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CUSTOM CONSOLES
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■ Whether or not the message contains a
checksum, and if so, how many bytes the checksum
consists of
■ What the data bit format is (7-bit or 4-bit nibble)
■ Which comes first, the LSB or the MSB
■ The specific bytes within the message that will be
the variable bytes controlled by the control item
(up to 4 bytes)
To set up a control item that generates SysEx, you
must first enter the SysEx data into Digital
Performer, and you have two choices for how you
can do so. You can:
1. Type it in by hand
2. Type in a request message and record it from the
synth
To set up a SysEx slider or knob:
1 Create the slider or knob.
If the SysEx message you’d like to control was
recorded as a bulk dump into a device, be sure to
assign the target to the device.
2 Select it and choose Control Assignment from
the console mini-menu.
3 Choose system exclusive from the Target data
type menu.
4 Click the Set Sysex button.
The Assign Slider Sysex window appears.
If you want to type in the SysEx message, type the
message into the SysEx editor. For more
information about how to use this editor, see
chapter 54, “System Exclusive” (page 673).
If you would like to enter a bulk dump request
message, click Transmit. Digital Performer’s
standard SysEx editor window appears, into which
you can type in the bulk dump message. See the
System Exclusive chapter if you need more
information.
Choosing the variable data bytes
After you have the SysEx message you want in the
SysEx editor display, you can now select which data
bytes are to be the variables that will be controlled
by the slider.
To select the variable data bytes:
1 Choose replacement mode for the edit cursor so
that you can highlight the desired bytes.
2 Select the desired data bytes.
You can select up to four bytes.
3 After the bytes are selected, click the Value
button.
Notice that the bytes now turn into “VV.”