GI20Editor User Manual
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1. Lay Dll D oO aa lel alla Pal No transposition LOF ad hu a 4 EXPRESSION PEDAL Vibrato 1 TRANSMISSION MODE Mono 6 FOOT SWITCH 1 GR Hold 1 SENSITIVITY GROUP Group 1 FA FOOT SWITCH 2 GR Hold 2 PLAY FEEL Normal F1 HA exvoLume CC 11 Expression coarse 51 52 BUTTONS Patch Up Down This page contains 1 Within the MUTE TRANSPOSE panel a set o 6 MUTE options see page 26 of the GI 20 Owner s Manual 2 ES3 within the MUTE TRANSPOSE panel a set o 6 TRANSPOSE gauges see page 23 of the GI 20 Owner s Manual 3 Fi A BEND RANGE panel showing the current related settings for each string see page 23 of the GI 20 Owner s Manual GI20Editor User Manual Version 2 1 0 11 When the IMMEDIATE MODE option in the devices page is turned on the border of this panel is drawn in red This means that the current settings of these controls will be used to build pitch bend range RPN messages sent to SYNTHESIZER OUTPUT Keep in mind that this only concerns the initialization of these parameters in the synthesizer and does not affect the actual pitch bend messages sent by the GI 20 Hi A CC 0 CC 32 PC panel showing the current related settings for each string See page 25 of the GI 20 Owner s Manual where these settings are colle2. GI20Editor user manual version 2 1 0 Copyright 2008 2013 Amedeo Farello All rights reserved GI20Editor User Manual Version 2 1 0 Table of contents o O 3 A O 3 FOR Hide IMPA a E ias 3 FOr theless impadeNt aissar doi 3 Dera COCLINGM airne id ei 4 Synchronized patch SEISCTION cccceccecsecsreeseececureessecueuecesseeuseeausueuseeauseearsecareesarseeureesanees 4 VADES A de en een net ce ta Re ne soi 2h 4 Stings synchronized ea nn 5 CODY DaSte and Swap Patches ara a 5 paste pedal ios cio al 5 BUIKIMDOR expo arrastrarla Genesis nu 5 MIDI remote CON Oli AA ci 6 Changes since version 2 0 0 cccccsececceceeseecncereercnecncutcuececsecseseeaecarsesencersurseeoeeueseesacsesensasansarsenenss 7 ANIDO a r E A E A AO 7 New Lars AUTRE CPP PR a ia 7 RTE EE E E narnia 8 The devices Palin ad AE ea 8 The system Padilla 10 The patches Dades os a 11 The patches 2 page maine 13 Fie Patches Dada 14 MIDI Implementation REfEreNnce cccccscsccssecssecuseecessecuseeausueeuseeaueeearsecureesauseeureesaesusuueenaeeusares 16 GI20Editor User Manual Version 2 1 0 2 Introduction Features GI20Editor is a software editor for the Roland GI 20 GK MIDI guitar interface It s main task is to receive a MIDI bulk dump in the GI 20 manual terminology with all the device s settings display and modify them then send data back to the unit But it can do much more than this to ease your life with this powerful but not so
3. page If TRANSMISSION MODE is mono a group of messages is sent for each string If TRANSMISSION MODE is poly just a single group is sent Normally GI20Editor receives these messages and restransmits them to the SYNTHESIZER OUTPUT But when this option is turned on it discards the CC 0 CC 32 and PC messages coming from the GI 20 and instead synthesizes and transmits other messages that appropriately reflect the current CC 0 CC 32 and PC settings in the editor When this option is turned on these messages are also sent when a CC 0 CC 32 or PC setting in the patches page or the equivalent BANKS PROGRAMS settings in the extra page changes In this case GI20Editor also sends pitch bend range and master fine tuning RPN messages based on the current settings in the editor This is quite useful to quickly test different setups without the need to perform a bulk load every time Finally when this option is turned on the names of the settings involved in the construction of the messages sent from GI20Editor are displayed in red to be easily identified 8 As described in the extra page section each GI20Editor patch can send an optional MIDI system exclusive message when it is selected It is possible that this message engages the target device for a considerable time preventing it from reacting appropriately to subsequently transmitted messages You can then use this field to specify th
