In Reply to: Sysex dump via MPU401 port not working posted by Rob Hofer on September 15, 1999 at 15:13:46:
I had some trouble on my old Yamaha card with the sysex stuff and my qs6, the card kept adding or removing data from the dumps, I ended up just using the serial cable for that, it works better anyway with most of the software.
my 2 cents for you to ponder.
Woody
: MPU401 MIDI gurus,
: I have a Roland MPU-401 ISA card on my computer (about 1990) and a Kawai KC-20 keyboard and an
: Alesis QSR. I've used MIDI for many years but until I got the QSR, I have had no need to mess with
: Sysex dumps (the keyboard and my old CM-32L being ROM based, no RAM banks). I am trying to dump
: the QSR banks (prog, mix, global, etc) via MIDI through the MPU401. It doesn't work. I've tried Freeloaded,
: Cubasis, Studio 4 and Unisyn, and none of them receive sysex midi data, even when i force
: the QSR to dump the data (and I hooked an osc. to the MIDI out and the sysex is getting to the MPU401
: MIDI IN jack). I can record everything coming from my keyboard inside the sequencer, through the same
: MIDI IN jack, but even a sysex from my keyboard is not being recorded, so I know it's not specifically a
: QSR problem. When I use Unisyn and tell it to download a bank, the QSR _does_ respond, and says
: outputting MIDI data. But from the Unisyn side, it says the QSR is not responding. I can send sysex
: message through the MIDI OUT on the 401 to the QSR, but not vice versa. I haven't tried to hook it
: up via serial port, but I've heard I'll have better luck with the MPU401 port anyway. If anyone knows
: what problem I'm running into or have any ideas on what to try next, I'd appreciate it.