Re: [Jsynthlib-devel] TC Electronic M350

[Frankie F. <jsy...@te...>]

On 11/09/2011 01:42, Frankie Fisher wrote:
> So we've now got a working single patch librarian and editor for the
> M350. There isn't any proper documentation in the manual, so I had to
> work the SysEx out myself. (For future reference I've documented the
> format at
> http://francisfisher.me.uk/problem/2011/deciphering-tc-electronic-m350-sysex-format/
> ).
>
> There's one thing still missing - I need to make a bank librarian. I am
> not aware of any specific SysEx messages that would download the entire
> bank so I need to request a single patch 99 times. Is there a better way
> of doing it than something like this:
>
> for (i=1; i<99;++i)
> {
>   singleDriver.reqestPatchDump(0,i);
>   sleep(100);
> }
>
> I am guess this would block the UI thread until it's requested which I
> don't really want to do!
>
> cheers,
> frankie
>
>

I tried this method and it did freeze the application until it finished
as expected. I think in the long run I will have to make some progress
dialogue that can get displayed while fetching banks - unless anyone
knows a driver that does this already tbat I can steal the code from?
But I don't want to do this yet while Joe is still working on his UI
refactoring. So I think for now I will leave the bank driver alone and
come back to it in the future.

frankie