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--- In AN1x-list@yahoogroups.com, "fai31188" <fai31188@y...> wrote:
> Long time lurker, long time piano player, newbie with Analog and VA stuff.... 
> 
> I just bought my An1x a few weeks ago. I have been able to load some sounds onto my 
> board, but for the life of me I can't find a way to send the current voices to my computer 
to 
> store/save. I am running Tiger and use Digital Performer 4.6 as my sequencer. Is there a 
midi 
> librarian/editor that I can use in OSX to transfer voices back and forth from my 
computer?
> 
> TIA
> 
> aL

Hi aL,

You have a couple of options for OS X.

You could simply put DP into record mode and perform a bulk dump from the AN1x of a 
single voice, or many voices, and then save as a standard MIDI file (SMF) .MID

Or you could one of the freeware SysEx Librarians for OS X. 

There is one named SysEx Librarian from 
http://www.snoize.com/SysExLibrarian/

There is another simpy called MIDI Dump from
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/mpergand/applis/midi_dump/en/midi_dump.html

My preference is for SysEx Librarian.

You could run the freeware AN1xEdit editor/librarian under Classic. If you are running 
Panther and use a USB MIDI Interface with native drivers you can successfully use AN1xEdit 
to edit and store Voices. This will probably work under Tiger too, but it does not work 
under Jaguar. I've posted specifics on this topic to the list more than once. If you're 
interested, I'll try to find the specific thread(s) so I don't have to rewrite it ;-)

I've tried out the editor/lib from MIDIQuest, but never made the time for either beta 
releases of SoundDiver under OS X  - pretty sorry  considering I'm a Logic user :-P

HTH

Jon