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

I agree with Matt that usb transfer is much quicker than midi. Unfortunately for me, the emu usb drivers haven't worked on my XP PC since SP2 or SP3.

I believe e-mu used a standard midi file sysex transfer protocol. Years ago I captured the sysex dialog and it made sense at the time. I probably tossed my notes/dumps. I doubt its in the sysex manual. Basically, you request a song dump and it is delivered in numbered packets with some handshaking, as I recall.

Aaron might have mentioned something about it. I will look. But, if the usb transfer works on your PC, I'd recommend using it for file transfers.

On the other hand, if some one has experience writing usb drivers and can figure out how to write updated e-mu drivers for the CS/P2500, I'd contribute whatever wisdom I might have to offer.

Steve


--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, <ricard2010@...> wrote:
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> I use E-Loader really only for transferring patterns to my computer for backing up. However, it occurs to me that it must be possible to write something more modern that would do the same thing. Has anyone done something like that, or are the relevant sysex (?) commands listed somewhere to upload/download pattern data? 
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>  It would seem that pattern data from E-loader is saved as MIDI (.MID) files, does that mean that the data transfer is also standardized? Or is it a proprietary format?
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