Old 05-17-2020, 08:14 AM   #1
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Hi,

I have some old hardware sequencers which can use MIDI bulk dumps as their offline storage method. My OS is Linux (Lubuntu).

Is there a software utility to save / load MIDI bulk dumps to from Linux?

I did a Google search and I didn't discovery any stand-alone utilities that could do this.

I get the feeling I could do it with Reaper, but am unsure how. I'd rather a quick, small utility, but if Reaper is the way to do it, I'll try that.

Appreciate the help, thanks.
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Record the dump in a MIDI item and use a MIDI hardware output to send it to the device via playback?
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Old 05-17-2020, 08:37 AM   #3
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Record the dump in a MIDI item and use a MIDI hardware output to send it to the device via playback?
Thanks. I did find the Linux built-in utility "amidi". It's a command line utility and is bare bones, but seems to do what I need.

amidi -r <filename>

saves incoming data. So you issue that command in a shell, tell your sequencer to dump the sysex data, and then when your sequencer says its done, press CTRL-C in the Linix shell to stop amidi from receiving.

That last part was a bit non-intuitive. Other utilities I've tried (under Amiga OS and Windows) detected the end of the Sysex dump and notified the user.
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