13 Apr
2003
13 Apr
'03
10:58 p.m.
On Mon, 14 Apr 2003 01:43:44 +0200
Frank wrote:
I think noone here ever said that "cat x.mid
>/dev/midi" works the way you
expect it to work. You seem to be confusing raw SysEx files with MIDI
files - they are NOT the same.
Yes I know they're not the same. A mistake on my part. I meant a raw SySex dump. My
appologies.
A "good" MIDI file player (pmidi?) might be
able to send the SysEx data
contained in a MIDI file to your external device, but I have not yet tried
this.
pmidi works fine for me.
As Julien explained in another mail, at least my Roland D50 (and probably
also other Roland keyboards) normally require a Handshake protocol for
data transfers.
AFAIK D50 is very similar to GR50. But GR50 has a 'one way' sysex dump option
that is a data transfer without handshake (there is a possibility for handshake procedures
as well). I have been using a one way dump into a MIDI sequencer. Playing it back into
the unit (with any midi sequencer in Linux) results in checksum errors. The same
procedure in MacOS (a long time ago) worked fine for me.
cheers
./MiS