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Make my own sysex-string on Mac OS X
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 3:22 pm    Post subject: Make my own sysex-string on Mac OS X
Subject description: Any free software for this?
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Hi.

I need to compose a couple of small sysex-strings.
I have Logic but the interface to build sysex there was a joke.

Are there any small OS X apps (free or shareware preferably) out there?
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 3:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

As OS X is very close to Unix as I understand it would it not be possible to make a small shell script that would echo a binary file to a MIDI port? The problem would then be reduced to finding a hex editor to make the binary files.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 12:06 am    Post subject: Re: Make my own sysex-string on Mac OS X
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torsig1967 wrote:

I need to compose a couple of small sysex-strings.
I have Logic but the interface to build sysex there was a joke.


I would try to learn how to do it with the application I already have (btw I have done something like that with Logic Pro 8 or previous versions).

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PostPosted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 12:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

Blue Hell wrote:
As OS X is very close to Unix as I understand it would it not be possible to make a small shell script that would echo a binary file to a MIDI port? The problem would then be reduced to finding a hex editor to make the binary files.

How would such a command look like in the Terminal?

I guess there is a hex-editor already in Unix, can't remember the name though.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 12:40 am    Post subject: Re: Make my own sysex-string on Mac OS X
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seraph wrote:
torsig1967 wrote:

I need to compose a couple of small sysex-strings.
I have Logic but the interface to build sysex there was a joke.


I would try to learn how to do it with the application I already have (btw I have done something like that with Logic Pro 8 or previous versions).


Yes that would be my first choice, I believe I did a few sysex in LA4.,
But it looks totally weird in LA8.

Guess I'll try to hear what they say in a Logic forum about this. Maybe I missed something.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 10:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

You have emacs in OSX. Start'er up and enter hexl-mode (Escape-x and type hexl-mode + return). Emacs! The good days are back. Smile Of course I don't know how to do that midi port thing.

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PostPosted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 10:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

Oh, I don't know how to actually edit stuff in hexl-mode, just look at it. Confused I'm sure it's possible...

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PostPosted: Sat Sep 20, 2008 1:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

Ahh, Emacs.
Of course!

But by reading the manual I found out it wasn't so difficult to edit sysex in Logic 8 after all.
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 20, 2008 4:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

torsig1967 wrote:

But by reading the manual I found out it wasn't so difficult to edit sysex in Logic 8 after all.


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PostPosted: Sat Sep 20, 2008 12:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

SuperCollider can do this... there is a MIDIOut object and it supports sending sysex. Write the bytes into an Int8Array and then send them, e.g.,

Code:
MIDIClient.init(4, 4);      // however many MIDI devices you have

m = MIDIOut(indexOfDevice, MIDIClient.destinations[index].uid);

// actually you can write the bytes as unsigned ints 0..255
// but SC will print out the array as signed ints
a = Int8Array[ ... sysex bytes, as signed integers -128..127 ...];
m.sysex(a);


It's been awhile since I used it but it does work... I think it's broken in the stable 3.2 build but it has been fixed in svn since then. More recent binary snapshots are at http://supercollider.wesleyan.edu/

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