Hi list, I made an environment where a sysex fader sends a dump request command to my synth, works great. But every time I record the dump in Logic i get the command back as well. What's recorded is the "dump request command" followed by the dump. Now, this sysex fader isn't cabled into the sequencer and thru, it's set to a midi port object. Is the fader event recorded regardless of this ? Waldorf (the synth maker) says it's nonsense to receive back the command as well. Thanks in advance: Darth

On a fine day, 28-04-2003, Darth wrote: >I made an environment where a sysex fader sends a dump request command >to my synth, works great. >But every time I record the dump in Logic i get the command back as well. >What's recorded is the "dump request command" followed by the dump. >Now, this sysex fader isn't cabled into the sequencer and thru, it's set to >a midi port object. >Is the fader event recorded regardless of this ? This is Logic's behaviour: when you're recording, ALL fader moves are recorded, whether they're cabled into something or not. So if you're in record mode, and send out a sysex message, the sysex message itself gets recorded as well. This is confusing behaviour. Very often it comes in handy -- i.e. it allows you to record fader moves without any cabling needed, which is pleasant. However, in situations such as yours it would be equally pleasant if you could switch off this behaviour as it's bloody annoying to get a recorded sequence with redundant events. There's no way around it, I'm afraid. The best you could do is to control the sysex fader with a CC fader. I.e. have the sysex fader's In definition set to e.g. CC7, and cable a CC7 fader into it. Use the CC7 fader for on-screen control instead of the sysex fader. That way your recorded sequence will contain a CC7 event plus the correct sysex dump, instead of the dump request plus the dump. I thin this method is easier, since if you want to delete the redundant event, it's easier to distinguish a CC from a sysex, than it is to distinguish 2 sysex events from each other. -- Hendrik Jan Veenstra <h@...> Omega Art: http://www.omega-art.com/