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The MIDI editors
Editing SysEx messages
• To open the MIDI SysEx Editor for an event, click in the Comments column for the
event in the List Editor/Project Browser.
The display shows the entire message on one or several lines. SysEx messages
always begin with F0 and end with F7 with a number of arbitrary bytes in between. If
the message contains more bytes than fit on one line, it continues on the next. The
Address indication to the left helps you find out on which position in the message a
certain value resides.
You can edit all values except for the first (F0) and last one (F7).
Selecting and viewing values
To select a value, either click on it or use the cursor keys. The selected byte is
displayed in various formats:
- In the main display, values are shown in hexadecimal format.
- To the right of this, values are shown in ASCII format.
- At the bottom of the dialog, the selected value is shown in ASCII, binary, and
decimal formats.
Editing a value
The selected value can be edited directly in the main display or in the ASCII, decimal,
and binary displays. Just click on it and type in the desired value as usual.
Adding and deleting bytes
Using the Insert and Delete buttons or their corresponding computer keyboard keys,
you can add and delete bytes from the message. Inserted data will appear before the
selection.
• To delete the complete SysEx message, select it in the List Editor and press
[Delete] or [Backspace].
Importing and exporting data
The Import and Export buttons allow you to get SysEx data from disk and to export the
edited data to a file. The file has to be in “MIDI SysEx” (.syx) binary format. Only the
first dump in a SYX file will be loaded.
Ö Do not confuse this format with MIDI files, which have the extension .mid.