Topic: New device definition uploaded (Yamaha EX7)

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  • January 9, 2007 at 18:13 #1093
    swindus
    Participant

    New device definition file for a Yamaha EX7 uploaded in the Wiki.

    Two pod files in the zip, one ‘normal’ definition and one with sounds in categories.

    http://www.zynewave.com/wiki/doku.php?id=definitions:index

    January 9, 2007 at 20:33 #8614
    Zynewave
    Keymaster

    Thanks for your contributions. It’s great to see the library is beginning to grow with the help from users.

    January 10, 2007 at 08:06 #8628
    swindus
    Participant

    Thanks for the great application! It’s fun to create and use those hardware definitions.

    One question:
    At the moment I’m creating a definition file for the Ensoniq ESQ-1. I have a lot of sound banks in sysex format. They are already included as preset library in the definition. Now I want to insert all sounds/patch names of the sysex file as presets in the library preset. When used as folder it works like a charme but is there a way that podium sends the sysex file to the device when I double click a patch within the library folder? Now I have to double click the library preset first and then a preset to select it. I hope you understand what I mean. šŸ˜‰

    January 10, 2007 at 10:06 #8630
    Zynewave
    Keymaster

    So you have set it up similar to a plugin bank with program presets: A sysex library preset and a set of child presets configured with MIDI program change?

    I guess I could implement it so that the parent sysex object is sent to the device first, and then the program change. I’ll put it on the todo list.

    January 10, 2007 at 11:26 #8631
    swindus
    Participant

    @Zynewave wrote:

    So you have set it up similar to a plugin bank with program presets: A sysex library preset and a set of child presets configured with MIDI program change?

    Yes!

    @Zynewave wrote:

    I guess I could implement it so that the parent sysex object is sent to the device first, and then the program change. I’ll put it on the todo list.

    Would be great! Can you implement it in way, that the sysex bank is only sent when you select a child preset from a differrent parent library object?

    January 10, 2007 at 15:16 #8638
    Zynewave
    Keymaster

    Can you implement it in way, that the sysex bank is only sent when you select a child preset from a differrent parent library object?

    That should be possible.

    January 10, 2007 at 16:27 #8643
    swindus
    Participant

    Sounds great, looking forward to it. šŸ˜›

    January 11, 2007 at 18:49 #8674
    Zynewave
    Keymaster

    Release 1.78 will feature this:

    ā€¢ When assigning a MIDI program change preset to a track with an external hardware device, Podium will send both the program change as well as any parent sysex library preset. This matches the method used with plugin bank and program selection.

    But I’m afraid there are a lot of devices that are not able to use this setup, depending on the size of the bank bulk dump. It didn’t work with my Yamaha AN1x which has a bank size of 260K bytes. It’s simply too much data being transmitted at once, and the AN1x displayed a “MIDI buffer full” error.

    January 12, 2007 at 07:16 #8677
    swindus
    Participant

    Good news!

    But I’m afraid there are a lot of devices that are not able to use this setup, depending on the size of the bank bulk dump. It didn’t work with my Yamaha AN1x which has a bank size of 260K bytes. It’s simply too much data being transmitted at once, and the AN1x displayed a “MIDI buffer full” error.

    But I think it will work for the most old devices. Maybe you can add some kind of midi buffer and multiple sends later.

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