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Sysex questions

Sysex questions

2002-07-02 by Nick Rothwell

A couple of quick sysex questions (aimed mainly at the E-mu folx, I
guess...):

- What's the ROM ID in the Preset Dump Request and the Preset Dump
  Header? I can request and/or reload any of the user presets (0..127
  in banks 0..3) using a coded preset number between 0 and 511, but
  the ROM ID seems to be ignored. Ditto when requesting preset
  names.

  (I'm asking mainly for curiosity, since I only want to backup,
  organise and restore user presets, and that seems to work fine
  already.)

- How can I request, move and restore patterns? Given that I've got
  the code for transferring presets, I'd quite like to use the same
  for the patterns, keeping the information in one place, rather than
  use the rather cumbersome Java app. The Java app. can clearly do
  this stuff over MIDI, so I guess I could just try and
  reverse-engineer that, but it would be healthier not to have to. I
  don't actually care about the internal format of the pattern data
  (other than the source/destination slot), but just want to be able
  to checksum and store it.

	-- Nick.

-- 

  nick rothwell -- composition, systems, performance -- http://www.cassiel.com

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