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

I am wondering if the outgoing midi out led is a sysex error message. Can you capture it?

Where are the P2500 --> P2K ROM files?  I will take a look to see if there are any obvious errors in the data.

Steve

--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "Ricard" <ricard2010@...> wrote:
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> --- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "steve_the_composer" <smw-mail@> wrote:
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> > Thanks for the pointer to p. 168 of the XL-7 Manual. This parameter only affects sysex out.
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> > I believe the manual is talking about recording and playing back sysex in a sequence (I.e., with the clock running and measures ticking by), not using a sysex bank capturing feature built into a sequencer. If you slow it down on the way to the sequencer, instead of taking 4 measures to do a dump, it might take 12 measures. In that way, playing it back would be slower. At least, that's what I think paragraph 2 is talking about. 
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> I agree. I think that's what they mean too.
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> > If I am right, you could try slowing down the clock/tempo of the sending sequencer.
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> I'm using a sysex dump program, so there's no tempo adjustment, however I can specify a delay between each sysex packet. Even with a delay of 1 second between them, I still get Sysex: too fast.
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> I also tested with a known good patch dump from my machine. I didn't test all possible values, but specifying a sysex delay of 0 in the dump program caused a Sysex: too slow message, specifying a delay of 30 milliseconds caused it to work fine (I also verified that the patches in fact were written to memory). So it appears the XL-7 is ok, and there is something amiss with the data in the converted P2500 files.
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> > You may know that several of the conversion banks (e.g., P2000 presets for the P2500 ROM) were distributed by Sean@E-mu as *.mid files.  I think that supports my interpretation.
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> Yes, I saw those, however, the ones I was interested in (i.e. P2500 presets for the P2000 ROM) where apparently converted by someone on this list, and saved as .syx files. Looking at them in an editor confirms this - they are not MIDI (.mid) files, they are raw sysex data.
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> Another odd thing with these files, apart from the Sysex: too fast message is that during the dump I can see the MIDI out led on the XL-7 flash occasionally. So something in the files is causing the XL-7 to transmit data. It doesn't do that with the patch dumps I have that originated from the machine itself, so there's another difference there. I don't if it is significant though.
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