*********************************** AM/FM ***********************************     89     (EIGHTY-NINE)     SYNTH-PROTOCOLS     FOR MUSIC-X        Most of you probably think this is some sort of sick joke; but no - this is just AM/FM doing it's best to please it's readers again. Never before has such a magnificent collection of Music-X Synth Protocols been wrapped together; an incredible 89 protocols on the same disk. Legal stuff Let's get this out of the way first: These protocols have been collected from various sources, and are NOT programmed by the AM/FM team. Instead, we have compiled those that we found were "freely distributable". Neither we here at AM/FM _or_ the programmers of these protocols are in ANY way responsible for ANY loss of data from your synths. Fiddling with SysEx transmission can easily cause loss of synth sounds, patches and sequencer data, so please be careful when using these protocols - and if the worst thing happens - we are not to blame. You are using them at your own risk. What are they for?? For those of you who aren't sure of what a "Music-X Synth Protocol" is, and what it's for, I will try to explain... Music-X is a popular MIDI music software package for the Amiga (I'm sure you all knew that!), but in addition to being a sequencer, Music-X also has a lot of extra features making it a complete MIDI workstation package, not just a sequencer. For example, Music-X can work as a storage center for your synthesizer sounds. You can also store the sounds together with each songs, so that when you load a MIDI-song from your disk, all the correct sounds for your synths are also stored in that file together with the song - and all you have to do is to send these sounds as MIDI SysEx data to your synth - and they will be perfectly set up to play the song you're about to play. The storage and transmission of synth sounds to and from Music-X is done in the Music-X "Librarian" page. But because each synthesizer uses a different "SysEx language", Music-X needs to know how to communicate with each synth. And this is where these "Protocols" come in. Music-X can't communicate with your synth, unless you have the correct "protocol" for the synthesizer in question. Once you have the correct protocol for your synth, you can load this into Music-X, and Music-X will be ready to receive sounds from your synth - or send them back out. If any synth sounds are are stored in the "Librarian" page, you can choose to save these sounds with your "Performance", when you save the song. Just tick the Librarian option when you save your Performance. Ok, that was some background info - now onto how to use the protocols... How to unpack and use the protocols First of all, the Protocols are stored in the "Utilities" directory of this disk, and they are heavily compressed in a compression-format called LHA. They are also made in a so called "Self Extracting" file, so that it will be easier for you to decompress and use the protocols. In the "Using AM/FM" article on the main menu, you will find a quite detailed way to handle Self-extracting, LHA-compressed packages, but here's a quick version. Open a Shell or CLI and type everything that's in bold: 1. Format a new disk Format drive DF1: NAME Protocols 2. CD your way to this disk. CD Protocols: 3. RUN the file "Protocols.run" in the Utilities directory on this AM/FM-disk AMFM13:Utilities/Protocols.run 4. Watch as the protocols extract from the LHA-file - directories etc. will also be created automatically. This will take a couple of minutes or so. 5. Your disk now contains all the protocols in their respective directories etc. List of protocols: Ok, enough smalltalk - here's a complete list of the protocols in the package. Enjoy! YAMAHA YAMAHA/FB-01 FB01.VOICES FB01.CONFIG YAMAHA/TX802 TX802.VOICES TX802.BULK YAMAHA/DX7 DX7.VOICES DX7-SPECIAL.VOICES DX7-SPECIAL.BULK YAMAHA/TG55 TG55.4ELVOICES TG55.2ELVOICES TG55.1ELVOICES YAMAHA/DX7II DX7II.PERFORMANCE.BUFF DX7II.PERFORMANCE.32 DX7II.SYSTEMSET-UP DX7II.SCALING.BUFFER DX7II.MICTUNEDBUFF DX7II.MICROTUNING.BUFF YAMAHA/DX100 DX100.VOICES YAMAHA/TX81Z TX81Z.BULK.VOICE TX81Z.BULK.PERFORMANCE TX81Z.BULK.MICTUNOCT TX81Z.BULK.EFFECT TX81Z-0.voices TX81Z.VOICES TX81Z.BULK.PROGCHG TX81Z-1.VOICES VFX VFX.PROG VFXDUMP.MULT SEQUENTIAL-CIRCUITS SEQUENTIAL-CIRCUITS/PROPHET-600 PROPHET-600.PATCH ROLAND ROLAND/HS-80 ROLAND HS-80 SINGLE PATCH ROLAND HS-80 BULK DUMP ROLAND/D-50 D-50.VOICES ROLAND/MT-32 MT-32.TIMBRES MT-32.PATCH ROLAND/U-220 U-220.VOICES ROLAND/MKS-50 MKS-50.VOICES ROLAND/GP-16 GP-16.VOICES ROLAND/D-5 D-5KLUDGE.TONES D-5.TONES ROLAND/D-110 D-110C.VOICES D-110.VOICES D-110B.VOICES D-110A.VOICES QUESTIONAL QVERBPATCH PROTEUSPATCH OPCODE OPCODE.WRITESMPTE OPCODE.STOPWRITINGSMPTE OBERHEIM OBERHEIM/MATRIX-6 MATRIX-6.VOICES MATRIX-6.MASTER MATRIX-6.VOICES.ii MATRIX-6.SPLIT OBERHEIM/MATRIX-10 MATRIX-1000.voices OBERHEIM/M12 M12.SINGLE M12.MULTI MIDIMAN SYNCMANSMPTETEST SYNCMANIII+.TEMPOMAP KORG KORG/P3 KORGP3.COMBIDUMP KORG/DS-8 DS8.ALLCOMBIDUMP KORGDS-8.VOICES DS-8.VOICE.SINGLE DS-8.1VOICE KORG/M1 M1.VOICES M1.prog M1.COMBI M1 PROG LIBRARIAN M1 COMBI LIBRARIAN KAWAI KAWAI/K1&K1_MKII K1.SINGLE K1.MULTI K1.I.SINGLE K1-II.ONESINGLE K1SINGLE K1-ii.ONEMULTI K1-II.ALLBLOCK KAWAI/K5 K5.VOICES KAWAI/K1R K1R-SINGLE K1R-MULTI K1.BLOK.VOICES K1.PACH.VOICES K1.MULTI.SINGLE KAWAI/K4 K4.SINGLE K4.MULTI K4.EFFECT K4.DRUM KAWAI/K3 K3AGAIN.VOICES K3.VOICES DIGITALMUSICCO MX-8.SETUPS CASIO CASIO/VZ-1 VZ1.MULTICHANNEL VZ-1 MULTI CHANNEL CASIO/CZ-1000 AND CZ-101 CZ-1000.VOICES CASIO/CZ-230S CZ-230S.VOICES CASIO/CZ-1 *********************************** AM/FM ***********************************