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

I wonder why no one has made a complete virtual remote control for command stations? As far as sysex goes...I need to research some cheap solutions. 

My first thought was one of those old Anatek Pocket boxes. They made a bunch of little specialty midi devices about the size of a cigarette pack. Both the sequencer and record one send sysex. They're a bit rare though.

Maybe it's possible to just use eloader to copy the sysex midi file to the MP7 and then connect the midi in to midi out.

I have a number of midi controllers, including a Behringer BCF, so perhaps I could get it to trigger the sysex string in standalone mode.

Like I said, using Bomes or even a full sequencer isn't problem, but I bought the MP7 so I could get away from the computer. 



    

--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "steve_the_composer" <smw-mail@...> wrote:
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> Excellent suggestions!!! The bottom line: any piece of hardware or software that can send user defined sysex commands can use E-Mu remote control.
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> As for me, while I have software that can send user defined sysex commands, I don't have any hardware that will do that--unless I use e-loader to embed the commands into an e-mu sequencer pattern.
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> As I had been already thinking of making a custom midi controller with an arduino (including doing tests of midi i/o), setting up some buttons to do stuff via remote control sysex should be very doable.  I am thinking of things like a button that increase tempo by a set amount and one that decreases it by a set amount, single buttons programmed to execute multiple changes over a controllable amount of time, etc.
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> I guess that puts me in the "build it only if I want to" category. :) But, as noted, there are plenty of other hardware and software options.
> 
> Steve
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> --- In xl7@...m, Bruno <brunorc@> wrote:
> >
> > 2012/6/26 Nathan Steele <XTCaine303@>:
> > > true enough, more of a comment to steve's comment. FWIW I think the
> > > novation remote series controllers could do this as well, probably a few
> > > other commercial products.
> > >
> > > On 6/26/2012 4:54 PM, Greg Waltzer wrote:
> > >> Peavey pc1600x can do this - no need to build anything (unless you want to).
> > 
> > I used Behringer BCR2000 to control my MP-7 with broken volume pot using SysEx.
> > 
> > Bruno
> >
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