[A6] Fw: A6 sysex librarian

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: Kenneth Martinez <kmartinez at bency.com>

>...I tried to sign up to code404 A6 but I'm not "approved"
> yet, so my post attempt is pending...and I noticed the code404 list has
> been quiet for weeks, and I thought maybe it's dormant...I hope you
> don't mind if I forward this to you, and maybe you'd know about it or
> know someone who does:

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> Subject:         A6 sysex librarian
>    Date:         Sat, 29 Jun 2002 18:12:35 -0600
>    From:        Kenneth Martinez <kmartinez at bency.com>
>      To:         a6 at code404.com
> 
> 
> Howdy folks - just got an A6 this past Wednesday...love it! I didn't buy
> 
> a RAM card yet, but wanted to be able to save sounds.  I didn't see any
> PC-based A6 sysex librarians (except maybe SoundDiver, which I don't
> own), and I just finished adding sysex support for the MKS-50 to a Java
> program called JSynthLib, so I thought I'd add basic librarian support
> (not patch editing) for the A6 also.  While doing this I ran into a
> quirk...tried this in Midi-Ox too and it does the same thing:
> 
> In program mode, I pulled up user program 000 and then requested the
> edit buffer from the sysex program on the PC, then program 001 and
> requested the edit buffer, then 002 and 003; I then saved the 4 edit
> buffer dumps on the PC.  When I send any of those edit buffers back to
> the A6, it just seems to always revert to the most recent edit buffer
> (#003 in this case), ignoring the sysex data I just sent.
> 
> What does this mean in plain English?  It means I can't send one program
> 
> at a time to the edit buffer to "audition" it - I'm having to actually
> store that program into one of the user program locations (I chose 000)
> so that I can play it from the synth.  So I'm wasting one user program
> location to use as an edit buffer, because I can't get data into the
> real program edit buffer.
> 
>  Has anybody encountered this?
> 
> p.s. I have OS version 1.40.12 loaded in the A6.