Hi Charles! I'm still working my ass off, but maybe one day... :S ... Sounds like you've found your little pond in the big ocean. Great that some people enjoy...
I just spoke with Tim Conrady about interfacing a 1040ST with the OMS OpCode Studio 4 MIDI box. He said to check with anyone on this group who does hardware...
nope not me , no oms op code is like an abbrev i suspect for operating codes but i am all out of answers , i do not even have an interest in the 4 patch box ,...
... OpCode is/was a manufacturer of midi hardware and later, software plugins. OMS means OpCode Midi System, and it refers to OpCode's proprietary MIDI...
Does anyone actually know what is the latency we get from atari ST using midi? I heard quotes as low as 2ms....could anyone confirm this? Thank you Chris ...
Digital outboard boards get about 8ms, I belive....PC is a bit higher....All my analog is pretty much tight as nuns ahole, but I was always wondering about ST...
Donīt know exactly, no software for a loopback test like Miditest for PC available here. Itīs very fast and tight,- I use Ataris since the mid 80th w/ tons...
There was an admission by Keyboard magazine that they got their facts wrong many years ago, and that MIDI latency is only 2ms. More discussion here: ...
This isnīt really related to the PC, but the combination of the hardware components of the PC, the connected midi interface and the drivers of the used OS and...
Who in the world shall do this and whatfor ? OMS is for Macs, so if you have a Opcode interface, take a old Mac G3 and Logic and youīre fine w/ midi. If you...
Hi: I think OMS was ported over to dos/windows operating systems also, so there may be something you could do there, maybe with steam. Also, the log3 can work...
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Apr 5, 2008 6:12 pm
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... also, No, there would be no purpose for that, as Windows has its own midi operating system and even before that PC had a DOS MIDI standard (Roland's...
I managed to make disk images of my Atari floppies which contain files from many years ago for KCS. When I mount the disk images in Steem, I can load the...
The manual for the FM8 says that it can receive DX7 sysex via MIDI when in standalone mode. I have my old DX7 patches (sold the DX7 many years ago) in KCS...
You might want to google "opcode oms windows". Opcode in 1996 released versions of Vision, Galaxy and OMS for windows. ... From: zoinky420...
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dr.t dr.t 4 op ..i think . i am in same vote, i own a tx81z now and sold my dx....but i am sure there is a program which converts dx sys ex messages into 4...
... It appears that you're right about that, however it's meaningless marketing jargon, since OMS can do nothing for Windows that Windows doesn't already do,...
On Sun, 06 Apr 2008 07:06:17 -0000,"zoinky420" <zoinky420@...> ... Me too, but from memory the Studio 4 wasn't much good anyway, crap midi timing & as...
... Most of the DX7 patches on the internet are in pure DX7 (MkI) SysEx format. These files have a size of 4104 bytes and contain a bank of 32 patches. They...
Martin Tarenskeen
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Apr 6, 2008 1:45 pm
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i forget martian , what is pure sysex? is that when the op code manufacturer id is removed from the header , ? what beniefits is pure sysex from just a normal...
... With Pure SysEx I mean that the file contains exactly the same bytes that an original DX7 sends from it's MIDI port when performing a SysEx dump, and that...
Martin Tarenskeen
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Apr 6, 2008 2:12 pm
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... By the way: A huge collection of DX7 banks in several fileformats I found on ftp.ucsd.edu/midi/patches/DX7 -- Martin...
Martin Tarenskeen
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Apr 6, 2008 2:23 pm
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i see , i knew it was something like that... i think gen edit has a whole bunch of dx-7 patches , maybe he can use gen edit to load old then send to fm8???? ...
FM8 can import DX7 MIDI and Sysex Files, you should find those sound in the convertedsysex folder and soundnames shouldn't contain any special characters. ...
If you can first create a standard midi file from the ksc open mode file within kcs. Then you can quite steem, then import it using the import dialog in fm8. I...
Tim, When I save a .MID file, it does not contain the sysex data!?!? Is there a configuration parameter for this in KCS 4? I tried it in both open and track...
... I seem to recall there is a config txt in kcs showing the paths. If you copy the files to c drive, and either edit that file, or just take it out completly...
