Just wanted to post a quick update on a tool I've been building to replace old, clunky desktop SysEx librarians: knob.monster.
I just pushed a new update and added support for several highly requested vintage boards, plus some improvements to the MIDI stream parsing logic.
What's new in this update:
- Added Korg M1 Support: Full dump/recall support for the classic workstation.
Added Roland Jupiter-6 & Casio CZ-101 Support: You can now backup and restore banks from these vintage phase distortion and analog synthesizers.
On-the-fly ASCII Parsing: The Hex-to-ASCII parser has been optimized. When you dump a bank (e.g. 32 patches from a DX7), it now instantly extracts and parses the text characters from the raw registers to auto-label the presets in the database in real-time.
Packet Pacing/Delay Calibration: Tweaked the transmission delay intervals between MIDI blocks to prevent buffer overflows on older 8-bit chipsets (no more random MIDI Buffer Error screens!).
Check it out at https://knob.monster (works in Chrome/Edge, free to backup and search your first few banks).
We all know how finicky those cheap blue $10 USB-to-MIDI cables are from Amazon
Let me know what vintage hardware support you want to see added next!
Cheers!