Bc2000 (for the BCF2000 & BCR2000)

The BCR2000 does support the notion of "custom output" for controls where you may find a solution to your needs. Use the venerable BC Manager software to monkey around with this feature.




On Wednesday, November 13, 2013 1:43 PM, Brent Busby <brent@...> wrote:
 
  
Is it possible to stack more than one Midi instruction on a single 
button press, such as a series of CC's and sysex strings?

What I'm wanting to do is probably not possible, but here it is:

I have a Siel DK600, which is an 80's analog synth with horrible Midi 
(but great filters!).  There is no way to dump an entire bank of patches 
to it at once.  In fact, even just preparing it to receive one patch 
requires sending a CC code first, so if you wanted to dump a whole bank 
of 90 patches, you'd have to send "CC, sysex patch, CC, sysex patch, CC, 
sysex patch, ...etc".

A strung together file containing all of that for a 90-patch dump comes 
to about 4k.  For reasons that are long and boring to explain, what I'd 
like to do is make it so when I hit a button on the BCR2000, it dumps 
the whole 4k string of CC/sysex/CC/sysex/... out to the Siel.

Unfortunately, it looks like the only way to put sysex code into the BCR 
is in Learn mode, and when doing that, it considers itself finished 
after the first command it sees reaches completion.  So, if I send this 
4k long string to the BCR in Learn mode, it figures it's done after it 
gets the first CC, and ignores the reset.  Consequently, the button ends 
up emitting a string only 3 bytes long consisting of a single CC and 
nothing more.

Is there a way to get an arbitrary string of code entered, possibly 
using a computer editor like BCedit?  4k is long, but it doesn't seem so 
long that it's necessarily impossible, so I just thought I'd ask.

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