jazz-soft/jzz-midi-gear

Retrieve your MIDI device model and manufacturer

jzz-midi-gear's Issues

Yamaha PSS-A50

MIDI SysEx ID reply for "Yamaha PSS-A50 Portable Keyboard":

f0 7e 7f 06 02 43 00 44  27 1f 00 00 00 7f f7

Looks like 00 44 is "Portable Keyboard", 27 1F is "PSS-A50"

This could be added to the list.

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$ amidi -l
Dir Device    Name
IO  hw:1,0,0  Digital Keyboard MIDI 1

$ amidi -p hw:1,0,0 -S 'F0 7E 00 06 01 F7' -d

F0 7E 7F 06 02 43 00 44 27 1F 00 00 00 7F F7

isIdResponse() doesn't catch some non-compliant hardware

isIdResponse correctly tests that the 5th byte has a value of 2:

https://github.com/jazz-soft/JZZ-midi-Gear/blob/master/javascript/JZZ.midi.Gear.js#L15

JZZ.MIDI.prototype.isIdResponse = function() {
  return this[0] == 0xf0 && this[1] == 0x7e && this[3] == 6 && this[4] == 2 && this[this.length-1] == 0xf7 && this.length > 10;
};

Unfortunately some synth manufacturers do not send a correct device inquiry response. I happen to own a Waldorf Microwave XT, and the response it sends is:

F0 7E 06 02 3E 0E 00 0B  00 32 2E 33 33 F7

This is documented thoroughly in the manual:

The Microwave 2 will respond with the following:

F0,7E,06,02        Universal Device Header

02 is the 4th byte! 🤬

The instrument has the last available firmware installed ( 2.33 ) so this is unlikely to ever get fixed by Waldorf, and regardless has now likely been baked into third party software. I'm not sure what the right approach here is, it should be reliable to test for a value of 2 at the 5th byte but I thought I'd log the issue so at least other MWXT owners don't go crazy.

An alternative approach I might adopt for some other work I'm doing is to key all known instruments using this utility function:

msg = [240, 126, 6, 2, 62, 14, 0, 11, 0, 50, 46, 51, 51, 247];
function makeUniqueId(intArr) {
    return intArr.map((int) => { return int.toString(16).padStart(2, '0'); }) 
}
console.log(makeUniqueId(msg))
// returns 'f0-7e-06-02-3e-0e-00-0b-00-32-2e-33-33-f7'

It's unlikely there would be collisions and I can then support non-standard hardware without special logic and I'd have O(1) lookups.

Korg Pa1000 and Triton Extreme

The web link did not detect my connected Keyboards mentioned in the title, and I couldn't find Korg listed in the updated list of manufacturers. Here are the identity request reply messages for both keyboards:

Korg Pa1000:
SYSX: F0 7E 7F 06 02 42 60 00 65 00 01 03 01 00 F7

Triton Extreme:
SYSX: F0 7E 00 06 02 42 50 00 3D 00 00 00 01 00 F7

Novation Bass Station II

ID Response SysEx received:
   port:    Bass Station II
   message: f0 7e 00 06 02 00 20 29 33 00 00 00 00 06 09 06 f7
   brand:   Novation
   model:   undefined
   device:  undefined

I've created a pull request but don't know if that's right: #9

Yamaha/Line6 THR30II not recognized

ID-Response:
f0 7e 7f 06 02 00 01 0c 24 00 02 00 63 00 1e 01 f7

It's the new Yamaha THR30II (wireless) guitar practice amp.
It's settings can be modified by SysEx Messages.
There is an app for Windows, Android and IPhone to do so.
But you can also directly connect it by USB-Midi and communicate via SysEx commands