G2 patch format deciphered

blue hell · Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2006 9:39 am Post subject:

And an addendum for the names sections :

The strings do not end with a zero byte always. They have a maximum length of 16 bytes, and when they reach that length no zero byte is used.

blue hell · Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2006 4:03 pm Post subject:

And another thingy, just a single bit this time.

When I try to read a parameter section according to the specs I get a Parameter Count that is doubled (6 instead of 3 for the 2-our module). When I treat Parameter Count as a septet instead of an octet that problem is solved.

elektro80 · Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2006 5:20 pm Post subject:

...makes me wonder if Sweden is to blame for global warming.

blue hell · Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2006 5:41 pm Post subject:

Global warming, where ? Sweden ? why would that be ... but we actually did have some pretty good global warming today.

Ehm .. tada !

blue hell · Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 2:18 pm Post subject:

Discovered bit shift bug in my parser, and am partially rewriting it, using less code. Might have to come back on a few details I thought to be wrong in the patch format description. Module descrptions sofar still seem to be ok.

dasz · Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 4:09 pm Post subject:

are you going to give us mortals a static or activex COM dll? or ??? PC & Mac?

I can already imagine the kind of patch altering one will be able to do. I am thinking doing Vector patch morphing, and importing mid files into g2 sequencers ... may you be successful.
/Dasz

blue hell · Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 4:44 pm Post subject:

dasz · Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 5:18 pm Post subject:

blue hell · Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 5:39 pm Post subject:

Its at : http://www.iaf.nl/Users/BlueHell/html/nm-open/nm-open-g2info.htm

Now I feel like eating, but they messed up time (for the summer), and its past bed time already, ah well.

dasz · Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 5:53 pm Post subject:

Thanks Jan. This effort is another reason I dedicated a patch for you Wink

/Dasz

blue hell · Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 5:59 pm Post subject:

Axiom · Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 1:06 am Post subject:

wow

This is a great work, Jan.
I will release my poor GX7 sources hoping that a real programmer can do something better than my way to convert those patches.

Thumbs up,
Luca

3phase · Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2006 5:22 am Post subject:

Kassen · Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2006 7:54 am Post subject:

Can't you compile Delphi for Mac?
I thought delphi was mainly a database thingy, that shouldn't need any real platform dependant hooks, right?

blue hell · Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2006 12:45 pm Post subject:

blue hell · Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 3:44 pm Post subject:

Just finished the parameter names, next thing is to find their ranges (and meanings). Updated my website : http://www.iaf.nl/Users/BlueHell/html/nm-open/nm-open-g2info.htm (or FTTB click the 2nd link in my sig).

TimeStamp( '2006-03-31 00:25')

TimeStamp( '2006-04-01 00:05')

Discovered some mistakes and ommisions, fixed those, updated the web site.

2006-04-02 02:53

Some more mistakes fixed, major parser overhaul, started on parameter ranges and finished first four tabs for that. See website for more detals.

blue hell · Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 4:19 pm Post subject:

2006-04-03 00:57

Some more mistakes fixed, every run through the data I find some - like mispelings, ommissions or confusing names.

Finished all parameter (and mode) ranges, there are probably some mistakes in that as well. Next thing will be to make categories for parameters and associate those with the parameter's meanings.

Just posted an update to my web site, click 2nd link in my sig (fttb, or look above).

dasz · Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 4:53 pm Post subject:

Thanks again for doing this, Jan
/Dasz

blue hell · Posted: Sat Apr 08, 2006 7:07 pm Post subject:

2006-04-09 03:36

Categorized the parameter and mode ranges. Some 1000+ ranges ended up in some 190- categories. So this seems useful indeed.

Next thing is to fill in the details for the new parameter table I made and change the parser and the HTML generator a bit to make use of it and to generate output from it. Should be another couple of days worth of work.

Changed the HTML output to make it more readable. Changed the parser to make it easier to make use of the parameter categories. Just some preparations really for the next step in the bootstrapping process.

One more week or so I think.

Click 2nd entry in my sig to reach the info.

BobTheDog · Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2006 3:01 pm Post subject:

Hi Jan,

It looks like your getting on very well with this, it is very good of you to be putting this work in for the benefit of the rest of us.

In what direction do you see this work going?

For instance a G1 to G2 patch converter or a different editor etc?

Cheers

Andy

blue hell · Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2006 3:40 pm Post subject:

blue hell · Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 2:22 pm Post subject:

Finished .. except for errors Shocked

Fozzie · Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 3:05 pm Post subject:

mosc · Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 5:23 pm Post subject:

Wow, great job. Jan, you are a wizard...

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blue hell · Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 6:36 pm Post subject: