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--- In AN1x-list@y..., "ventilator_sda" <lex@l...> wrote:
> Thanks, and yeah, this is all fine... but how to get the song data 
> back into the AN200? 
> 
> I'm impressed with how talkative my Yamaha stuff is, but as far as 
I 
> understand, the AN200 will only accept individual or total 
> pattern/voice data, or a bulk dump.
You can access each MIDI-channel (which you can freely assign each of 
the four AN200 tracks to) by an external sequencer and use the AN200 
in this way as a soundmodule, or to trigger patterns. But you are 
right you can´t send a whole song at once, what you would´ve to do is 
record with a sequencer the outgoing MIDI-data, while your AN200 is 
playing a song.

> 
> What I don't know (I'm no MIDI wizard) is whether I can get into 
that 
> bulk dump and rearrange song data on the desktop (somehow!) then 
load 
> it back into the AN200? 
No that doesn´t work, since the AN200 sequencer is very basic and not 
a full MIDI-sequencer like the one inside the RM1x/RS7000/QY700. 
It works internally with it´s own data-format. Unless you record the 
outgoing MIDI-data with a sequencer, WHILE the song/pattern is play 
you can´t edit a bulk-song-data dump. If you record your song on a 
sequencer, you can rearrange it on the sequencer and use the AN200 
then as a sound-module to play the rearranged song. Or as i already 
mentioned earlier, you can edit the pattern with the AN200-Editor and 
load them into the AN200 and then rearrange those to a new song.
Of course you can always edit sounds with the AN200-Editor or AN1x-
Edit and download or upload them to the AN200.
 
Tom