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

Hope you can get it resolved. BTW do you have an "old-fashioned" 
sound card with a joystick port in your system? If so, perhaps you 
could use it (with a midi/joystick cable which are dirt cheap now.

Sysex and midi were pretty straight forward pre-windows, and while 
Windows makes everything else possible, there is so much overhead 
that G-d knows what's happening to the byte-by-byte midi stream.

Anyhow, it sounds like you need to do some serious diagnosis, 
starting with the simplest possible midi flow and the simplest 
possible tests. (eg, get a setup so you can send one preset to the 
computer and receive one preset from the computer.)

To test sending and receiving you could try midi-ox or even e-
loader's midi monitor. In fact, try it with patterns and e-loader.  
Can you successfully get the names of a bank of patterns?  If so, 
sysex is working. If not, you've got a problem from the get go.  Can 
you download and upload patterns in e-loader? If you can, sysex is 
working. If not, you gotta work on the basics.

In using e-loader, when you scan for midi devices, does the e-mu 
show up (using the midi connection, not the usb host connection]?

Of course, if the windows media player thing will work off the bat, 
or if trying a different interface will work, great!!!

Good luck.

--Steve

Hmmmm. Just an afterthought--try some different cables.  Every so 
often I've gotten a cable that seems to work at least 99% of the 
time, but is 1% defective for some reason. 
 

--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "eriksatie01" <waveplayer@t...> wrote:
> I have the same feeling that could be something about the midi 
> interface. I will try to disconnect eveything off from usb.
> but what do you mean with "send the sysex one chunk at a time from 
> sounddiver"?
> how can you send midi directly from the sounddriver? how do you 
> divide the chunks?
> 
> this evening I will try also with mediaplayer, and I think I will 
> check if there is some update for the drivers
> 
> thx to everybody for the help!
> 
> davide
> 
> --- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, daxe <snakefooot@y...> wrote:
> > 
> > I dont know if any of this will help you, but I had a terrible 
time 
> getting my Ensoniq FIZMO to take an OS update through my gear and 
> this is what I did:
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > I tried another midi interface..this one hooked up through USB.  
> The first interface I used was through my JLCooper MSB REv2+, 
which 
> mangles everything sent through it.  I tried an Edirol UMX thing 
> next.  I tried a bunch of programs but always got only a partial 
> upload.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > I had a little better luck when I removed everything else off 
that 
> USB bus...it got almost all the way through but the data was still 
> coming too fast.  FIZMOs are notorious for chiking on too-fast 
midi 
> data (as well as bad voltage regulators).
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > What I finally had to do was send the sysex one chunk at a time 
> from sounddiver.  The combo of this method, plus the USB interface 
> not being 'interrupted' by other things on the same bus allowed me 
to 
> get the sysex finally uploaded.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Some devices are crankier about the integrity of the midi data 
than 
> some others, I guess.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Hope this helps, maybe give you some ideas.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > ~snakefooot
> > 
> >  
> > 
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