Yamaha FS1R

Performance Patch Editor

This editor handles performances, not voices. Though FS1R performances and voices are meant to work hand-in-hand, Edisyn's voice and performance editors are separate; but they can work together in certain ways as discussed below.

Communicating with Edisyn

Set the FS1R's to receive System Exclusive, Bulk Dumps, Bank Selection, and Program Change. That is, set Rcv SysExcl, RcvBulkDump, Rcv BankSel, and Rcv PgmChng to ON. Set the Program Change Mode to "Multi". Set the FS1R's Device Number to either ALL or to the Synth ID in Edisyn's MIDI panel. For most MIDI devices, you can probably reduce the FS1R's Dump Interval to 50ms. Set Edisyn's send and receive MIDI channels to the FS1R's receive and send channels respectively.

About the FS1R Menu

The menu has several options which hopefully make working with the patch editor more useful:

Loading DX7 Patches

It's easy: just use the DX7 Editor.

Hints



Gotchas

Thanks to K_Take (k_take@dual.squares.net) for giving me access to the source code of FS1REditor and permission to reuse many of its embedded tables, without which Edisyn's patch editor would not have been possible. And thanks to Thor Zollinger (thor276@cableone.net) for his tutoring on the internal operation of the FS1R. Thanks to Jeremy Bernstein (jeremy@cycling74.com) for his help in debugging.

By    Sean Luke
Date    July 2020