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- Page 2 G-DEC MIDI Operations ™ Fender’s Guitar Digital Entertainment Center (G-DEC) can communicate with computers or other G-DECs via a MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) connection. This document contains “how to” information for the following topics: Playing external MIDI files, PC and Apple Mac...
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Page 3: Section 1 - Play Midi Files
PC and MAC SECTION 1 – PLAY MIDI FILES The G-DEC is the world’s first guitar amplifier that contains a MIDI synthesizer. The G-DEC synthesizer is a fully functional General MIDI (GM) wave table synthesizer and is capable of synthesizing many instruments. - Page 4 OUT connectors and one or two joystick connectors. Depending on the breakout cable you may also need a MIDI cable to go between the breakout cable and the G-DEC. Figure 2 soundcard MIDI/joystick breakout cable 2. USB Some newer PCs or laptops will not have the soundcard joystick connector. For these computers you can buy a USB–to-MIDI converter.
- Page 5 How do I connect my computer? The most common method for getting MIDI output from a Macintosh is through a MIDI USB interface device such as the M-Audio 1x1 Uno (see Figure 1). Figure 1 M-Audio Uno. USB to MIDI converter Some PCI sound cards may also have MIDI capability for higher-end Macs but USB is by far the most common method of transferring MIDI data to and from the Mac.
- Page 6 OK, I am connected, how do I send MIDI music from my computer to the G-DEC? A computer typically lets you direct a MIDI file to several different places. By default, most computers send MIDI data to the computer soundcard. If you were to “play” a MIDI file right now, you probably would hear audio coming from your computer speakers.
- Page 7 Do an Internet search for “MIDI files.” Many website links will appear for all manner of MIDI sites, legal and otherwise. Fender discourages you from downloading any file without permission from the copyright owner PLAY!!! You are now ready to “play” a .MID file to the MIDI port. In most OS’s the easiest way to this is to double click the .MID file of choice.
- Page 8 Now we are ready to load a MIDI song file. Do an Internet search for “MIDI files.” Many website links will appear for all manner of MIDI sites, legal and otherwise. Fender recommends the use of copyright licensed files only; the downloads will often cost you a small fee, but they tend to be of better quality than “bootleg”...
- Page 9 Figure 2: MIDI Setup in Metro SE Demo application. Figure 3: Setting up for the Uno 1x1 in MIDI Setup.
- Page 10 Figure 4: Turning off Automatic MIDI Thru. Figure 5: Importing a MIDI file.
- Page 11 Figure 6: Tracks of an imported MIDI file.
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Page 12: Section 2 - Save Your Custom Presets
For the purposes of this example we will demonstrate preset saves and loads using a shareware program called MIDI-OX. Fender does not distribute or recommend this or any other program for this purpose and is not connected with MIDI-OX. With that said, let’s try a preset save. - Page 13 Figure 6 Sysex / Configure window, change the circled settings Changing the delay number from the default of 60ms to 180ms helps the PC meter out the MIDI data at a slow enough pace to not overwhelm the small buffers inside the PC. Checking the “Save Dump directly to a file”...
- Page 14 Figure 7 Initial MIDI OX device window Figure 8 MIDI OX device window after devices have been selected Transferring a single preset from the G-DEC to the PC In the “Sysex View and Scratchpad” window (third icon in the toolbar) go to the “Sysex/Receive manual dump”...
- Page 15 Figure 9 Dump a single preset to the PC Congratulations, you have now saved a preset to the PC. Saving all presets at once Now would be a good time to preserve all of your presets. The above procedure also can be used to save all of the G-DEC user presets.
- Page 16 Figure 10 DUMP ALL example, note the bytes received...
- Page 17 Saving Your Custom Presets to the Macintosh So you’ve created some great tones with your G-DEC, saved them to your own presets, and you want to back them up or maybe share them with a friend. Well, to do this, we will dump a preset to the Macintosh from the G-DEC and all of the preset parameters will be stored in a SysEx file.
- Page 18 After clicking “Done” on the message window, a new file called “Untitled” will appear in the main application window showing Fender as the manufacturer containing 3 messages and 62 bytes as shown in figure 10. If you would like to rename the file, click on the “Show File” button in the lower right corner of the main application window.
- Page 19 Figure 10: SysEx Librarian showing the dumped preset. Figure 11: SysEx Librarian showing the renamed preset SysEx file.
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Page 20: Section 3 - Sending Presets From A Pc To The G-Dec
SECTION 3 – SENDING PRESETS FROM A PC TO THE G-DEC Sending a preset from the PC to the G-DEC. Please be sure that you backup all of your presets before you try the next two steps. Transferring a preset from the PC to the G-DEC is very simple. In the MIDI-OX “Sysex view and scratchpad “... - Page 21 SECTION 3 - SENDING PRESETS FROM A PC TO THE G-DEC Loading A Custom Preset into the G-DEC So, now we need to learn how to load a preset into the G-DEC. Let’s say you received a custom preset in a SysEx file from a friend.
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Page 22: Section 4 - Upgrading G-Dec Software
SECTION 4 – UPGRADING G-DEC SOFTWARE From time to time Fender may release newer versions of G-DEC software. These upgrades will be transferred from your PC or MAC to the G-DEC. Exact procedures for these upgrades may vary and exact instructions will be included with the upgrades when they appear. - Page 23 00 – Accompaniment Level (0->127 because it is a midi level) 00 – 0 (Reserved) 27 – Checksum byte - The checksum is the sum of all of the bytes from the Fender Id(08) to just before this byte which is then masked by 0x7F:...
- Page 24 F7 – End of System Exclusive Message End of preset section System Exclusive End of File Message F0 – Start of System Exclusive Message 08 – Fender ID 21 – Device ID (Omni) 41 – G-DEC ID 02 – Function ID (One Preset Message) 7B –...
- Page 25 0 - NONE 1 - FULL BODY 2 - FULL STACK 3 - RAZORS EDGE 4 - BRIGHT LITE BASS BOOST 6 - NU METAL 7 - SUPER BRITE 8 - ACOUSTIC MIDI Patterns: 0 - 1 DROP 1 - 16 HATS 2 - 32 HATS 3 - 4 BEAT 4 - 5 ON 4...
- Page 26 69 - WALTZ 70 - WESTERN FX1 (Modulation/Dly/Stompbox): 0 - NONE 1 - MONO DELAY 2 - TAPE DELAY 3 - STEREO TAPE 4 - DUCKING DLY 5 - REVERSE DLY 6 - AUTOPAN DLY 7 - SINE CHORUS 8 - TRI CHORUS 9 - SINE FLANGE 10 - TRI FLANGE 11 - PHASER...