Emu XL-7 & MP-7 User's Group

To "play" a midi file containing sysex bulk data [presets] using 
Windows XP, try the following:

1. Click: Start | Control Panel | Speech, Sounds, and Audio Devices
2. Click: Sounds and Audio Devices
3. Select the Audio Tab
4. In the MIDI section [MIDI music playback] select your midi out port.

This will cause any MIDI files played in Windows Media Player to go 
out the selected MIDI port. 

*** Be sure to change it back to your audio source when done--unless 
you want all midi files to play to you gear. ***

I just ran a test.  Even though I don't have the TCSY ROM, the method 
was successful for the P2500. Here's what I did after doings steps 1 - 
4 above:

5. Downloaded a sysex-patchbank-saved-as-mid file (saved it to the 
desktop).
6. Started Windows Media Player.
7. Dragged the sysex-patchbank-saved-as-mid file to WMP

The midi file played automatically and sent the preset data out the 
port I had selected in steps 1 - 4 above into the E-Mu,

Hope this helps.

--Steve

--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "steve_the_composer" <smw-mail@p...> wrote:
> A few years ago I tested using Windows media player (Win98SE) for 
> sending sysex data to gear.  This worked when the sysexdata 
> was "captured" as a sequence [that is, the sysex was recorded
> realtime in a running sequencer that captures sysex in banks].
> 
> (If that doesn't make sense, I apologize--I am tired.  WIll try 
again 
> another day.)
> 
> --Steve