[A6] Sysex access to Program Edit Buffer

[Darren Richards]

On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 18:35:37 -0800 (PST), Sayer
<sayersafe-andromeda at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'm sure that I had it working for a little while with MidiQuest. But then I did something
> and it no longer worked. Someone else has posted on this list that it does work for them.
> I've tried in vain since but cannot get it to work any more. :(

Hi Sayer,

Thanks ... that truly is strange :-) I would be really interested to
hear if you ever get it to work again or find out any more about this.

The official sysex spec does not explicitly say that you can write to
the edit buffer using the message with opcode 02, but I noticed that
the unofficial document (www.rawsound.com/programs/A6_SysEx.pdf)
suggests that you can. Generally with most synths I've used and/or
read the specs for the same sysex message that the synth sends when
you request the edit buffer can also be sent back to populate the edit
buffer. Including other Alesis synths !

Anyways I tried the A6 support in JSynthlib (a freeware kind of affair
much like MidiQuest/SoundDiver) and that pops up a message informing
you that the A6 doesn't support writing to the Edit Buffer, so it
instead uses patch 127 in the user bank. So someone out there already
decided that this doesn't work. Doh !

Cheers,

Daz.