Analogue-sequencer

>The only reason I can think of is if the sequencer is also putting out
>beat clock

I didn't mention having checked to be sure clock or anything else isn't being 
sent as well, since that troubleshooting step (I thought) is obvious. In 
fact, I switch Keyboard Thru off too when playing a file of sysex data, in case I 
put my elbow on my Expressionmate or something  :-)

>But since you suggest that *increasing* the tempo makes things more
>reliable, this is probably a red herring

Having lengthened the play time of the file, I readjusted the tempo back 
toward a reasonable pace to avoid sitting there all day.

I figured this out a while back when everybody in one of the Novation user 
groups was crying about their rack synth update not going well. I forget the 
number of strings, but it occurred to me to move each string in the event list to 
a barline, starting with the last and working backward so as not to disrupt 
the original ordering. So, there were the same number of bars as strings. Saved 
and played in at 120 BPM, it worked fine.

>Tracks within midi files can count time between events in two ways - clock
>ticks based on tempo, or linear time frames.
>If a track containing the sysex data is written using linear time, changing
>the tempo wont increase the delay between blocks.

So I learned sort of backwards that sysex events have to be time-stamped in 
relation to beats before tempo changes make any difference. Possibly some sets 
of sysex data have simply been saved as a sequential list and turned into a 
midifile, which is too much to transmit without breaks.

>So I was thinking of just uploading midi files, unless it causes anyone
>problems.

I'm another .syx-file-preferring person, Colin, but if you have to make a 
file conversion anyway, you might put both .syx and .mid files in a folder, and 
zip and upload that, which I've seen done by other manufacturers. 


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> I didn't mention having checked to be sure clock or anything else isn't being 
> sent as well, since that troubleshooting step (I thought) is obvious.

Oh, it is, and I knew you'd have thought of it Amanda, but I thought
it worth mentioning anyway...

	-- N.

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