The Yamaha AN1x Synthesizer mailing list

Mango is absolutely correct - there's no mystery to using a .mid 
file. All modern software sequencers - and many hardware sequencers - 
are compatible with standard MIDI files. Just use the Open... or 
Import... command in your software sequencer to open the file and hit 
'Play'. You may need to double check the track assignment in your 
sequencer is set for your AN1x. If you experience any glitch 
transmitting to your AN1x then you may find it necessary to slow down 
the tempo of your sequencer during playback of the .mid file. AN1x 
SysEx files can be very large. Indeed, it is not impossible to 
overrun the AN1x buffer resulting in garbage data being received, 
i.e., random patch generation of a most unpleasant sort ;-)

And you know - once you have the .mid data loaded into your AN1x you 
can always resave it in AN1xEdit as a .an1 if that's what you 
prefer...

regards,
Jon

p.s. - that sound bank which started this thread is made up of files 
that have been available from Yamaha for quite some time now - a good 
selection all in all :-)


--- In AN1x-list@egroups.com, mango <j.kolling@c...> wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I've never done it before with the AN1x, only with another synth, 
and what i did then
> was just turn the synth on and load the .mid file in Cakewalk or 
Cubase, i don't know if this was just luck or not, but it loaded the 
patches in the synth. :]
> By the way, back up your existing patches before you do this, i 
didn't, and i lost some favourite patches.
> 
> 
> > Hey Mango
> >
> > Thanx for the link! But how do you send *.mid patches to your 
AN1X? I'm just used to using the incredibly magnificent program 
AN1XEdit which uses *.an* kind of files...