Communicating with Edisyn
Set Edisyn's MIDI channel to the same as your Venom.
The Venom's sysex documentation indicates that you can set the Venom's Synth ID. But to my knowledge this does not actually exist. If it does, please let me know. By default Edisyn is hard-coded to use 127.
Important Note
One of the Venom's global parameters specifies the MIDI Out mode (USB vs Key). Changing this mode could disconnect the Venom from Edisyn, and so Edisyn does not display this parameter, nor does it upload the parameter when you send parameters to the Venom.
Hints
Gotchas
Note to Vyzex Users
Edisyn is a general-purpose patch editor tool and so its approach is designed to accommodate a wide range of synthesizers. Vyzex is designed for a single synthesizer, and so it is highly customized for that purpose in ways Edisyn cannot be. You may have noticed that Edisyn's Venom editor launches immediately, while Vyzex spends a long time loading every single patch from your Venom. This is because Vyzex stays in sync with your Venom, while Edisyn does not. As a result the Vyzex can do several things Edisyn cannot. First, Vyzex acts as a librarian, but Edisyn is just a plain-jane patch editor. Second, for related reasons, Vyzex tells you exactly which multi-patches depend on the single patch you're overwriting, and can display all the patches at once. Third, because it knows about all your patches together, Vyzex can dive down into single patches or arpeggio headers to allow you to change portions them from a multi-patch. This is a confusing and very bad idea, so it's good Edisyn can't do that. Edisyn can load the single patches or arpeggios associated with a multi-patch so you can edit them separately.
So why use Edisyn instead of Vyzex? Partly because Vyzex will very soon be obsoleted and impossible to run. And besides fixing some bad Vyzex errors, Edisyn can do one major thing Vyzex (and M-Audio's installed software) cannot: directly edit arpeggios.
Thanks to Jan Bote (jan.bote@gmx.de) for his assistance and knowledge.
By | Sean Luke |
Date | November 25, 2020 |