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Am 17.09.2005 um 17:49 schrieb Gene Schwartz:
> I noticed that you are the author of the Fizmo editor.
>
> I would like to get a copy of the Fizmo sysex documentation, which
> (I'm
> assuming) you must have had in order to write the editor. I am
> concerned
> that at some point, the sounddiver editor will no longer run, and I
> have
> someone who is would consider to write an editor if he had this
> documentation.
>
>I'm here :-)
>Sorry, I don't have one complete document called "Fizmo Sysex
>documentation" either. I do have a Sysex documentation for the
MR/ZR
>series, and when I made the module (or rather extended the existing
>MR/ZR module) I had a lot of e-mail correspondence with the people at
>Ensoniq who explained the differences to me. The Sysex doc for the MR/
>ZR is on the web somewhere I think. Fizmo and MR/ZR are quite similar
>under the hood. The main differences are (AFAIR) that the Fizmo has a
>fixed number of oscillators (four) while this number can vary on the
>MR/ZR; there's no such thing as "performances" on the Fizmo,
some
>parameters have extended ranges (filter type for instance), soma
>additional parameters (arpeggiator etc) and so on. If you compare the
>MR and the Fizmo in SoundDiver things will get clearer. There's also
>a model and family code in the header of each Sysex message which is
>of course different for the Fizmo. This can easily be found out using
>SoundDiver's MIDI monitor.
>If you or the person who is making that editor has any specific
>questions I can try to help, but please consider it's quite a while
>ago that I was into that stuff...
>Ingo
Thank you - this is certainly WAY better than nothing. I'm not sure that
with this info I can get the ball rolling, but I hope so. The developer does
think that the fizmo is a very cool synth.
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