4. easily manipulate the numerous parameters of the GI 20 but much time was also spent trying to improve the user experience with it beyond this basic feature GI20Editor User Manual Version 2 1 0 3 From the GI20Editor point of view the heaviest limitation of the GI 20 is its inability to receive or transmit settings individually and without resorting to a particular mode bulk that must be set manually Default document The first thing you can do to overcome this is to receive a bulk dump from the GI 20 save it to a file and save that file as the default document using the Save As Default command of the File menu From this moment on whenever you start the GI20Editor application it will load that document instead of just creating a new empty one To reset the default document to an empty one you can obviously just choose New and then Save As Default Please note that DEMO versions don t load the default document at startup Synchronized patch selection Each time you select a patch in GI20Editor it sends an equivalent command command to the GI 20 unit so that as long as data are kept synchronized all settings for the patch can be checked right away Unfortunately the GI 20 responds to Program Change messages only when it receives them through the 5 pin MIDI connector and ignores them if they come from the USB connection So if you want to use this feature you will be forced to use the MIDI
5. the GI 20 6 MIDI PLAYBACK option see page 17 of the GI 20 Owner s Manual 7 fii A PROGRAM CHANGE MASK option see page 29 of the GI 20 Owner s Manual When the IMMEDIATE MODE option in the devices page is turned on the name of this menu is written in red This means that CC 0 CC 32 and PC messages will be sent to the SYNTHESIZER OUTPUT device according to the current setting of this control 8 A BEND DATA THIN option see page 31 of the GI 20 Owner s Manual 9 A RECEIVE CONTROL CHANGE DATA THIN option see page 32 of the GI 20 Owner s Manual 10 Inside the SSE panel an ON checkbox to switch the Strings Synchronized Editing feature on or off This is equivalent to the Strings Synchronized Editing command of the Edit menu 11 Inside the SSE panel an Options button that opens a window to setup the Strings Synchronized Editing preferences This is equivalent to the Strings Synchronized Editing Options command of the Edit menu The patches 1 page The purpose of this page is to manage settings identified as patch parameters on page 13 of the GI 20 Owner s Manual 80 0 Gl20Editor default SYSTEM PATCHES 1 PATCHES 2 BEND RANGE 7 Halftones EJ T Halftones CC 0 CC 32 PCF 3403 No transposition a ho Me qe CD dl fe pes No transposition No transposition
6. the name of this menu is written in red This means that the current setting of this control will be used to build master fine tuning RPN messages sent to SYNTHESIZER OUTPUT Keep in mind that this only concerns the initialization of these parameters in the synthesizer and does not affect the actual note and pitch bend messages sent by the GI 20 3 A A MIDI BASIC CHANNEL menu see page 14 of the GI 20 Owner s Manual When the IMMEDIATE MODE option in the devices page is turned on the name of this menu is written in red This means that CC 0 CC 32 and PC messages will be sent to the SYNTHESIZER OUTPUT device according to the current setting of this control Keep in mind that this only concerns the sending of CC 0 CC 32 and PC initialization messages and does not affect the actual note messages sent by the GI 20 4 A MIDI CONTROL CHANNEL menu see page 15 of the GI 20 Owner s Manual 5 fii A BEND RANGE MAX menu see page 32 of the GI 20 Owner s Manual When the IMMEDIATE MODE option in the devices page is turned on the name of this menu is written in red This means that the current setting of this control will be used to build pitch bend range RPN messages sent to SYNTHESIZER OUTPUT GI20Editor User Manual Version 2 1 0 10 Keep in mind that this only concerns the initialization of these parameters in the synthesizer and does not affect the actual pitch bend messages sent by
