[PD] Patch for Akai EWI (was "Reading and writing binary files")

[Ingo]

Oops, I just loaded the patch on a Windows XP machine. Looks like [midiout]
is not working here. I guess the way to go would be NRPN on Windows. Unless
there is another object that could handle SysEx that I am not aware of.

Ingo


> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: pd-list-bounces at iem.at [mailto:pd-list-bounces at iem.at] Im Auftrag von
> Ingo
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 8. März 2011 18:35
> An: 'David'; pd-list at iem.at
> Betreff: Re: [PD] Patch for Akai EWI (was "Reading and writing binary
> files")
> 
> Hi David,
> 
> here's a full EWI-USB editor.
> However, it only works one way! Pd -> EWI-USB. It cannot retrieve data
> from
> the EWI.
> 
> If you want to save your data you should specify a path (marked with red
> "bangs") twice for loading and saving and you need to set the midi port.
> Nothing else to do.
> 
> I have tested it with Linux (Ubuntu). Not sure if it works on any other
> OS.
> 
> Hope it's useful for some people!
> 
> Cheers
> Ingo
> 
> 
> > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> > Von: pd-list-bounces at iem.at [mailto:pd-list-bounces at iem.at] Im Auftrag
> von
> > David
> > Gesendet: Dienstag, 8. März 2011 03:07
> > An: pd-list at iem.at; muranyia at gmail.com
> > Betreff: Re: [PD] Patch for Akai EWI (was "Reading and writing binary
> > files")
> >
> > Thanks. I'm not sure I understand what you mean when you say "you
> > don't really need sysex", though. I have to send a 6 byte NRPN
> > message, followed by a 14 byte SysEx message. I think I understand how
> > to send the NRPN message, but I'm still confused about the SysEx
> > message. Would I use [midiout] to do that? According to the help file
> > in PD, this object is still undocumented and is only supported on
> > Linux. Is that still true? And it only has two inlets, which I'm
> > guessing would be an arbitrary 1 byte value and a channel number, but
> > I'm not sure.
> >
> > Unfortunately, none of these messages are documented in the owner's
> > manual or on their web site, but someone has reverse-engineered the
> > messages and posted his findings here:
> >
> > http://www.ewiusb.com/sysex_page1
> > http://www.ewiusb.com/sysex_page2
> >
> > The whole stream (an NRPN, a 14 byte SysEx, the same NRPN again,
> > another 19 byte SysEx, and a final NRPN) would look like this, for
> > example:
> >
> > // sysex enable :
> > 63 01 62 04 06 20
> > // sysex message :
> > F0 47 7F 6D 00 00 06 40 40 40 40 08 7F F7
> > // sysex enable :
> > 63 01 62 04 06 20
> > // sysex message :
> > F0 F7 7F 6D 02 00 0B 00 00 40 20 02 00 00 7F 00 7C 7D F7
> > // sysex done :
> > 63 01 62 04 06 10
> >
> > David.
> >
> > > Message: 1
> > > Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2011 18:07:59 +0100
> > > From: Andr?s Mur?nyi <muranyia at gmail.com>
> > > Subject: Re: [PD] Patch for Akai EWI (was "Reading and writing binary
> > >        files")
> > > To: PD List <pd-list at iem.at>
> > > Message-ID:
> > >        <AANLkTimf2TztoeqGx38BLvs_Rphk5YQLi6NnFnB2Uu0j at mail.gmail.com>
> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
> > >
> > > NRPNS are interestingly made up of CC messages so you don't really
> need
> > > sysex.
> > > Attached [nrpnout] (original version by David McCallum) and [nrpnout-
> > yamaha]
> > > where CC numbers are modified according to Yamaha specs. You may need
> to
> > > match two of the four CC numbers with your gear (the other two are
> > always
> > > the same), and check if your gear needs MSB and LSB address or just
> one
> > > "NRPN number".
> > >
> > > Andras
> >
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