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

--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "steve_the_composer" <smw-mail@...> wrote:
>
> Just for the fun of it, I took a look at a *.mid file of a song with 
> nothing more than a couple of patterns strung together. Other than the 
> headers/timing/sysex/etc. stuff, it looks like the patterns and mutes 
> are text characters. (I downloaded a song using e-loader and looked at 
> it with Microsoft's built-in debug program.)
> 
> I didn't go further with dissecting the song file, but I suppose if 
> someone wanted to write a utility to chain patterns and set mutes they 
> could do it and then add additional functionality to it. (It sur would 
> be nice to be able to do this via usb.)
> 
> Out of curiosity, what kinds of song file data do you want to edit 
> extrnally? 
> 
> --Steve


(I'm glad somebody had a good answer.  Every time I see the subject
line in the message list, I'm tempted to reply, "Have you finished
your homework and cleaned your room?")