Re: [Jsynthlib-devel] XML/SynthEd/S80 Driver

[Daniel L. <soc...@ma...>]

I guess SynthEd is in a dev coma.

Looks like I was wrong.. maybe my S80 can handle one parameter at a time, a=
lthough I couldn't get that to work through JSynthLib yet.  The MIDI spec c=
harts are a bit omplicated.  But I think there are maybe 3 ways to transmit=
 changes or something.

I don't know, it's not easy I suppose.  I think I'm going to write a short =
perl script to write directly strings directly to the divice and see if I c=
an get that working.

Cheers,
Dan


----- Original Message -----
From: "Rib Rdb" <ri...@gm...>
To: "Daniel Lyons" <soc...@ma...>
Subject: Re: [Jsynthlib-devel] Driver writing help
Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 08:34:08 -0700

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> On 5/10/05, Daniel Lyons <soc...@ma...> wrote:
> > Woops, sorry - I went off the thread and back on with my replies.
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> That's probably my fault -- my emails to the sourceforge list aren't
> going through.
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> > The XML interface looks cool, I noticed there's another=20
> > opensource project doing patch editting using XML in it (I=20
> > presume for the synth description).  Might not be the worst idea=20
> > to have the same XML format, then you could dig from both worlds=20
> > of Drivers for, perhaps, more synths (SynthDescription might be a=20
> > better word over drive.. or SynthInterface).
> >
> > They're at: http://synthed.sourceforge.net/
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> I had planned to be compatible with synthed, however their design
> seemed too restrictive and all development seems to have stopped.
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> > I guess support for my weird Yamaha S80 interface would be nice,=20
> > sine I'd guess the Motif series uses it, and from the docs I know=20
> > some others use it.
> >
> > Which is multiple values get crammed into one sysex string - E.G.=20
> > There's a 13 byte string for an oscillator and some parameters,=20
> > then a 29 byte string for the Amplitude, then a 27 byte one for=20
> > the pitch, and so on.
> >
> > I guess I'm going to make sets of Model/Sender pairs for each of=20
> > those for now... and work from there.
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> Actually I'm pretty sure the Motif sends all it's parameters one at a
> time except for a few bitmasks.
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> Do you mean you're going to have a separate class for each set of
> parameters? It seems like there should be a way to use one class that
> can work for all the groups (although I can't really think of a good
> way at the moment)


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