Elektron Musical Instruments

Sorry, I found what I was looking for ; looking for the first byte to be zero 
looks enough to decide it is an 'extented' manufacturer id

( http://www.midi.org/about-mma/mfgid.htm )

Thanks

>===== Original Message From elektron-users@egroups.com =====
>Thanks Daniel,
>
>So it means that if you want to be generic when writing programs you have to
>sniff for six or four bytes... but is there a way to detect which of the two
>format is used when looking at a sysex file ?
>
>>===== Original Message From Daniel Hansson <daniel@...> =====
>>On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, georgesv wrote:
>>
>>> I am surprised the sysex header data for the SID is 6 bytes .. is that 
rigt
>?
>>> Most other synth I know of use only four:
>>>
>>> $F0
>>> ManufacturerID
>>> UnitID
>>> ModelID
>>>
>>> Why do different ? Or Am I wrong ?
>>
>>Check page 39 of the SidStation users manual. There you will find the init
>>specified.
>>
>>New companies in Europe and USA applying for a SYSEX manufacturers ID get
>>a 3-byte sequence. Japanese companies still get 1-byte ID's - which the
>>old synthesizer developers still have.
>>
>> //Daniel
>>
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