[Wxlua-users] Thinger. A DX7 editor for SysEx data transfer to DX7, FS1R etc.

[The D. <the...@bl...>]

Just testing the mail for now, and saying I'm new to wxLua and I like it immensely. I'll turn over my project to help the cause, when it's done. To those who don't know the Yamaha DX7 synthesiser and the many compatible instruments made in the 22 years since, the Thinger will just be an extensive example of slightly eccentric wxLua coding, but to those who make electronic music, I hope it will be as useful to you as it already is to me. It's functional, emulates the original DX7's use of Init, Edit/Compare and Recall buffers, but I'm next to work on operator copy and algorithm display, and operations on 32-voice bank files.

I'll release this as a full v1, when it's at least as fuctional as an FM synthesizer should be, I expect this to be in anything up to about 6 weeks time, but it might be a lot less.

One bit of help I could use is some helpful comments regarding MIDI. This is a serial asycnchronous 31.25 Kbaud interface with 8 bits and a start/stop bit added to each byte, and a simple protocol with values over 127 as Status bytes, the rest as Data bytes, making it a useful machine control transmission with uses well beyone electronic music. This might excite someone into coding a library for wxLua. I hope. :) Right now I'm using a small German app called SysEx, which takes a command line, but I want something that doesn't pop up every time it's invoked.

Last question: Is there anything (or will there be something) that can compile a wkLua script with all resources into a standalone binary? This would make wxLua more attractive than Visual Studio, to me. And probably to a few thousand other people, I suspect.

To end: I'll add posts if I run out of ideas while working, begging for help, but I won't ask before I solve most things as I prefer it that way. Also, thans to John Labenski who has already helped a lot, and has helped launch this SourceForge effort, partly in response to my own wish that it might happen.

Crow.


PS. Small buglet? wxTextCtrl has rthe wrong system colour for text. There are at least two in MSwindows, and someone seems to have picked the wrong one. wxTE_RICH as style corrects this, but it would be nice to have it as default. :)