Bc2000 (for the BCF2000 & BCR2000)

--- In bc2000@yahoogroups.com, "Rainer" <klorisk@...> wrote:
> Unfortunately, the file "Kawai K4_1.syx" does not seem to work properly, both in BC Manager and in BCR Edit it can't be imported, while the 2nd can be.
> 
> The BC Manager gives the following error when importing:
> Error: MIDI system exclusive error
> No Exclusive status
> 
> Could you perhaps check the file and perhaps re-export it from your setup, and re-upload it?

Since you mentioned BC Manager, I got curious, out of a sense of responsibility - just to check the error message wasn't caused by some kind of bug in BC Manager...

I found that what's wrong with the file is that the last 4 bytes ('end' plus F7) of the last SysEx message are inexplicably repeated:
F0 ... 65 6E 64 F7 65 6E 64 F7
So the second 'e' (65) occurs where a new SysEx message should start, i.e. where F0 is expected: this is what BC Manager means by "No Exclusive status".

So I'm a bit curious how this file was generated; was there a bug in the generating program?

In any case, it is very simple to fix this specific file: just remove the last four bytes.
You can use a generic hexadecimal editor for this.
Alternatively, you can use BC Manager's File -> Convert -> "Syx to txt/bc2" (from the main menu): BC Manager then produces an error message "Stream read error", but still creates the txt file correctly, which you can then simply open normally in BC Manager (and convert back to a syx file, if you wish).

Hope this helps,
Mark.