7. to the GI 20 unit to select the patch corresponding to that selected in the editor A short delay can be optionally inserted after the system exclusive message is sent See GI20Editor User Manual Version 2 1 0 13 DELAY AFTER SYSEX MESSAGE in the devices page section 4 Et If the message inserted in field 3 is valid this space will show the actual MIDI system exclusive message that will be sent to the SYNTHESIZER OUTPUT device 5 Ef An AUX CHANNEL CC 0 CC 32 PC panel Each GI20Editor patch can send an optional CC 0 CC 32 PC sequence on a specific channel when it is selected This may be useful to properly setup a synthesizer For example you could send a CC 0 63 CC 32 65 PC 33 sequence to a Yamaha Motif Rack ES already in multi mode to select multi 33 If enabled the CC 0 CC 32 PC messages are sent before the PC message sent to the GI 20 unit to select the patch corresponding to that selected in the editor 6 PATCH display showing the currently selected GI20Editor patch To select another patch use the buttons below the display or click the display and insert a number between 1 and 50 then press enter 7 A COMMENT space to jot down useful information about the patch 8 EX Inside the SSE panel an ON checkbox to switch the Strings Synchronized Editing feature on or off This is equivalent to the Strings Synchronized Editing command of the Edit
8. user friendly piece of hardware Its main features are e easy access to all the GI 20 parameters e save and reload settings as documents allowing backups and fast switching between completely different configurations e import and export GI 20 dump files e patch related copy paste and swap commands plus a powerful paste special function to apply only selected changes possibly extending them to all patches at once e direct connection to a MIDI synthesizer e on the fly substitution of GI 20 bank program messages to allow rapid testing of different sounds without the need to do a bulk load e optional MIDI system exclusive bank program change and control change messages sent at patch selection e string grouping for faster editing e MIDI remote control GI20Editor is a 32 64 bit Intel fat binary that runs on Mac OS X 10 6 6 Snow Leopard and later versions For the impatient Make sure that the GI 20 unit is connected and powered Assign at least the appropriate GI 20 INPUT and GI 20 OUTPUT devices in the devices page using the MIDI Preferences button On the GI 20 unit turn the PARAMETER knob to BULK and press WRITE If everything is properly connected and set GI20Editor will show a progress bar for a few seconds indicating that it is receiving the bulk dump When the bar disappears you can start tweaking For the less impatient This application is obviously designed to
9. 2 Bank Select LSB O X 38 Data Entry LSB O X 80 General Purpose 5 O O GI 20 Foot Switch 2 81 General Purpose 6 O O GI 20 GK Volume 82 General Purpose 7 O O GI 20 S1 switch 83 General Purpose 8 O O GI 20 S2 switch 100 RPN Select LSB O X 101 RPN Select MSB O X 1 31 33 63 64 95 pass through X Program Change O O Channel Pressure X X Pitch Wheel Change pass through X Channel Mode All Sound Off X X Reset All Controllers X X Local Control X X All Notes Off X X System Common System Exclusive O O GI20Editor User Manual Version 2 1 0 16 Functions Transmitted Recognized MIDI Time Code X X Song Position Pointer X Song Select X X Tune Request X X End of Exclusive X X System Real Time Clock X X Start X X Continue X X Stop X X Active Sensing pass through X Reset pass through X GI20Editor User Manual Version 2 1 0 17
10. 5 MIDI remote control D MIDI Preferences GI 20 UNIT CONNECTIONS INPUT DEVICE Network GI 20 Mac NET y GI20Editor recognizes message PC to select the current patch and message CC 16 to select the next or previous patch OUTPUT DEVICE Network Fireface Port 1 iMac NET v I can also recognize and retransmit the CC messages listed at page 15 of the GI 20 Owner s Manual to the GI REMOTE CONTROL OEGE NCEE SST 20 unit Note that for this to work you will have to CHANNEL 3 M RS synchronize the GI20Editor control input channel and the SYNTHESIZER OUTPUT GI 20 MIDI Control Channel or set the latter to omni DEVICE Network Motif iMac NET To open the MIDI preferences dialog select MIDI Cancel OK Preferences from the GI20Editor menu or click the button with the same name in the devices page The REMOTE CONTROL section lets you choose the device and channel from which to receive control messages Please see the MIDI implementation reference section for a complete list of the messages that GI20Editor understands ATTENTION when you assign the devices be careful not to create a loop For example assume you have set the same device both as source for REMOTE CONTROL and as recipient for SYNTHESIZER OUTPUT At this point a patch change on the GI 20 could originate a Program Change message which would be received by GI20Editor and correctly ret
