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torsig1967
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Make my own sysex-string on Mac OS X
Subject description: Any free software for this? |
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Hi.
I need to compose a couple of small sysex-strings.
I have Logic but the interface to build sysex there was a joke.
Are there any small OS X apps (free or shareware preferably) out there? |
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As OS X is very close to Unix as I understand it would it not be possible to make a small shell script that would echo a binary file to a MIDI port? The problem would then be reduced to finding a hex editor to make the binary files.
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Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 12:06 am Post subject:
Re: Make my own sysex-string on Mac OS X
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| torsig1967 wrote: |
I need to compose a couple of small sysex-strings.
I have Logic but the interface to build sysex there was a joke.
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I would try to learn how to do it with the application I already have (btw I have done something like that with Logic Pro 8 or previous versions).
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torsig1967
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| Blue Hell wrote: | | As OS X is very close to Unix as I understand it would it not be possible to make a small shell script that would echo a binary file to a MIDI port? The problem would then be reduced to finding a hex editor to make the binary files. |
How would such a command look like in the Terminal?
I guess there is a hex-editor already in Unix, can't remember the name though. |
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torsig1967
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Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 12:40 am Post subject:
Re: Make my own sysex-string on Mac OS X
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| seraph wrote: | | torsig1967 wrote: |
I need to compose a couple of small sysex-strings.
I have Logic but the interface to build sysex there was a joke.
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I would try to learn how to do it with the application I already have (btw I have done something like that with Logic Pro 8 or previous versions). |
Yes that would be my first choice, I believe I did a few sysex in LA4.,
But it looks totally weird in LA8.
Guess I'll try to hear what they say in a Logic forum about this. Maybe I missed something. |
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You have emacs in OSX. Start'er up and enter hexl-mode (Escape-x and type hexl-mode + return). Emacs! The good days are back.  Of course I don't know how to do that midi port thing.
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Oh, I don't know how to actually edit stuff in hexl-mode, just look at it.  I'm sure it's possible...
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torsig1967
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Ahh, Emacs.
Of course!
But by reading the manual I found out it wasn't so difficult to edit sysex in Logic 8 after all. |
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| torsig1967 wrote: |
But by reading the manual I found out it wasn't so difficult to edit sysex in Logic 8 after all. |
 
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SuperCollider can do this... there is a MIDIOut object and it supports sending sysex. Write the bytes into an Int8Array and then send them, e.g.,
| Code: | MIDIClient.init(4, 4); // however many MIDI devices you have
m = MIDIOut(indexOfDevice, MIDIClient.destinations[index].uid);
// actually you can write the bytes as unsigned ints 0..255
// but SC will print out the array as signed ints
a = Int8Array[ ... sysex bytes, as signed integers -128..127 ...];
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It's been awhile since I used it but it does work... I think it's broken in the stable 3.2 build but it has been fixed in svn since then. More recent binary snapshots are at http://supercollider.wesleyan.edu/
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