DX Voice Filer  (C) 1986, 1987 Jack Deckard  All Rights Reserved

   Disclaimer: Neither Jack Deckard or Helicon Software is responsible for
ANY problems you may have using this program. BACKUP ANYTHING you can't
afford to lose!

   DX Voice Filer is in the Public Domain. Feel free to pass it around.  If
you find this program useful, please send $10.00 or whatever you can afford
(your own custom DX7 voices are OK too) to the address at the end of this
message to help me finance further MIDI program development for the Amiga.
If you know what the format is for a DX dump request via MIDI, send me that
too.

 Instructions:

   Create a directory called DX-Synth and place the VoiceFiler program in it.
Create another directory inside the DX-Synth directory called vocfiles.
This is where your data dumps should be. If you received two voice files with
this distribution (Deckard and Czeiszperger), put them in the vocfiles
directory. This may already be done if you got this from Fred Fish.

   Your DX synth must be set to receive MIDI information on channel one.
Also System Info Available must be enabled and Internal Memory Protect must
be turned off. Consult your DX manual on how to do this. Only 32 voice format
MIDI data transfers are supported by this program.

   To dump your voices from your DX to your Amiga you need to follow the
instruction in your manual for bulk voice data dumps. This entails, on the
DX7, turning Internal Voice Data Protect off, pressing the Function mode
switch, changing the MIDI channel to 1, enabling System Info Avail,
and then pressing the YES  button at the Function Control MIDI Transmit Prompt
on your DX7.  You may have to press YES a couple of times (wait 4 or 5 sec
before pressing YES again) because the serial.device in 1.2 is not
100% reliable at MIDI baud rates. I've also had problems running MIDI baud
rates and vd0: in the same mix. The dump is checksumed for reliability. Dumps
for DX21s and DX100s are simililar. The filer program is constantly scanning
for dumps. After you receive the voice data you are prompted via  a disk
requester for a name to save the file under, on disk. You may abort the save
to disk by pressing cancel at the prompt.

   To load the voice data files from disk into Amiga memory and send
them to your DX, select Amiga to DX menu option. You will be prompted for
the file name on disk via a disk requester. After the file is loaded from disk,
it is automatically sent to your DX. Note, make sure Internal Memory Protect
is turned off and System Info Avail is enabled if you get an error.

   Please send any donations to:

         Jack Deckard
         3808 Laguna Drive
         Columbus, OH 43232

   Thank you and enjoy the code.


[Ed note -- Jack sent this to me for inclusion in the library, so that is
 why it is on this disk and not one of the pure shareware disks.  -Fred]