sysex (1 for each bank). This
> way, at least I can load into the CZ5000 (not save to computer) the complete
> banks in one operation.
> 
> It is basically a question of copy&paste, but it worked for me. Of course,
> if you change one patch in the CZ5000, you have to save it and copy&paste
> again in its correponding the "big sysex".
> 
> It is not nice, but I just really wanted a backup dump, as I am not
> programming new sounds normally.
> 
> I did the tedious copy&paste operation directly with Midi-Ox, that probably
> is not the better program for that, but I do not know too much about editing
> sysex files.
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> 
> Hope it helps a little.
> 
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> 
> Alfons
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>   _____  
> 
> De: CZsynth@yahoogroups.com [mailto:CZsynth@yahoogroups.com] En nombre de
> Mike
> Enviado el: martes, 26 de julio de 2011 14:51
> Para: CZsynth@yahoogroups.com
> Asunto: [CZsynth] CZ Bank Dump
> 
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> Hello all, I have a CZ-3000 and I wanted to know if I can dump the whole
> bank instead of single patches. Is there a SYSex command that would allow me
> to dump the whole sound bank and not just a single patch?
> Thanks in advance
> Mike
> 
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