Elektron Musical Instruments

Thanks Daniel,

So it means that if you want to be generic when writing programs you have to 
sniff for six or four bytes... but is there a way to detect which of the two 
format is used when looking at a sysex file ?

>===== Original Message From Daniel Hansson <daniel@...> =====
>On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, georgesv wrote:
>
>> I am surprised the sysex header data for the SID is 6 bytes .. is that rigt 
?
>> Most other synth I know of use only four:
>>
>> $F0
>> ManufacturerID
>> UnitID
>> ModelID
>>
>> Why do different ? Or Am I wrong ?
>
>Check page 39 of the SidStation users manual. There you will find the init
>specified.
>
>New companies in Europe and USA applying for a SYSEX manufacturers ID get
>a 3-byte sequence. Japanese companies still get 1-byte ID's - which the
>old synthesizer developers still have.
>
> //Daniel
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