Sysex And Alesis' Soundbridge -- Crashes, can't send SYS. file to QSR sound module Options

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Is there a sysex app. which will work in MOTU's FreeMIDI (not OMS) to send extra SYSEX Alesis Q Card programs via the editor/librarian Unisyn on my PowerBook G3 to the Alesis QSR module? If it makes a difference, the MIDI interface is hooked up via the Keyspan USB/serial adatper which works great otherwise.

The apps. which Alesis includes -- Soundbridge and Freeloader -- cause freezes, crashes, and worse. I just tried the MIDIEx profile from Mark of the Unicorn's website, but no go.

Thanks,
Bonne
Gettysburg, PA

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Let those nails be! I have worked it out, with help from this discussion.

The problem hasn't been with Unisyn. I didn't expect it to be able to do what a Sysex app. can. I think it's simply that Unisyn needs to have files in its own language, so to speak. The Alesis Q Cards' extra files -- which are in Sysex format -- have to be sent to the tone module in order then to get the bank(s) back into Unisyn.

Thankfully, the quandry is worked out:
I took advice from the forum and got the OMS emulator online. Finally I was able to use the sysex app Sysex452 which I had downloaded previously but hadn't been able to use it because it functions under OMS -- not the FreeMIDI I'd been using for years with MOTU software, of course.

The OMS emulator worked perfectly, and Sysex 452 sent the sysex files through to the Alesis QSR module beautifully. Now I can trash Alesis' Soundbridge and Freeloader for which I'd optimistically hoped to learn how to make them function as they ought under the Mac OS.

Thanks!

Bonnie
Gettysburg