Sad Skelton

Sad Skelton will be the featured music at the preview of a new art exhibit opening of “Cultivating Care: Life and Treatment of London’s Asylum“.  This is also the first event of the newly created “Museum Underground” program designed to cater to a younger audience.

Show should start around 9:30pm with the ribbon cutting and preview of the exhibit at midnight.

Takes place at Museum London, 421 Ridout Street North in London Ontario.

Hope to see you there!

Facebook Event - Friday Night at the Museum
Museum London

I’ve always had a hard time with overwriting presets on any of my instruments.  “What if I need that one!”.  Like I’m actually going to need a

Seeing MIDI hex code made me think about Reboot

synthesized birth chirp sound.  And yet I still can’t bring myself to overwrite them.

It has become standard with virtual instruments, DAWs and everything computer that you can save pretty much everything.  However I still lament the prevalence of the MIDI standard of 25 some odd years.  But there is hope even with that.

It seems my Nord Lead 2x has the ability to dump all settings as a MIDI system exclusive message.  I just need to find a way to store that data.  Enter MIDI-OX.

MIDI-Ox eases the pain of working with MIDI, if only slightly.  It at least gives an insight into what is going on as well as tools to modify and conform MIDI to do your bidding.

To capture a MIDI SysEx message:

1. Open MIDI-Ox
2. From the View menu select SysEx. This will open a window with 2 panes.  The top one for entry (if your so daring as to actually write or modify SysEx HEX code) and the bottom for receiving.
3. From the SysEx menu select Receive Manual Dump
4. Send SysEx message from the keyboard.  On the Nord Lead 2x you do this by holding the shift button and clicking Dump One for one program or performance, or Dump all for the entire bank.
5. Click done.  Your program info should be now displayed in the bottom pane.
6. Select Command Window > Save to save to a text file.

It’s amazing how little amount of data there is to make up the settings for a single Nord Lead 2x program.  Now I finally can save an unlimited number of sounds.  Here is the sound I saved.  Looks grand!

F0 33 0F 04 00 00 08 04 04 04 07 04 0A 03 00 00 04 02 00 00 00 00 06 04 0E 04 01 04 0A 05 00 00 06 03 0E 07 06 03 0C 04 04 06 00 00 0E 01 05 04 0F 02 03 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 01 01 00 01 00 03 00 02 00 02 00 01 00 01 00 00 00 03 00 01 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 F7