Esx File Format

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skratchdot.com

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Dec 1, 2012, 5:41:35 PM12/1/12
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Just in case anyone is interested, I've starting generating javadocs for the project.

Most of what I have picked up about the .esx file format is commented here:

http://skratchdot.com/projects/open-electribe-editor/javadocs/index.html?com/skratchdot/electribe/model/esx/EsxFile.html

There are still sections of the file format that I have never been able to see any data changes (by making changes on my esx)- so I assume those sections are reserved for future versions of the esx.  I've also never gotten any help from anyone- so it's been getting data from the esx midi implementation guides, and by making manual changes on the esx- and evaluating the file diffs with hex tools, etc.

If anyone ever wants to help, or finds any bugs with the program (or file parsing)- let me know.

Anyways, figured I'd make a post here so search engines start crawling "Esx File Format", and I have a place to point people to if they ever ask about the file format.

-Jeff

filip krzysztof tomaszewski aka zambari

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Dec 1, 2012, 7:08:19 PM12/1/12
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great job jeff,
your work is appreciated.

as far as my contributions go, here's a small flash simulator for the
ES-1 NRPN messages, if someone's interested in better understanding of
how those little sequencers output their control data (which ain't
CC's), it differs a bit from ESX/EMX series but the general principle
is there

http://eq-av.com/?p=ES1K

I also have a BOME Midi's template generator written in PHP somewhere...
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filip aka
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skratchdot.com

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Dec 1, 2012, 9:16:55 PM12/1/12
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Very cool. Thanks for sharing.

I've been wanting to write a midi translation tool (similar to BOME's midi translator).  A long time ago I wrote something that sent midi messages to the ES-1, but I want to make something more general and open source it.

Anyways, cool site!
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