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SimpleSysexxer Resurrected

There are various tools for Windows and Mac OS available to backup and restore the memory contents of MIDI devices. For Linux there’s none except for amidi (a command line tool which does a great job BTW) and Jsynthlib. The latter one does not contain drivers for all of my devices and does not act as an ALSA sequencer client as I’d need it. So I was looking for a simple, generic tool with a graphical user interface, but to no avail.

Some years ago a friend of mine wrote some code to fill the gap. Sysexxer is still hosted at Sourceforge. It requires KDE and currently is an unfinished state. I also noticed that many Linux musicians avoid installing KDE for various reasons. Three years ago I started a new project of my own called SimpleSysexxer. It was my first “bigger” application in C++, so it is buggy as hell and barely usable. Instead of KDE, I used the Qt4 development framework.

I’m currently working on it and have rewritten all the backend code. The above screenshot is no fake. It already can load, save and send data. Receiving data is implemented but not tested at all.

During the next days and weeks I will test, rewrite, test, rewrite, translate and finally release the GPL‘ed code. If you want to help with testing or translations (no coding skills are required), please drop me a line.

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