Re: [Ensoniq-VFX-SD] Digest Number 356
2003-08-13 by Nathan I Smutz
I think you can save sysex banks if you want to. Make a joyful noise, Nathan > Subject: Re: Re: mid to sysex files > > Ok, I know it's bad form to reply to one's own post, but if people > want a > standard platform to trade and find a sysex editor a little too > bare, what > about SoundLib or its cousin vfxlib? I think they're from the same > author. > > Pluses: > you can send banks in and out and see the program names. A sysex > editor > won't be able to display the names because the data aside from > header and > footer is nybblized; ie one byte 46 becomes two bytes 04 06. > > you can build new banks fairly easily from your faves of other > banks. > > While the saved files are proprietary, not exactly sysex, they are > saved > under the SoundLib or vfxlib directory, so no forgetting where on > your multi > gig hard drive you put them. > > Hoping to keep flame temp down,please, > the manicmaestro > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mike Nelson" <manicmaestro@...> > To: <Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com> > Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 4:51 PM > Subject: Re: [Ensoniq-VFX-SD] Re: mid to sysex files > > > > I think it needs to be thrown back into the court of > > the person sending the files. The problem is that > > despite the common file extension *.mid, various soft > > and hard sequencers encode the data in different ways. > > Some take the pure sysex and insert its own bytes here > > and there, and some make it totally unrecognizable, > > not a F0 or F7 to be seen. Not that I'm cheap (GAH!) > > but I don't want to buy eveybody's brand of soft seq > > to have on my computer all at once, just to be able to > > trade files. Sysex utilities can be had free (eg > > MIDI-OX), they're reasonable to use and the result is > > something all users (with sysex utilities) can access, > > which was the idea, I thought. I run into this with > > other groups of machine users, and I wish you'd all > > consider my .02 . All done now. Breathe. > > > > Thanks > > the manicmaestro > > --- River of Life <river@...> wrote: > > > I asked this before but got no replies. Here it is > > > again: > > > > > > How do I convert the .mid files to sysex files. > > > > > > Vince > > > > > > At 12:20 PM 8/6/03 +0000, you wrote: > > > > > > >Sorry I don't have a link to the files - I've not > > > put 'em anywhere > > > >else, just go to "files" on this group and there > > > they be (well the > > > >first 18 so far anyway) - the rest will follow. > > > > > > > >The universe will pay me back for my good deed I'm > > > sure \8o) > > > > > > > >have fun > > > > > > > >Roger > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > > > >Ensoniq-VFX-SD-unsubscribe@egroups.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to > > > http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. > > http://search.yahoo.com > > > > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > > Ensoniq-VFX-SD-unsubscribe@egroups.com > > > > > > > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to > http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > > > > > > > > > > ------ http://USFamily.Net/info - Unlimited Internet - From > $8.99/mo! ------ > > > > ________________________________________________________________________ > ________________________________________________________________________ > > > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to > http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry? -Jesus ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today!