11. GI 20 unit is automatically recognized See page 29 of the GI 20 Owner s Manual to learn how to produce a bulk dump A GI 20 OUTPUT panel showing the MIDI output device currently used to send messages to the GI 20 unit When the chosen device is not available its name is shown in red and the word offline is appended A REMOTE CONTROL panel showing the MIDI input device currently used to receive control messages When the chosen device is not available its name is shown in red and the word offline is appended When this option is turned off all messages received from the REMOTE CONTROL device will be ignored A SYNTHESIZER OUTPUT panel showing the MIDI output device currently used to retransmit all messages received from the GI 20 unit excluding MIDI system exclusive plus other messages directly generated from GI20Editor When the chosen device is not available its name is shown in red and the word offline is appended If a valid device is not available all controls in the panel are disabled 6 When this option is turned off no messages will be sent to the SYNTHESIZER OUTPUT device 7 When a patch change occurs on the GI 20 the unit sends a number of messages to its output First RPN messages to set the pitch bend range and the master fine tuning are sent Then if the PROGRAM CHANGE MASK option is turned off the unit sends the expected CC 0 CC 32 and PC messages from the patches
12. connection at least from the Mac to the GI 20 Synthesizer output Some interesting capabilities are linked to the ability to insert the GI20Editor application between the GI 20 and the synthesizer using the SYNTHESIZER OUTPUT setting in the devices page First this allows you to drive a hardware synthesizer that is connected to your Mac but not directly to the GI 20 without resorting to an additional patch bay application More important this allows GI20Editor to replace some of the messages coming from the GI 20 so that a quick test of different settings those belonging to the CC 0 CC 32 PC panel of the patches page becomes possible without the need to perform a bulk load every time See the IMMEDIATE MODE option of the devices page for more information Later in this manual the M icon is used to identify settings that are influenced by the state of the IMMEDIATE MODE option Finally each patch can optionally send a MIDI system exclusive message and additional bank program change messages to properly setup the synthesizer before actually selecting the patch on the GI 20 Later in this manual the so icon is used to identify settings that are exclusively related to the synthesizer output feature GI20Editor User Manual Version 2 1 0 4 Strings synchronized editing 8 0 0 Strings Synchronized Editing This feature comes in handy when experimenting with When stri hron
13. ctively called PRG CHANGE When the IMMEDIATE MODE option in the devices page is turned on the border of this panel is drawn in red This means that CC 0 CC 32 and PC messages will be sent to the SYNTHESIZER OUTPUT device according to the current settings of these controls 5 An ASSIGN panel showing the current related settings see page 19 of the GI 20 Owner s Manual 6 fil A TRANSMISSION MODE menu see page 14 mono poly modes of the GI 20 Owner s Manual When the IMMEDIATE MODE option in the devices page is turned on the border of this panel is drawn in red This means that CC 0 CC 32 and PC messages will be sent to the SYNTHESIZER OUTPUT device according to the current settings of these controls Keep in mind that this only concerns the sending of CC 0 CC 32 and PC initialization messages and does not affect the actual note messages sent by the GI 20 7 A SENSITIVITY GROUP menu see page 18 of the GI 20 Owner s Manual 8 A PLAY FEEL menu see page 18 of the GI 20 Owner s Manual 9 A PATCH display showing the currently selected GI20Editor patch To select another patch use the buttons below the display or click the display and insert a number between 1 and 50 then press enter 10 Inside the SSE panel an ON checkbox to switch the Strings Synchronized Editing feature on or off This is equivalent to the Strings Synchronized Editing command of th
