Emax (1) Realtime Sysex Control - It works! :-)

[micromoog]

Yesterday i tried to make a little Emax Editor...and it works fine!
It's not complete now, but my favorite parameters are inside.

With the RMG-Page of C-LAB Notator (Atari St) you can make it very fast (needs 30min).

As slow as Sysex with a Matrix 1000 etc. but it's easy to edit the "Analog area" of the Presets!
For "real" realtime it's better to control by CC with MIDI A or B for Cut-Off an Q etc.




Two exampels of the code, one i found at the yahoogroups, that was the inspiration for me to do this:

VCF-Envelope Decay (HEX-Code): F0 18 02 1A 00 57 02 29 XX F7

F0 - system exclusive
18 - E-mu id
02 - Emax id
1A - exclusive command to change voice parameter
00 - the lowest key number
57 - the highest key number (87 in decimal)
02 - affect both voices, primary and secondary
29 - Decay-Parameter Filter
XX - Value from the fader (0 to 31 in decimal)
F7 - end of sysex message

VCF-Cut Off (HEX-Code): F0 18 02 1A 00 57 02 1F XX F7

F0 - system exclusive
18 - E-mu id
02 - Emax id
1A - exclusive command to change voice parameter
00 - the lowest key number
57 - the highest key number (87 in decimal)
02 - affect both voices, primary and secondary
1F - Filter cut-off parameter
XX - Value from the fader (0 to 120 in decimal)
F7 - end of sysex message

the specs you can find here:
http://www.emulatorarchive.com/assets/PDF/Emax%20MIDI.pdf

[Elmbeatz]

Science 

[micromoog]

Retro Science  


Atari doesn't have "Drag'n Drop", maybe you will be faster with windows or mac by creating something like this.
You have only to change the parameter# at the string an the "fader"-range (0..15, 0...31, 0...120 etc.).

The RMG-Page is a standard tool which is coming with the notator-programm...it's the grandfather of logic's environment.
You have only to select a fader and write the string in the Line with the $-Symbol (here it is shown in decimal) and make a comment in the small line above the faders - that's all!

[muetze]

years ago. i programmed a sysex setup into my Peavey 1600X for the emax... as i remember it worked great to tweak the hell out of the beast... (of course the emax 1 is  slow and "stepped" when it comes to synthesizer sounds because of the digital controlled SSM chip ...)

i think i will free my emax 1 from the dust and the Peavey and check if i have the sysex dump for the 1600x somewhere...

Is it the same with the emulator II... that if i use a realy slow envelope setting on the VCF and i high resonance that i can "hear" the steps?

[micromoog]

That's on nearly all hybrid 80s stuff

[zerobit]

Cool. Is it possible to fetch the initial values from the Emax? (Is there a sysex spec for this device?)

[esynthesist]

Is there a sysex spec for this device?

The SYSEX specs for Emax-I can be downloaded from Emulatorarchive:
http://www.emulatorarchive.com/Manuals/manuals.html

(the SYSEX specs for Emax-II, which are slightly different, can be found on the Emax Yahoo group)