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Re: mid to sysex files

Re: mid to sysex files

2003-08-10 by River of Life

I asked this before but got no replies. Here it is again:

How do I convert the .mid files to sysex files.

Vince

At 12:20 PM 8/6/03 +0000, you wrote:
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RE: [Ensoniq-VFX-SD] Re: mid to sysex files

2003-08-10 by hans-artmann@t-online.de

Look some postings back. There were several ones dealing with this. Short
answer: Read the .mid into a sequencer program that can deal with sysex,
e.g. Cakewalk. From there you can write the sysex files.

Hans
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Sent: Sonntag, 10. August 2003 20:22
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Subject: [Ensoniq-VFX-SD] Re: mid to sysex files


I asked this before but got no replies. Here it is again:

How do I convert the .mid files to sysex files.

Vince

At 12:20 PM 8/6/03 +0000, you wrote:

>Sorry I don't have a link to the files - I've not put 'em anywhere
>else, just go to "files" on this group and there they be (well the
>first 18 so far anyway) - the rest will follow.
>
>The universe will pay me back for my good deed I'm sure  \8o)
>
>have fun
>
>Roger
>
>
>
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Re: [Ensoniq-VFX-SD] Re: mid to sysex files

2003-08-11 by Mike Nelson

I think it needs to be thrown back into the court of
the person sending the files. The problem is that
despite the common file extension *.mid, various soft
and hard sequencers encode the data in different ways.
Some take the pure sysex and insert its own bytes here
and there, and some make it totally unrecognizable,
not a F0 or F7 to be seen. Not that I'm cheap (GAH!)
but I don't want to buy eveybody's brand of soft seq
to have on my computer all at once, just to be able to
trade files. Sysex utilities can be had free (eg
MIDI-OX), they're reasonable to use and the result is
something all users (with sysex utilities) can access,
which was the idea, I thought. I run into this with
other groups of machine users, and I wish you'd all
consider my .02  . All done now. Breathe.

Thanks
the manicmaestro 
--- River of Life <river@...> wrote:
> I asked this before but got no replies. Here it is
> again:
> 
> How do I convert the .mid files to sysex files.
> 
> Vince
> 
> At 12:20 PM 8/6/03 +0000, you wrote:
> 
> >Sorry I don't have a link to the files - I've not
> put 'em anywhere
> >else, just go to "files" on this group and there
> they be (well the
> >first 18 so far anyway) - the rest will follow.
> >
> >The universe will pay me back for my good deed I'm
> sure  \8o)
> >
> >have fun
> >
> >Roger
> >
> >
> >
> >To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
> >Ensoniq-VFX-SD-unsubscribe@egroups.com
> >
> >
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Re: [Ensoniq-VFX-SD] Re: mid to sysex files

2003-08-12 by Mike Nelson

Ok, I know it's bad form to reply to one's own post, but if people want a
standard platform to trade and find a sysex editor a little too bare, what
about SoundLib or its cousin vfxlib? I think they're from the same author.

Pluses:
 you can send banks in and out and see the program names. A sysex editor
won't be able to display the names because the data aside from header and
footer is nybblized; ie one byte 46 becomes two bytes 04 06.

you can build new banks fairly easily from your faves of other banks.

While the saved files are proprietary, not exactly sysex, they are saved
under the SoundLib or vfxlib directory, so no forgetting where on your multi
gig hard drive you put them.

Hoping to keep flame temp down,please,
the manicmaestro
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From: "Mike Nelson" <manicmaestro@...>
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Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 4:51 PM
Subject: Re: [Ensoniq-VFX-SD] Re: mid to sysex files


> I think it needs to be thrown back into the court of
> the person sending the files. The problem is that
> despite the common file extension *.mid, various soft
> and hard sequencers encode the data in different ways.
> Some take the pure sysex and insert its own bytes here
> and there, and some make it totally unrecognizable,
> not a F0 or F7 to be seen. Not that I'm cheap (GAH!)
> but I don't want to buy eveybody's brand of soft seq
> to have on my computer all at once, just to be able to
> trade files. Sysex utilities can be had free (eg
> MIDI-OX), they're reasonable to use and the result is
> something all users (with sysex utilities) can access,
> which was the idea, I thought. I run into this with
> other groups of machine users, and I wish you'd all
> consider my .02  . All done now. Breathe.
>
> Thanks
> the manicmaestro
> --- River of Life <river@...> wrote:
> > I asked this before but got no replies. Here it is
> > again:
> >
> > How do I convert the .mid files to sysex files.
> >
> > Vince
> >
> > At 12:20 PM 8/6/03 +0000, you wrote:
> >
> > >Sorry I don't have a link to the files - I've not
> > put 'em anywhere
> > >else, just go to "files" on this group and there
> > they be (well the
> > >first 18 so far anyway) - the rest will follow.
> > >
> > >The universe will pay me back for my good deed I'm
> > sure  \8o)
> > >
> > >have fun
> > >
> > >Roger
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
> > >Ensoniq-VFX-SD-unsubscribe@egroups.com
> > >
> > >
> > >
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> > http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
> >
> >
>
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