14. e Edit menu 11 FEF Inside the SSE panel an Options button that opens a window to setup the Strings Synchronized Editing preferences This is equivalent to the Strings Synchronized Editing Options command of the Edit menu GI20Editor User Manual Version 2 1 0 12 The patches 2 page The purpose of this page is to manage some special settings peculiar to the GI20Editor 6e O GI20Editor default DEVICES SYSTEM PATCHES 1 f PATCHES 2 Y BANKS PROGRAMS AUX SYSEX MESSAGE SSE 43 10 7f 00 Oa 00 01 03 3 onE 3 PRES gt 2Violas PRE3 era oi a PRES 2Violas____ y PREZ ContraBass PRE2 ContraBass MIDI STANDARD Yamaha Motif Rack ES FO 43 10 7F 00 OA 00 01 03 F7 4 AUX CHANNEL CC 0 CC 32 PC 413 63 65 33 COMMENT This patch serves as a reference for a proper setup of a Yamaha Motif Rack ES It sends a system exclusive message that sets it to Multi mode then selects multi 33 and finally lets the GI 20 select the instruments for each string channel This page contains 1 Mi A BANKS PROGRAMS panel showing the current related settings for each string These settings are equivalent to those in the CC 0 CC 32 PC panel in the patches page but much more user friendly Instead of simple numbers these controls show what sounds those setti
15. e duration of a pause in milliseconds inserted immediately after sending the system exclusive message and before sending subsequent messages Of course in the absence of a system exclusive message the pause will not be observed 9 A MIDI Preferences button that opens a window for setting the MIDI connections This is equivalent to the command of the same name in the GI20Editor menu 10 A Bulk Load button to send the current settings to the GI 20 unit This button is dimmed when the GI 20 OUTPUT device is not available It displays a simple dialog that reminds you how to setup the unit for this operation to be successful See page 30 of the GI 20 Owner s Manual GI20Editor User Manual Version 2 1 0 9 The system page The purpose of this page is to manage settings identified as system parameters on page 12 of the GI 20 Owner s Manual Gl20Editor default MASTER TUNE PA 440 EJ O moi PLaveack MIDI BASIC CHANNEL 1 JEJ PROGRAM CHANGE MASK MIDI CONTROL CHANNEL 2 JEJ FA O BEND DATA THIN BEND RANGE MAX 12 ___ EJ E M RECEIVE CONTROL CHANGE DATA THIN This page contains 1 EJ A SENSITIVITY panel showing the current input sensitivity settings see page 11 of the GI 20 Owner s Manual 2 fy A MASTER TUNE gauge showing the current reference pitch see page 28 of the GI 20 Owner s Manual When the IMMEDIATE MODE option in the devices page is turned on
16. hange your mind simply select Off in the panel s menu and then select the desired controller type again Inside the SSE panel an ON checkbox to switch the Strings Synchronized Editing feature on or off This is equivalent to the Strings Synchronized Editing command of the Edit menu Inside the SSE panel an Options button that opens a window to setup the Strings Synchronized Editing preferences This is equivalent to the Strings Synchronized Editing Options command of the Edit menu A SLIDERS panel with a menu to choose the way numeric values are to be represented Possible choices are Perc percentage Dec decimal and Hex hexadecimal PATCH display showing the currently selected GI20Editor patch To select another patch use the buttons below the display or click the display and insert a number between 1 and 50 then press enter GI20Editor User Manual Version 2 1 0 15 MIDI Implementation Reference Functions Transmitted Recognized Basic Channel 1 16 1 16 Note Number 0 127 X Channel Voice Note Off event X X Note On event O X Polyphonic Key Pressure X X Control Change 0 Bank Select MSB O X 6 Data Entry MSB O X 16 Patch Up Down X 0 63 down 64 127 up 18 General Purpose 3 O O GI 20 Expression Pedal 19 General Purpose 4 O O GI 20 Foot Switch 1 3
17. he devices page The purpose of this page is to manage the application s MIDI connections plus some less frequently used options GI20Editor User Manual Version 2 1 0 800 GI20Editor default GI 20 INPUT Network Gl 20 iMac NET This is where GI20Editor will wait for the MIDI messages sent by the GI 20 unit REMOTE CONTROL Driver IAC Bus 1 ch 3 EJ This is where Gl20Editor will wait for MIDI control messages PC CC Y ENABLED EY SYNTHESIZER OUTPUT Network Motif iMac NET 5 This will receive messages coming from the GI 20 unit plus additional messages from Gl20Editor some of the Gl 20 messages will be modified when IMMEDIATE MODE is on v ENABLED KE Y IMMEDIATE MODE DELAY AFTER SYSEX MESSAGE msec F 50 GI 20 OUTPUT Network Gl 20 iMac NET FI This is where GI20Editor will send MIDI messages directed to the GI 20 unit SysEx PC and CC The Bulk Load button will appear grayed if this device is missing Warning the Gl 20 reacts to MIDI Program Change messages only when connected using a MIDI 5 pin cable not USB MIDI Preferences E The page contains 1 GI 20 INPUT panel showing the MIDI input device currently used to receive messages from the GI 20 unit When the chosen device is not available its name is shown in red and the word offline is appended Please note that a bulk dump coming from the
