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Thoughts from the mind of Kool Musick, 19-04-2001:

>I have really nothing to add to Hendrik's post except that -- it really is
>a lot easier if you either use a spreadsheet or else a table.

Yeah, clever idea.

>Hendrik has already explained everything to you better than I could:

:-)  Thanks for the compliment, although I doubt if it's true.

>But although it was kind of Hendrik to explain to you how to do those
>hexadecimal calculations, you don't actually need to do any!!

You're right in that Logic lets you enter values in decimal -- I 
simply hadn't thought of that, since when it comes to sysex I seem to 
adopt a sort of hex mindset :-).
However, many synth manuals give the information on hex also, so in 
those cases it's convenient to be able to work with that kind of 
representation.  From his original message I thought I could conclude 
that his manual mixed decimal and hex notation (as my M1 manual 
does), and hence I thought it might handy to explain hex a bit.  But 
maybe I read something that wasn't there -- entirely possible :-).

>One instant decimal to hexadecimal converter. Tedious but it works. There's
>also a converter in MIDI-OX.

And, following up on your spreadsheet idea, you could use Excel to do 
the conversion -- so you could make one column with all numbers from 
0-127, and then copy/paste the column to the next and let it be 
displayed in hex.  In order to do so, pick "Add-ins" from the Tools 
menu, enable "Analysis ToolPak", and then use the "DEC2HEX" function 
to convert decimal to hex.  So type e.g. '127' in cell A1, and in B1 
enter "=DEC2HEX(A1)".  That's all.


cheers,
HJ
-- 
     Hendrik Jan Veenstra    ( h@... )