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From: "Ross Clement" <rossclement@...>
To: <YamahaDX@...>
Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 6:17 AM
Subject: [YamahaDX] Heads up on my software

Yes, my DX7Editor is still coming along. A lot of stuff keeps getting

added to it.

My initial plan was to release it without help files apart from a tutorial

video. But, I've started writing help and in doing so I'm discovering bugs.
So, rather frustrating for myself but I think I need to get the help written
if only for the side effect of debugging.

I've spent a lot of time using it to program my TX7, and I feel that the

program basically works well and makes it very easy to program DX/TX synths.
A lot of the "additional" capabilities over and above just being able to
change the parameters, such as extensive copy and paste of all sorts of
different things, being able to save and load parts of voices, using the
second window for "detailed" editing etc., seem to work very well in
practice, and vastly ease programming.

Extensive (computer) keyboard control modes have been added. So, you can

(more or less) just edit an attached DX7 by typing on the computer keyboard,
through parameter shortcut codes and using the arrow keys to move around the
parameters. In this mode the program reports on actions through built in
speech. This part of the program isn't quite complete, with the main
remaining problem being how to load and save patch banks through keyboard
commands. But, I think I know how to do this and will have a crack at
completing that bit soon. I found references to how to send custom MIDI
commands to a synth in a past discussion on here, so I added a facility to
create custom MIDI commands, which then appear in a menu. I've added a lot
of things like that.

I did find some nasty bugs though. MIDI in Java on the mac doesn't work

too well, which is a bit of a pain as I'm developing primarily on Mac OSX. I
have a workaround, but didn't realise that the interface between the main
program and the workaround bit sometimes merged MIDI messages, so that they
didn't work as the workaround program would try to send (e.g.) a six byte
MIDI message that wasn't recognised. Resulting in stuck notes on the TX and
other problems. Fixed now, but that sort of thing is a nasty bug. I'd be
very happy for a brave person to have a go using my software, if they
promise not to judge it based on its current state :) There is no packaged
installer, so any extremely early adopter would have to do things such as
unzipping the help files and putting them in the correct directory.

Regards,

Ross Clement



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