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Hi,

The AN1x MID files I have seen are MIDI sequences with embedded SYSEX
voice dumps in them, which means they can be sent to the AN1x by any
sequencer or ever Windows Media Player.

The only sure fire way of checking to see if if a SYSEX dump is for
the AN1x is to look inside the file with a hex editor and check that
the SYSEX ID numbers match those for "Yamaha" and "AN1x".

I've never heard of a MIDI virus before or anybody trying to damage to
your system by maybe, for example, setting parameters to something
that will fry your speakers. The SYSEX is patch data not executable code. 

In all the years I've spent downloading other patch collections, I've
never had a problem.

Cheers
Derek


--- In AN1x-list@yahoogroups.com, "Ed Edwards" <gleobeam@...> wrote:
>
> There¡¯s something conceptually confusing me here¡¦
> 
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> 
> MIDI is the code system for transmitting musical notes and the other
> associated parameters needed to create songs.  (Note tone (low, high),
> length, rests, velocities (mp, p, ff, etc.), dynamics (cresendos,
> decreshendos), and a few other fancies to help provide expression (hold
> pedal, pitch bend and mod wheels, and as does the AN1x, knobs,
ribbons and
> fader pedals).  It is meant to make music (or maybe we could say songs).
> 
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> 
> Voices, also known as Patches are the parameters that make one
instrument
> sound different than another.  Low or high registers, sound created from
> reed, brass, struck string, hammered string, plucked string, how
long the
> string is, what the string is made of, the type of wood it¡¯s
mounted to¡¦
> these are the things that make a voice.
> 
>  
> 
> I do realize that some synthesizers are able to save patch data as MIDI,
> but this data would be in the system exclusive format¡¦ commonly
known as
> sysex.  Now if you¡¯d said, I found tons of free voices in sysex on the
> net, I¡¯d have 2 questions.  First are they created for the AN1x? 
If so,
> good, then we can use MIDIOX or a program like it to dump them back into
> the AN1x to try them.  My second question would be how do you know
they¡¯re
> created for the AN1x?  Not to be a party poop, but if someone wanted
to be
> really nasty, they could write sysex data that might not be healthy for
> your little pet to be chewing on.
> 
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> 
> Look in the files section of our Yamaha group.  There¡¯s lots of
excellent
> patches there, almost all have been checked by me (because I¡¯m a
geek like
> that) and most of them are from the excellent AN1xEdit program.
> 
>  
> 
> HTH
> 
>  
> 
> Ed©÷  ¨þ¡Æ K * 13 ¡í AN2x?
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> From: AN1x-list@yahoogroups.com [mailto:AN1x-list@yahoogroups.com] On
> Behalf Of Luc Hogie
> Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 8:53 AM
> To: AN1x-list@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [AN1x] Convert MIDIfile to AN1
> 
>  
> 
> I found tons of free voices on the net, in the form of
> midifiles. I want to load those files into An1xedit
> but this software apparently does not provide any
> "import midi" feature. Is there a way to load the
> sysex into an1xedit other than transmitting to the
> an1x (using any midi player) and then sending
> all voice data back to the computer (to an1xedit)???
> 
> Thanks,
> Luc.
> 
> -- 
> Luc Hogie - IT Researcher @ INRIA Sophia Antipolis
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