[A6] Soundbanks etc.

[Leary, John]

Geoff Moehrke:
> I've got a copy of the A6 sysex document from Alesis - shoot me an
> e-mail if you'd like me to forward it to you.  

Thanks to Paul's link I now have that same document -- assuming we're both
talking about a 981 kilobyte PDF?


> Be advised that A6 sysex data is "packed" in order to optimize data
> transfer (according to the doc).  8 bytes of sysex data contains 7 bytes
> of A6 patch data which needs to be "unpacked" before you can make any
> sense of it.  This is not that difficult to do, but it does require some
> bitwise arithmetic.  I've got code that does it which I'd be happy to
> share - just let me know.

Pre-debugged code is always a help!  Feel free to shoot it this way
(offlist).