Houston, i think we have a problem, i don't use a computer for making
music.

--- In FMSynthesis@yahoogroups.com, "Tim Conrardy" <tconrardy@h...>
wrote:
>
>
> >I'm rather new to synth programming. I own an SY-77 but i only have
> >the presetsounds available. I want to listen to some patches others
> >created. I see a lot of times this 'Sysex'-thing appearing on
several
> >groups. What to do with thes Sysex-things. In other words, what can
> >be done with it. How should these things be loaded into my SY?
> >
> >WIm
>
> Depending on what computer platform you use for music( or if you
even have a
> computer hooked up to your instruments!) You can obtain
applications (
> shareware/freeware and commercial) that allow you to "speak" to
your
> instruments. You can download banks of sounds and send them to your
> instruments. You can even create new sounds, create a custom bank,
and send
> that to your instrument.
>
> To do this, you might need to set your instrument to be able to
recieve
> SysEx information. That is the dialogs you are seeing on the SY77.
I don't
> own one, but most synths allow you to set the recieving and
transmit MIDI
> channel as well as turn on and off system Exclusive. You can also
initiate a
> "dump" of the present patches in the instruments to the computer or
even
> hardware sequencer if it can do that.( which is advisable if you
plan to
> dump new sounds to it and you want to keep the old sounds...the new
sounds
> will overwrite the old ones:-)
>
> Hope this helps explain some things. Let us know your computer
setup and we
> can be more specific.
>
> TimC
>
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