[PlanetCCRMA] Sysex utility?

[Frank van de Pol]

If I recall correctly from time I was playing with a D-10, the Roland 'D'
series of synths use some kind of handshake for the bulk dumps. I cannot
verify nor RTFM since don't have the hardware here. There might be
configuration setting for bulk dumps with/without handshaking?

Are you sure cat system > /dev/sequencer works? The OSS /dev/sequencer
char device takes some kind of record structure of OSS sequencer messages.
You might have more luck with a rawmidi port.

Frank.

On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 09:09:30AM -0500, Jason Balicki wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> A local music store had their annual "Garage Sale" over the weekend
> where they get rid of their old rental equipment and trade-ins and
> whatnot.  I got an excellent deal on an old Roland D-20.  I found
> some patches on the Internet and I want to transfer them to the
> keyboard, but I'm having some trouble.
> 
> Any other time I've needed to transfer sysex data to a device I've just
> done a "cat file.syx > /dev/sequencer" and the device takes it (I've
> upgraded the firmware on my Vetta amp this way) with no trouble,
> but for whatever reason this D-20 just will *not* accept data
> transferred in this fashion.  I put the device in "bulk transfer"
> mode and the display says "waiting", I send the data down the wire
> with "cat" and then -- nothing.  It just sits there "waiting" at me.
> I can do a transfer the other direction and capture the factory banks,
> but it takes a very long time.  Because of the length of the transfer
> *from* the device, I suspect that the data is just going too fast *to*
> the D-20 for it to handle.
> 
> I've attempted to use several "slowcat" utilities I've found on the
> Internet (a couple of perl scripts and an actual c program) but for
> whatever reason I can't get them to actually send the data down the
> wire.  For example, I can do a "slowcat.pl file.syx" and see the data
> being displayed slowly, but if I try to do "slowcat.pl file.sys >
> /dev/sequencer" nothing goes down the wire (the midi out light
> stays dark on my interface -- if I just use cat I can see the light
> blink briefly.)
> 
> So, I guess I'm asking if anyone has any other ideas I can try.
> 
> I'd really appreciate any information at all.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> --J(K)
> 
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