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(Message started by: Dean on Nov 22^nd, 2022, 5:01pm)

Title: Using MIDI-OX
Post by Dean on Nov 22^nd, 2022, 5:01pm

Is there a tutorial or manual to show how to use MIDI-OX. I am not sure of what to do and can't get SYX to send to my Korg WaveStation EX

Thanks

Title: Re: Using MIDI-OX
Post by Breath on Nov 22^nd, 2022, 11:31pm

Hi
There is quite a lot of information under the help menu.

Quick setup for starting out (MidiOx remembers these changes)
1) menu View / Input Monitor and View / Port Routings...
2) size and arrange.
I have the Input and Output Monitors on the left - 1/4 window each.
I have a lot of Midi ports, so the right half is the MIDI Port Routing window
3) menu Options / Midi Devices select all the Ins and Outs you want to use in the list boxes on the left.
Press OK
They should appear in the Midi Port Routing window along with the MIDI-OX Event Port.
NOTE that the MIDI-OX Event Port is where all the MidiOx sends all the data you are sending a sysex file.
4) Drag an Input (the pic of the Midi DIN socket on the left of the Midi Port Routing window) to a DIN socket on the right (output).
You should see a connection line drawn between them.
If you want to send a sysex file then you would drag the MIDI-OX Event Port to your interface that is connected to the input of the synth.

To enable the connection for sysex there is a button on the bottom right toolbar SYX. Click it to hi-light and enable sysex.
If is already hi-lighted then click it twice - off then on to connect all your new connections in the Midi Port Routing window.
5) View / Sysex... to bring up the Sysex window.
6)On this new window select the menu File/Send Sysex File... select the file and press OK.
You should see lots of data in the Output window going to your synth.

Don't forget many older synths need to have their memory switched from Read Only and sometimes you need to enable the acceptance of Sysex messages in the synth.

Hope that helps
Royce

Title: Re: Using MIDI-OX
Post by Dean on Nov 23^rd, 2022, 11:25am

Thanks Royce!

I have done some of that and will work on the rest that you have provided me with.

Title: Re: Using MIDI-OX
Post by Dean on Nov 25^th, 2022, 6:36pm

I don't know where the "MIDI-OX Event Port" is or what it is. I also am not sure of what an "Input to a DIN socket" on the right. So I don't think I have a sysex file to drag to the "MIDI-OX Event Port". I did find "SYS" at the bottom right.
I would like to send a screen shot but don't know how.

Title: Re: Using MIDI-OX
Post by Breath on Nov 25^th, 2022, 10:29pm

Hi Dean

So a DIN socket is the hardware socket at the back of the synth used for MIDI In Out and Thru.

On the Port Routing window ( View / Port Routings...) there normally is a column of pictures of these sockets on the left hand side as inputs and a columm on right side of pictures of DIN sockets that are outputs.

http://rnhart.net/midi/attachments/midi-ox-routing.png
(This image is from https://www.midi.org/forum/8338-retrieving-and-undesrtanding-sysex-messages-from-a-novation-launchcontrolxl/latest)
In the the picture the PC seems to have a Class Compliant Midi Interface and has loopMidi installed.
The lines are connections from the left (input) to the right (output).
To create these lines (connections) left click an input picture and drag it to the output socket picture on the right

On the bottom left is the MIDI-OX Event Port and, in this picture, there is no connection so if you had a sysex file to send you would create a connection to your Midi interface output.

You say you don't have a file so I am wondering what you are trying to do.

Let me know exactly what you are planning and what you want to achieve.

All the best
Royce

Title: Re: Using MIDI-OX
Post by Dean on Nov 28^th, 2022, 1:33pm

I go to step 4 and I see a connection line. Then I don't know how to do the next step "drag the MIDI-OX Event Port to your interface that is connected to the input of the synth".

How do I send a screen shot?

Thanks

Title: Re: Using MIDI-OX
Post by Dean on Nov 28^th, 2022, 1:49pm

Thanks Royce.
I have several SYX banks or groups of sounds for my WaveStation EX That I used to be able to load from my computer to the EX keyboard using a program called MIDI Quest. I upgraded to Windows 11 and MIDI Quest will not run on Windows 11. Since all I want to do is load these SYX or banks to the EX I don't want to spend 3 to 4 hundred dollars to do this upgrading to the latest version of MIDI Quest.

Title: Re: Using MIDI-OX
Post by Breath on Nov 28^th, 2022, 5:12pm

As I recall MidiQuest saves the data it generates or downloads from the synth as a System Exclusive file which can be sent from MidiOx. (*.syx file)

Step 4 dragging - this is the standard Windows thing.
Move the mouse to rest over the DIN socket picture with the label MIDI-OX Event Port (bottom left) and press and hold the left mouse button down and 'drag' (move the mouse with the button held) to one of the DIN socket pictures on the right side and release the left mouse button.
A line should have been drawn to show you the connection.

The DIN socket on the right you need to connect is a Midi Out Port connected to the Wavestation's Midi In by a cable.
Don't forget to enable the passing of sysex with the button on the bottom right toolbar SYX. Click it to hi-light and enable sysex or click Off then On again if it is already On.

Find your Wavestation Sysex file that you want to send and use 5) and 6) to send it

Getting closer.
Royce