Hi Rikki,

Here is a description of MidiOx directly from it's creator:

MIDI-OX is a Windows 95/NT program (also Win98/Me/2000/XP). It is a 32 bit program which will not operate under earlier versions of Windows. MIDI-OX is a multi-purpose tool: it is both a diagnostic tool and a System Exclusive librarian. It can perform filtering and mapping of MIDI data streams. It displays incoming MIDI streams, and passes the data to a MIDI output driver or the MIDI Mapper. You can generate MIDI data using the computer keyboard or the built-in control panel. You can even record and log MIDI data and then convert it to a Standard MIDI File for playback by a sequencer.

What I'm trying to do really isn't any more complex than some of the other ideas that you and Frank have thought of and suggested. Actually it's kind of a simple shortcut to make things go a little quicker. What I am trying to accomplish here is to have the ability to use the ES as both the controller and sound module for OMB. When I remap style voices manually for the ES, it can sound quite good with OMB. It is however, as I'm sure you know, a ton of work to change patch and bank data for each individual style.

My particular use of MidiOx in this instance will be to take the patch data output from OMB in GM mode ( or a midi file ), introduce it into MidiOX, and have MidiOx reassign the data so that it when it sends it back out it automtically will correspond to the desired bank and patch settings on the Motif ES. In this way, I can take the 127 standard GM patches and select which voice I'd like each of them to call up on the Motif ES, and then send that data back out from MidiOx to the ES.

It will take some work to do, but once it's done, it's pretty much done. It's still looks to be much less work than changing all of the patch / bank data for each individual style I want to use.

I'd still like to build a high quality soundfont, but this will take a lot of time as well.

As far as the search for a new arranger... no new developments. I'm still leaning toward the Tyros 2 at this point. If what I want to do with OMB works out ok, ( with latency being the only real concern, the rest should definitely work ok ), then there certainly is no rush, and maybe not even a need for me to have another hardware arranger.


Cheers,

AJ



[This message has been edited by Bluezplayer (edited 12-05-2005).]