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- Hacker News
- When I decided to back up my old gear, I dropped some dough on MidiQuest because commercial software with a long track record and active support is something for which I will exchange a moderate amount of money.by brudgers
- The site has a headline about halfway down the page, which apparently gets machine-translated to the reader's assumed language, probably based on GeoIP as my browser is set to request pages in English. This doesn't work very well... the Finnish-language version of the headline makes very little sense, the second word reads as either a weird homophobic slur with a typo or just plain nonsense.by onre
- Apologies for off-topic, but I feel like I'm losing my mind here. Did I not read this same post (with the same comments) several days ago, only now HN is saying that it was submitted today, and all the comments are from today?
HN search and Wayback Machine [1] seems to confirm, so maybe I've not gone completely off my rocker?
by AlecMurphy - It listed my LXR-02 (connected over usb/web midi) as "Supported" after I connected it, but it did not appear in the list of synths under "backup my synth", nor did "capture soundbank" do anything.
Speaking of the LXR-02, I just just finished this MIDI/patch editor: https://lxr02.greg.technology/ (free of course) - source code link in the footer
by gregsadetsky - > iCloud for sysex
I just have sysex librarian installed and pointed to my iCloud directory. It sure works.
by doawoo - I've been working on a similar-ish set of tools for my old synths and have been pleasantly surprised to find that synth manuals used to include the full SysEx spec for the synth. Most synths/controllers today don't come with a manual, and rarely provide all the information you'd need to create software to interact with it. They just expect you to use their shitty software, or worse, their mobile app, which will not work in ten or twenty years.by SwellJoe
- Neat. That's really fancy.
I built something similar to manage sysex messages and patch libraries for my digitech guitar modeling workstation with webmidi: https://v0.app/templates/digitech-gnx3000-sysex-tool-GC5LzXA...
My favorite part of this so far has been spanning a range of parameters in seconds that would have taken a much longer time with gdigi and a completely unrealistic amount of time with the built-in knobs.
I own that FPGA now in a way I didn't before.
by itomato - So have many other people. What makes yours special? The vibecoding? The sloppy marketing site is really off-putting.
I'd honestly be curious what those “83+ vintage & modern synths” are but you don't even provide a list…
Also, what the hell is a “Hex-to-ASCII Parser”…