Elektron Musical Instruments

On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Joeri Vankeirsbilck wrote:

[...]
> As for the midi dump problem: I also have a problem when dumping a SysEx
> file containing all patches. If I send one by one, then it's Ok, but when I
> send a complete bank, some of the sounds don't work. Could have been a bug
> with my Unitor8 as well though. I just installed a new OS into my Unitor and
> I'll try uploading a sound bank again soon.

I'm not sure about the SidStation, but some MIDI equipment will not be
able to take it if all the SysEx data is dumped at maximum speed.  Usually
software will let you pause for X milliseconds every Y bytes when doing a
SysEx dump.

The file I have made available (currently at
http://www.roguebard.com/sounds/SidStationPresets/SidStation_Presets_Rev1.mid)
is just a MIDI file encapsulating the SysEx dump available from Elektron's
site.

A *better* way to do it (and one that I've been meaning to do, but I've
just not gotten around to it yet) is to separate out the individual
patches in the dump by time (which I believe is how the patches are
separated in Klaus' MIDI-file patch dump) so that even if your sequencer
doesn't handle SysEx timing properly, it will still go through because
each individual patch dump is fairly small in size and less susceptible to
overloading the SidStation (if that is what is happening) because they'll
be sent over a period of time rather that in one fell swoop.

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