alan933

This worked great with Bome, was able to send and receive and it verified accurately. (while I was wrapping presents). Cakewalk sysex option is dead to me ha

Ok I believe I solved it. I found another obscure post about sysex too fast and they used Bome SendSX. It's a tiny windows 3.1 looking program that handles devices and sends/receieves. I used the default speed of 980 b/s and I saw the midi lights on the e-mu blinking fast but no error at end. It took some time and the first bank I tried 3 did not seem to restore original sound after I made a change but when I did it with bank 2 it did restore it. I'm going to try a receive with this app and see if it works better. Not trusting Cakewalk to back my hard earned data from now on. Thanks for the help and interest , and wow, someone else has a jurrasic e-mu p2500 fascinating! Merry Christmas!

Thanks for the replies. I got that one to work using the method I mentioned, maybe something corrupted on last bank receive? I always save the .sys to file if I don't save the .cwp Anyways, now I have a different problem going the other way. When I try to send sysex back to E-mu I get "Error ! Code = 000 Sysex: too fast" My delay on the e-mu is 1000 ms but I assume that is for the send to cakewalk. What would determine cakewalk send speed? Is there a way to slow that? Oh , I will add, I did receive a single bank patch to sysex then changed a single param in the patch and sent it back to e-mu and it restored it. That worked, but not an entire bank. Get message above. ?? Crazy problems dealing with 20 y.o. equipment.

Ok here is a new piece of puzzle, possible work around? If I close cakewalk without saving my most recent sysex receives and then re-open and then do it again. It works. Not sure why.

This works fine for my synth sound banks which are quite large and each takes several minutes to complete. but I have a problem with a multi-setup receive that I have done before, its the same size as the one I did before but I get this message now for it. Any ideas on what is causing this? First this Then this

oh after cicking about 50 more times I need to enable prochannel Show first. Sorry I need graphics

When I created this EQ I thought I just double clicked it and it opened in a bigger window and I could change it. Now I am double clicking on it and it won't open. How do I open this? It's things like this where I think I learn the program and then try to use it again and the behavior for one simple thing is seemingly different that drives me nuts.

never mind , figured it out, somehow the output on the A bus got set to 3&4 on my midi interface when its using 1&2. I don't know how this happened when I saved and closed the app last time after I just checked it.

I was recording and playing this project the last time it was open. Today I see the meters registering during playback but no sound out. The tracks are not muted. When I export the project (3 audio tracks) to a wav file it plays fine. I opened another similar project with 3 audio tracks and it plays fine. What setting is preventing the audio out? Even when I play the plug-in instrument tracks they register on meters but no sound. The plug-in instruments have sound on the other project

problem is its multiple clips but that ALT + mouse wheel is super helpful , thanks.

But can't you see in screen shot I have track 2 as active. So why does paste put it to track three? Sorry for late reply, too much home and work stuff to deal with.

IT pastes it to track 3 instead of track 2 . This is very confusing.

Ok thanks, but do you mean the blocks on the right? If so I have tried to select those in past with a mouse but end up moving them with the cursor , the having to undo. The interface seems clumsy for selecting those.

This should be the easiest thing in the world but I have been stuck on this for 30 minutes trying to figure it out. After selecting the track and then the from-thru measures , in this case 3-26 , If I go to edit, the only option enabled is "cut" . "copy" is not enabled. A few times I got copy to work but it would paste to a different track even if I selected only one track. What are the mysterious steps to do this?

Point taken. To share, I found this a great short cut because if you use youtube to learn songs you wil notice that hitting the left arrow on your keyboard will back the cursor up to a previous point in the video. In cakewalk I wanted to setup the arrow keys to do the same thing with measure backup/advance (instead of Ctrl+PageUp/Down). I believe I just selected the key on the left and double clicked the value on the right. Voila, Cakewalk works like youtube.