18. ication preferences folder in Library Application Support before you launch the new version the default document is not just a reference to some user specified document anymore instead it is a concrete document residing in the application sandbox to keep using the default document from previous versions just open it normally then choose the Save As Default command of the File menu the Open Recent menu remembers documents opened during the current session but not those that were opened in previous sessions since the standard version and the demo version use different sandboxes they do not share preferences anymore New features the patches page is now called patches 1 while the extra page is called patches 2 there is a new patches 3 page with 8 panels each containing 6 sliders one for each string you can use these to send specific MIDI Control Change messages to the synthesizer output device each time a patch is selected or at any time moving the sliders when immediate mode is on e the system and the patches pages now contain a checkbox to switch the strings GI20Editor User Manual Version 2 1 0 synchronized editing SSE feature on or off and a button to access its options User interface The application interface is organized in five pages devices system IN IN patches 1 patches 2 and patches 3 T
19. ing options Copy paste and swap patches With the Copy Patch and Paste Patch commands of the Edit menu the settings of a patch can be easily duplicated As the name implies the Swap Patches command exchanges settings between two patches These commands are only available when the current page is either patches or extra Paste special The Paste Special of the Edit menu allows you to paste only some of the settings of a patch It opens a window where each logical group of settings can be individually selected and you can also choose to paste the selected settings to all patches at once Bulk import amp export GI20Editor saves its documents in the gie proprietary file format For obvious reasons this format does not coincide with that of a bulk dump file directly produced by the GI 20 that contains just a few MIDI system exclusive messages and that GI20Editor identifies as syx See pages 29 through 31 of the GI 20 Owner s Manual to learn about bulk dump and bulk load operations If you need to load an existing bulk dump into GI20Editor or for any reason you want to save the current settings in this format you can use the Import GI 20 bulk and Export GI 20 bulk of the File menu Just remember that this format won t contain any of the settings found in the extra page of Gi20Editor GI20Editor User Manual Version 2 1 0
20. ized editing i bled ach t i i j Morales propor le applied Dalernesbebnaig iie Strings related settings Instead of being forced to same group individually set the parameters of each string it is Y enabled possible to have a change to any one of the strings to be STRING 1 belongs to group A zh automatically applied to the others STRING 2 belongs to group A E The involved settings are SENSITIVITY in the system o group 7 page TRANSPOSE BEND RANGE CC 00 CC 32 and PC in the patches page and BANKS BERING 5 belongs io group B 7 PROGRAMS in the extra page STRING 6 belongs to group B a As often happens to define different settings for the arca Conti strings you can divide them into 3 distinct groups If SSE is enabled and a string belongs to a group all its relevant controls are drawn with a specific color which is green for group A blue for group B and yellow for group C STRING 4 _belongs to group A To open a window to setup your Strings Synchronized Editing preferences select the Strings Synchronized Editing Options command from the Edit menu You can also just enable or disable this option with the Strings Synchronized Editing command from the same menu Later in this manual the icon is used to identify settings that are influenced by the state and the configuration of the strings synchronized edit
