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

On Mon, 21 Apr 2008, Aaron Eppolito wrote:

> So, the hidden parameters aren't supposed to be set via sysex.  The XL-7 
> just happens to use a system where every parameter in the box is 
> numbered, even if they're not publicly accessible or stored.  The fact 
> that you can set them via sysex is arguably a bug!
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i'd call it an undocumented feature ;)


> You've already seen one example of having to do some strange 
> convolutions to get a simple thing done - and that's one of the simpler 
> ones!
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well, when you release an OS-3 for it, my first feature request is a MIDI 
mode that will reserve a channel to listen for system messages, and 
interpret LSB/PC messages as pattern changes ;)


> PS. Very good work on the message concatenation!  I figured that with 
> all parameter set messages you might be able to do it, but I wasn't sure 
> if the code would work for arbitrary messages instead of dumps.  I'm 
> glad to see it works!
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as soon as i saw the hidden parameters that started with 0x01 i was 
confident, based on my reading of the sysex, that it would work. i would 
have been surprised if it didn't work in short form.


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