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Hello All, I guess I should apologise for any confusion that I may have
caused in all of this, sorry, but it would appear that I am partially
right and partially wrong.

I emailed Nick howes at yamaha direct about what was being asked, and
was told Yes basically to the questions that were asked.

I have since received a further email from Nick which you should all
take a look at, that should clear up some of the confusion.

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I think the SW list and yourself may have got the wrong end of the stick
on PLG bulking 

So let me set it straight

1: No SW1000XG can do any kind of request from any PLG board, there is
no sysex request path (this is in the FAQ I believe anyway) 2: PLG150
cards, don't support full bulks in the way you think. They support
parameter caching of the offset parameters for the easy editors only,
and store these in memory locations on the board or on the hosting
device in the case of Motif, CS6x etc. It is impossible to bulk request
the entire status of a PLG for user parameters and complex parameters
from any device. The boards are in the same way as SW, ONE WAY traffic
only really. Which for computer editing is not an issue...

Just so everyone is clear



Nick Howes

Computer Product Planning & Development
Yamaha R&D Centre
London
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Ok, I hope that clears some things up for you all.

But I think point 2 raises a good question for us all:

2: PLG150 cards, don't support full bulks in the way you think. They
support parameter caching of the offset parameters for the easy editors
only.

OK, so if the easy editors are able to retrieve this information, even
if it is only offset values, then somehow there must be a way to get
that data back to form that we can all read in the PC.

It might not be a full bulk request, but once the offsets are back in
the easy editors, then it should be easy enough to transmit them back
out as a dump, which will hopefully produce the required result.

See ya,

Reggie