Hi, In my experience of Roland gear, no special handshake is needed: just send the message and the synth accepts it.
The interesting thing about the messages is the "checksum" at the end of the messages. This is true for the JV series, XV series and Fantom series of synths - I do not know about others. My setup, for interest: * Korg X5 synth - which I mainly use as a controller now. * Roland Fantom XR, my main hardware synth * I also have Native Instruments Komplete as a software synth. Hope this helps. God bless, James. ----Original Message---- From: [email protected] Date: 19/10/2019 22:51 To: "QWS list"<[email protected]> Subj: RE: QWS List AW: Hello to the list I'll deal with handshaking first. Roland devices ping the sysex source on a regular basis and they won't send or receive anything until their ping is answered. So it goes like this: You start to send a system exclusive message. The Roland device sends back a query. Your device responds to that query. This happens multiple times in a system exclusive transaction. They see this as a feature, not a bug, but it does mean that data transfers to/from Roland devices need to be done using a patch editor and or librarian. So far I haven't found an accessible one of those. My studio has been mothballed since December of 2009. I need a 1.5-2 car garage, enclosed and finished out, to have enough room for everything. (drums, sound gear, mixers, etc.) I'll limit this to MIDI gear since that's the topic of conversation, or those things I'm looking to get MIDI connected in the future. This is by port, so I can keep things straight in my mind. Port 1: Oberheim Matrix 6r, Roland MT-32, 2 Yamaha TX802s, Sequential Prophet T8, Moog The Source, Oberheim OB3 Port 2: E-mu Proteus 1, 4 Kurzweil 1000gx modules, Alesis D4 Port 3: 2 Ensoniq EEPSMs Port 4: Oberheim Matrix 1000, Roland D-110, Ensoniq MR Rack Port 5: 4 Kurzweil Pro1s, Kurzweil K1000 SE MkII Extended, fully upgraded to a Pro76, 4 Kurzweil Pro2s Port 6: Novation A-Station, Novation Bass Station, Yamaha DX7IIFD, Alesis DM Pro, Proteus 1XR, and Korg Wavestation SR. Port 7: All the FX gear in the audio FX rack. Port 8: Roland JV-1080, Korg M1, room for expansion Port 9: Kurzweil K2600EX Controllers: Kurzweil k2600EX and K1000 SE MkII Extended, Sequential Prophet T8, Korg M1, and M-Audio Axiom-61. Two guitar controllers will also be added to the mix soon so I can stop having to simulate strums and chords on a keyboard. This is a static environment when it's up and running -- I don't change patches in the machines, instead relying on the "brute force approach" Rick Wakeman used to have the sounds I want to use on hand. The rig makes sense to me, but probably would be confusing to most other people at first, as it evolved from one port to two and then four and then eight. Since the rig has been mothballed I've used software to get as much of the same sounds as possible. I'm missing the Oberheim stuff and several others, but the goal is to get as much simulated as possible so I don't have to carry a rack with me when performing live. I still want the studio up and running again though, as software doesn't have all those output stages that are designed to make the synthesis/sample playback engine sound the best it can, and there's something awe inspiring when you hear about 80 rack spaces of gear playing for you. Sent from my HAL 9000 in transit to Jupiter -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Niklas Rittinghaus Sent: Saturday, October 19, 2019 4:22 PM To: QWS list <[email protected]> Subject: QWS List AW: Hello to the list Hi, thank you first for the detailed and friendly answers and the warm welcome. I am happy to see that I am not the only one who likes Hardware. I am in a whats app Group with blind musicians, but they mostly use Software, but I like the Advantages Hardware has and I haven’t to use the PC every time I want to make Music. At the Moment I own the Roland BK-5, the Yamaha genos and a few Little synths, the bigger ones are the Korg microkorg and the arturia Minibrute 2. I like the Volca series and the Monotrons as well for what they are. What I realy like About smaller synths is that they are often underrated in the Things they can do. I still have some Mixers and FX boxes but I can’t exactly remember the Models at the Moment. I luckily had the opportunity to have a room wich was unused in my flat so I began to make a home Studio out of it. I realy like this Hobby, since Music and experementing with sounds is simply fun and realy interesting. What is your Setup guys? I am open for recomendations regarding synths and such wich can be used as a blind Person, since from time to time i buy some new or other devices if affordable. But in General, I don’t make Music as a Profession, it is a fun and interesting Hobby to me and so I don’t have to take it too serious and the best is, I can do and produce what I like, not what the masses want. @nicole: What do you mean with Handshaking? And are there Solutions to this on Roland devices? Looks as I have found the Right place over here, cool. 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