How to access the Disting Ex web editor

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Re: How to access the Disting Ex web editor

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Ah i understand ;-) was using an old link
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Re: How to access the Disting Ex web editor

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I updated to the latest dex preset editor html and am using firmware v1.20. It didnt solve the problem I was facing (no sysex from my Motu Ultralite, but I do see one minor improvement. For example if I m in single mode on the Disting Ex, clicking on "Enter Dual Mode" actually switches the disting ex to a dual mode. Wish I could get more functionality working. On my computer I think the MIDI message i get back is not what the preset editor expects. For example, I never cross this block of code:
https://github.com/expertsleepersltd/di ... #L957-L961

If it helps, here is a sample of the message.data alonside the hardcoded header:

data: Uint8Array(3) [224, 18, 35, buffer: ArrayBuffer(3), byteLength: 3, byteOffset: 0, length: 3, Symbol(Symbol.toStringTag): 'Uint8Array']
header: (6) [240, 0, 33, 39, 93, '0']


Lastly, could it be possible that I may not have connected the MIDI expander properly and hence not getting Sysex from the Disting back to my computer?
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Re: How to access the Disting Ex web editor

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doctorupdonk wrote: Thu May 04, 2023 3:40 am Ah i understand ;-) was using an old link
thanks as always
May i know how you solved this issue. I get the same issue as you reported earlier when I try G8 CV/Midi to send Midi data from the disting to my DAW. I m using firmware v1.20 and am using the latest dex editor from here https://github.com/expertsleepersltd/distingEX_tools
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Re: How to access the Disting Ex web editor

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walmik wrote: Mon May 15, 2023 12:25 am If it helps, here is a sample of the message.data alonside the hardcoded header:
That's a pitch bend message. What is sending your computer a pitch bend?
walmik wrote: Mon May 15, 2023 12:25 am Lastly, could it be possible that I may not have connected the MIDI expander properly and hence not getting Sysex from the Disting back to my computer?
If it's not connected properly you'll get no MIDI at all.
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Re: How to access the Disting Ex web editor

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Apologies for the delay in responding here. I m pasting the entire dump here for your perusal. Basically, onMIDIMessage is triggered a whole bunch of times when I click refresh. I do have 2 more MIDI devices (Keystep Pro and Bass Station 2) however these are turned off at the moment. Hence not sure what sends the pitch bend. Could it be from a previous session where i had used the Keystep Pro to play the Poly wavetable algorithm?

The attached image doesnt show the first message, it has this array
[240, 0, 9, 247]

Could the 240 here imply sys ex? Just based off of this page https://fmslogo.sourceforge.io/manual/midi-table.html
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Re: How to access the Disting Ex web editor

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Well that's just garbage. Is the disting EX the only thing connected to the MIDI port?

Could you run a MIDI monitor (e.g. this if you're on macOS: https://www.snoize.com/midimonitor/) and see what that says the incoming messages are?

Did you run the 'test MIDI out' test on the EX?
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