Re: [Rosegarden-user] Perhaps A Question for Pedro Lopez Cabanillas on Using the Event List Editor to Save SysEx Dump to a File

[Pedro Lopez-C. <ped...@gm...>]

On Tuesday, June 9, 2009, Sean Beeson wrote:
> Rosegarden records a whole "ALL" sysex dump from one of my external
> synths, but it breaks it up into multiple blocks. the "Save Data"
> function will only save one of these sysex blocks. How can one save
> all the information/dump/blocks as one file that I can use to read in
> later or by something else that can use the syx file? I tried a few
> ways but couldn't get it to save. Loading files (maybe not so big of
> files) works fine, btw.

Yes, the RG sysex editor has this limitation. It is intended for short and 
single messages only. It is not a full fledged sysex librarian.

When I need to record a sysex dump and save it to a file, I use the amidi(1) 
utility provided by ALSA-utils. It can restore later the sysex dump into the 
synth, too. http://linux.die.net/man/1/amidi

I've wrapped amidi with a shell script some time ago to use it with my SC-88.
You can use the script as an example for other synth models.
http://perso.wanadoo.es/plcl/misc/sc88sysex-0.1.tar.gz
http://lwn.net/Articles/125413/

HTH

Regards,
Pedro