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

The version I have been working on is 0.004. I have not uploaded it anywhere yet. I came back to it after Sika in the P2K tried to convert the PK6 presets for use with the CMPSR ROM. There were problems with his algorithm, so I decided to work on the ROM_ID conversion routines in Syxer. (This was in August.) I understand that Sika wrote a CS routine, but I really didn't have much time, so I just used "ignore checksum"--not the best way to do it, but its quick and it works. (I haven't seen Sika's program or algorithm, so I am not sure what the problem was.)

0.004 is still a console type application, but the new functionality is not built into the command line handler. (Why waste the time? It does what I want as a console app!)

The target ROM_ID might still be hard coded, though I seem to remember working on a keypress that would allow users to select a destination ROM_ID. I will have to pull it out this weekend and see where I was with that. (No sense posting a version where users cannot set the target ID!)

The version of 0.004 I have on this PC uses "I" to convert all ROM_IDs in the bank that's loaded. I believe version 0.004 on another PC uses "T" to set the target ROM_ID. (The other one also sets the arp pattern ROM_IDs to 0.) 

I'll try to look at it this weekend and see if its ready to upload, such as it is.

Now that I think about it, I may have had the idea to allow users to toggle between (1) changing all ROM_IDs to the Destination ID and (2) changing everything except the arp patterns to the Detination ID and setting the arp patterns to ROM_ID = 0.

Actually, I think that's where I left off.

The version I have in front of me saves the converted bank as OUTPUT.SYX, so each conversion has to be renamed. The newer version has a naming scheme I was working on--something like ' appended to the source filename. (User 0-0.syx becomes User 0-0'.syx.)

It still lists the names of the presets in a bank (like 0.003) and still shows the preset data in hex on a packet by packet basis.

I seem to recall adding more lines at the bottom of the hex display possibly to identify the ROM_ID there as well.

Thanks for mentioning 0.003. Its helping me to remember where I was with 0.004. Who knows, maybe I will have a somewhat user-friendly version this weekend or next.

BTW, it does no range-checking whatsoever!!!!!!!

So if someone has a bank for a ROM with 1713 ROM Instruments and converts it for a ROM with 58 ROM Instruments, most of the presets will not work.  I have given thought to what would go into the range checking routines, but in order to implement it, I'd need people to supply acceptable ranges for each ROM.

Your workaround is also a good one. I did something like that with SONAR to get XL-7 patterns to play on an XLEAD ROM. I did that on a track-by-track basis, though. I like the one click approach, but I am not sure if I could have done it that way. 

Come to think of it, maybe that's what gave me the idea of changing to sysex banks themselves.

--Steve 



--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, Elektrofunkenstein <elektrofunkenstein@...> wrote:
>
> I made a workaround to this with pure phatt rom and patterns from MP-7 by
> importing them to Ableton Live. I only changed bank number by selecting all
> clips, just with a single click. But you need to use Live as a master that
> controls CS.
> 
> Steve, what is the newest version of Syxer? I have 0.003 version that don't
> have the functionality you mensioned. I want to change ID's from MK-6
> presets, the 5th bank to make it play on Pure Phatt rom. I didn't find this
> conversion anywhere. Where can I download the newest one?
> 
> Mariusz_ot
> 
> On 15 September 2010 22:09, steve_the_composer <smw-mail@...> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > The two should have the same ROM Instruments in the same numerical order,
> > but the ROM_ID to those instruments is different. Its alot quicker to change
> > them all at once in a bank of 128 presets with software than to do it by
> > hand. But you can change the necessary ROM IDs by hand, if you really want
> > to. (Well, not you, but someone without the P2500 ROM.)
> >
> > --Steve
> >
> >
> > --- In xl7@yahoogroups.com <xl7%40yahoogroups.com>, Elektrofunkenstein
> > <elektrofunkenstein@> wrote:
> > >
> > > hey,
> > > they work with my command station, but I have pop rom from Proteus 2500
> > > (PROM1 ) installed which has the same sounds as composer rom but totally
> > > different presets location. You need to ask people who did conversions
> > for
> > > help.
> > >
> > > good luck!
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On 15 September 2010 12:47, laszlozizics <fantahs@> wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Hello all,
> > > >
> > > > i get my Composer ROM to my Command STation.
> > > > Is anybody has the original patternz?
> > > >
> > > > i try the 2500.zip from the files section but it is not compatible no
> > sound
> > > > came out, becouse the instrument def is not for the Copmposer rom.
> > > >
> > > > Thank you!!!!
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >  
> >
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