MIDI Devices

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MIDI devices
Defining a SysEx device – a tutorial
In this tutorial, we will define a new MIDI device that pro-
vides access to the parameters of a Roland JV-1080 in
the following steps:
• “Creating a new MIDI device” on page 28
• “Creating subnodes” on page 28
• “Creating several subnodes at once” on page 29
• “Adding parameters” on page 29
• “Defining SysEx messages” on page 30
• “Editing the Formula” on page 31
• “Editing Scale Tune 1” on page 32
• “Adding parameters to another node” on page 32
Creating a new MIDI device
1. To create a new MIDI device, pull down the Devices
menu, open the MIDI Device Manager and click on “Install
Device”.
2. In the dialog that appears, select “Define New…” and
click OK.
3. The Create New MIDI Device dialog appears. Set it up
as shown in the following picture:
4. Click OK.
Now, the Device window will open with an empty Roland JV-1080 de-
vice displayed to the left.
Creating subnodes
Now, you need to create subnodes (subsections) for the
device.
• If subnodes are added directly to the device node with-
out channels or subnodes being added, the MIDI connec-
tions are not automatically created.
In this case, the variables column remains empty for the new channel and
the Device panel will not send data to the MIDI device.
1. Click the “Add Subnodes” button, and in the dialog
that appears, enter “System” in the Name field.
“System” can be found as a separate table in the MIDI
definition part of the JV-1080 manual. It’s almost always a
good idea to create a separate device node for each table
in the MIDI definition of a device.
2. When you click OK, the new subnode is added in the
Device window.
This is the “root” of
the device, which
stands for the de-
vice as a whole.