The Yamaha AN1x Synthesizer mailing list

Hi, 

I don't understand why you would want to reverse engineer the SYSEX format that AN1xEdit would be using, when it is defined in the AN1x Data List Manual! :-)


Cheers
Derek

--- In AN1x-list@yahoogroups.com, Juan Pablo Cuervo <audioprof2001@...> wrote:
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> SysEx reverse eng. is very easy...
> Â 
> Install MidiOX, MIDIYoke, AN Expert Editor or XGWorks with AN Editor plugin,
> PlayOnMac if OSX.
> done.
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> On Wednesday, October 23, 2013 12:20 PM, Sean King <skseanking1@...> wrote:
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> Yeah I had feeling it was Yamaha's fault...  lets all complain to them!    I do understand why they would have no interest in making an editor available on osx for a synth that came out in 1997.  But come on...  im sure a lot of an1x owners would use it.  
> On Oct 23, 2013 12:54 PM, "Peter Korsten" <peter@...> wrote:
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> >Sean King schreef op 22-10-2013 21:33:
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> >its really silly there is no mac�osx�an1xeditor and it is only for ppc... �it cant�be that hard to port to mac�osx�and its a shame that whoever made the program won't�just fork over the source code.... if the source code could be available somehow, that'd be great.
> >>
> >It might be silly, but there's a good reason for it. Gary Gregson
>     was contracted by Yamaha to write the editor for Windows and MacOS.
>     At the time, there was no OS X, and there certainly weren't any
>     Intel-based Macs (except perhaps in Cupertino).
> >
> >The rights of the source code reside with Yamaha, so Gary can't
>     publish them. He presumably also can't go and rewrite it for OS X
>     and Intel, apart from the fact that Yamaha wouldn't pay for this
>     port.
> >
> >So: complain to Yamaha. They're the ones that are sitting on the
>     source code and not doing anything with it.
> >
> >- Peter
> >
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