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Subject: Re: MIDI Interfaces - avoid USB?

From: "Bruce Wahler" <bruce@...>
Date: 2001-02-16

> "Gary Gregson" <gary@y...> wrote {snipped}:
>
> The An1x uses big sysex packets for transferring patch data and is
very
> sensitive to the packet timing. Consequently it tends to show up
problems in
> USB interfaces:-(
>
> Perhaps if people with working USB interfaces (that can reliably
bulk dump
> AN1x data to/form the computer) would care to post a message...then
we could
> weed out the good ones from the bad.

Hello. I'm a new member of the list, but I've been a user of the
AN1x for almost two years, all of it with AN1xEdit (v1.02, then V1.1).

FWIW, I've had good results with the Midiman MIDISport 8x8USB in
Win98SE over the past 4-5 months. I had a bit of the overrun issues
with the original drivers, but since I upgraded to v1.04, I have had
exactly one problem -- and in that resulted in a very short
(<100K) "full" SysEx dump of the AN1x, accompanied by a lockup of
Windows, so I'm not sure that it wasn't an Windows glitch.

While we're on the subject of SysEx, is there any remote command to
initiate a complete dump of the AN1x (260391 bytes)? After reading
through the SysEx literature and playing around, I've come to the
conclusion that you can only a) initiate the dump from the synth, or
b) step through each of the patches and sequences by name (or using
the current program commands, and then incrementing the patch
count). Am I missing something?

Regards,

-BW

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