Emu XL-7 & MP-7 User's Group

The following site might be helpful. It has a simple navigation 
frame. Click on system exclusive. I think the explanations on this 
site are really geared toward novices, but impart real understanding.

http://www.borg.com/~jglatt/tech/midispec.htm

If you can handle charts as an explanatory mechanism, the following 
site may be helpful:

http://www.hinton.demon.co.uk/midi/midicode.html#msex

Good luck.

--Steve

--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "steve_the_composer" <smw-mail@p...> 
wrote:
> There are websites that cover sysex. There is one that I stumbled 
on 
> that I thought was pretty good in terms of explaining it to 
novices. I 
> will have to look to see if I still have the links.
> 

[snip]
 
> --- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "malik" <malik_martin@h...> wrote:
> > steve i have takena look at this and have been trying to figure 
out 
> a 
> > way to do it over the past week or so. even openbed a bok with a 
> > small section on sysex but i couldnt figure it out. and i diidnt 
> > understand what the emu sysex manual was trying to tell me. is 
> there  
> > a website orsomething that can explain it to a complete idiot? :)