I have a pet project, which may turn out to be impossible, but I'd like to gather some info before I try.
I'm trying to find out more about how sysex is implemented in Live 10/M4L, but I can't seem to find any documentation on it. I've seen in a couple of posts here some rather disappointing news, which seems to be that you can only have either up or downstream sysex working per midi track in Live, thereby making a bi-directional sysex data flow impossible. The reason I ask is because I want to try to build a patch editor/librarian for my venerable Kurzweil K2000 (and possibly to work with later models if time permits). This is admittedly a daunting first m4l project, but hopefully I can build on my dev experience and channel it into something a few people could make use of.
Anyway, and advice on sysex docs in m4l and current implementation would be much appreciated.
Thank you!
Implementation of SYSEX in M4L
Re: Implementation of SYSEX in M4L
http://maxforlive.com/library/device/4761/emu-control
Fill yer boots.
Patch isn't pretty as it's a work in progress and I've spent zero time cleaning it up (and I'm a beginner), but it does some of what you're trying to do for the K2000 for Emu EIV samplers.
Fill yer boots.
Patch isn't pretty as it's a work in progress and I've spent zero time cleaning it up (and I'm a beginner), but it does some of what you're trying to do for the K2000 for Emu EIV samplers.
Re: Implementation of SYSEX in M4L
This is a massively helpful and much appreciated place to start with. Thank you for this! Have the k2000 sysex spec I found a while back (never been officially documented) so this will be.....interesting...
cskracer wrote:http://maxforlive.com/library/device/4761/emu-control
Fill yer boots.
Patch isn't pretty as it's a work in progress and I've spent zero time cleaning it up (and I'm a beginner), but it does some of what you're trying to do for the K2000 for Emu EIV samplers.
Re: Implementation of SYSEX in M4L
One tip to watch out for - if you need two way sysex you cannot currently send and receive sysex on a single track. You'll see in my example I have two M4L patches. The second one just sits on a second track with Monitor In set waiting for return sysex from the sampler and then uses a send object to send any returning sysex to the main patch.
No idea if the K2000 does the same thing, but with the Emus you can send a sysex command querying the state of various parameters on the sampler and the sampler then returns sysex with values. So for example that's how I grab preset names off of the sampler.
Someone in centrecode is claiming he's doing it on a single track, but I haven't followed up with him as I've been to busy. I suspect he's not doing the same thing, but when I have time I'll try it on a single track and see if he's right or not.
No idea if the K2000 does the same thing, but with the Emus you can send a sysex command querying the state of various parameters on the sampler and the sampler then returns sysex with values. So for example that's how I grab preset names off of the sampler.
Someone in centrecode is claiming he's doing it on a single track, but I haven't followed up with him as I've been to busy. I suspect he's not doing the same thing, but when I have time I'll try it on a single track and see if he's right or not.