21. menu 9 Inside the SSE panel an Options button that opens a window to setup the Strings Synchronized Editing preferences This is equivalent to the Strings Synchronized Editing Options command of the Edit menu The patches 3 page The purpose of this page is to manage some special settings peculiar to the GI20Editor 800 Gl20Editor default PATCHES 3 SLIDERS J Perc al This page contains 1 ETS M 8 panels each containing a menu to select a specific MIDI control change message controller and 6 sliders to define the control value for each string These CC messages are sent to the synthesizer output device each time the patch is GI20Editor User Manual Version 2 1 0 14 selected If immediate mode is on you can also move the sliders to send the messages in real time Select Off in a panel s menu to avoid sending the related messages The sliders aspect changes according to the type of controller they refer to So sliders referring to Portamento on off CC 65 are shown like switches while those referring to Portamento Time CC 5 are shown like actual sliders Depending on the controller s type some synthesizers may interpret the associated control value as absolute or relative to a default setting This is why when you assign one of those controller type to a panel you will be asked to choose the way the sliders will be drawn If you c
22. ngs actually correspond to according to the current state of the MIDI STANDARD menu When the IMMEDIATE MODE option in the devices page is turned on the border of this panel is drawn in red This means that CC 0 CC 32 and PC messages will be sent to the SYNTHESIZER OUTPUT device according to the current settings of these controls 2 A MIDI standard menu allows to choose the preferred one between those supported by GI20Editor GM General MIDI Roland GS Yamaha XG and Yamaha Motif Rack ES so Each GI20Editor patch can send an optional MIDI system exclusive message when it is selected This may be useful to properly setup a synthesizer For example you could send a FO 43 10 7F 00 OA 00 01 03 F7 sequence to a Yamaha Motif Rack ES to switch it to multi mode This editable field only accepts valid MIDI system exclusive sequences that is 1 or 2 character hexadecimal values in the range 00 7F separated by a single space It also accepts two special characters and that are useful to automatically generate and insert a Roland checksum byte in the sequence Just put a character to mark the beginning of the sequence to be used to compute the checksum and a to mark its end In the final sequence the character will be replaced by the checksum If not empty the MIDI system exclusive sequence is sent before any AUX CHANNEL CC 0 CC 32 PC panel messages and the PC message sent
23. ransmitted to SYNTHESIZER OUTPUT However if the SYNTHESIZER OUTPUT device were set to relay incoming messages the message would be received again by the REMOTE CONTROL input causing a patch change in GI20Editor which would send the same message to the GI 20 and so on Turning off the ENABLED options of the REMOTE CONTROL and SYNTHESIZER OUTPUT panels in the devices page may help in detecting and solving MIDI loop problems MIDI is a trademark of MIDI Manufacturers Association Roland is a trademark of Roland Corporation Yamaha XG Motif Rack are trademarks of Yamaha Corporation GI20Editor User Manual Version 2 1 0 6 Changes since version 2 0 0 Sandboxing As prescribed by the Mac App Store rules GI20Editor is now a sandboxed application Discussing the OS X sandbox in detail is beyond the scope of this manual but I just want to point out that to make the application compatible with the sandbox AND maintain all its functions unaltered would have meant losing compatibility with OS X 10 6 Snow Leopard something I was not willing to do So these are the consequences of sandboxing e the preferences file stored by GI20Editor versions up to and including 2 0 0 will be moved to its new location inside the application sandbox the first time you start the application if for any reason you want to keep your old preferences file you must duplicate it and store it away from the now obsolete appl
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