VMidiBox questions

MIDIbox Tools & MIOS Studio
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Hi,

I’ve built a midibox 64 with 1.00 firmware. Do I have to use vmidiboxv1.00f with it?

Is this a way to operate with vmidibox? Correct me if I’m wrong:

  • open sysex file (midibox64_generic, for example)

  • send sysex

  • and midibox should work like defined in sysex? (num of pots,etc)

When I click receive sysex, I see a message like “Bytes to receive: 1927” and nothing happens :frowning:

Is there something wrong with my midibox or am I not using vmidibox in a proper way?

thanx

2

What should I use?

vmidibox64_100f.zip  or

vmidibox64_101a.zip  

for firmware 1.0 ?

3

Hi,

With firmware version 1.00 you should use vmbox 1.00f.

it should work as you describe.

Make sure the sysex device ID in vmidibox matches the device ID setting in your midibox64 LCD menu.

When you click receive, vmidibox should request and receive a sysex dump from your box. This also only works if  the device ID’s match. (this feature was created to use multiple midiboxes on the same midi interface)

vmidibox version 1.01a matches firmware version 1.01 which can now be downloaded from T’s site.

Good luck,

Serge

4

Hi & thanks for reply…

My configuration doesn’t have a LCD, it has only one CORE and device ID is set to 0, is this right? Speed is set to 200 bytes/sec.

When I click ‘send’, it sends some data, because counter (bytes left to send) is counting down… but no LEDs on the midibox lit.

When I click ‘receive’, it shows ‘bytes to receive: 1927(or some other number)’, but nothing happens. No countdown. When I close vmidibox, I can see in task manager that application is still active, so I have to end it manually.

I am using Roland’s serial MIDI driver. In VMidibox, ports are selected as following:

MIDI In: Roland Serial MIDI driver

MIDI out: Roland Serial MIDI driver Out A (or something like that, I can’t remember right now - I am in the office)

Is this correct? MIDIox shows values from pot & buttons like it should, but I cannot send/receive sysex files.

What should I look if I have hardware problem?

thanks again,

rogic

5

Hi,

…device ID is set to 0, is this right?  

normally, yes

a send speed of 200 should be OK normally.

I never used the serial port drivers with vmidbox.

Maybe you could try a much lower speed (50 ?) once

to see if it is not a serial driver timing issue ?

When I click ‘receive’, it shows ‘bytes to receive: 1927(or some other number)’, but nothing happens. No countdown. When I close vmidibox, I can see in task manager that application is still active, so I have to end it manually.

Okay, this is something I can fix for the next version.

The receive functionality uses a timer that runs until the data is received. I guess I should stop that timer if one exits the program before having received the data :-[ …

Could you try the following ?

try sysex update using midiox as described in http://ucapps.de/howtosysex.html

or install midiyoke drivers and connect via these drivers. This way you could monitor the traffic between vmidibox and your hw box. This way you could log with mixiox all that passes to and from your box.  You should be able to see the sysex stream passin…

Good luck,

Serge

6

I’ll try during the weekend and post results on monday.

Thanks!

7

Hi Serge,

I solved MIDI serial problems, have a look in:

http://www.midibox.org/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=troubleshooting;action=display;num=1045822398

8

Great,

all works fine now with vmidibox ?

Regards,

Serge

9

Didn’t tried many options, but works fine  ;D