The Sirius and MIDI
When the circled Cubase MIDI activity-indicator in the following diagram is constantly lit, the computer is
receiving the data-Dump.
Once the data-Dump is complete, the display of the Sirius is briefly showing "ok!" and then jumps back to the
previous page. A further indication that the data-Dump is completed is the activity indicator in Cubase which will
now be permanently off. Cubase now allows you to save this data-Dump onto the internal hard drive of your
computer or onto a floppy disk.
How does the Data-Dump get back to the Sirius?
Naturally you will at some point want to send the stored data-Dump(s) back to the Sirius. Fortunately this is much
simpler than the recording. You need to have the MIDI-IN socket of the Sirius connected with the MIDI-OUT of
your computer or MIDI-interface. Once you have done this, load the stored data-Dump from your hard drive or
floppy into Cubase. All you have to do now is to start the replay of Cubase. As soon as Cubase is running and
sending the MIDI-data the Sirius is showing the following message in the display:
That´s it! You will not have to set anything to receive a data-Dump on the Sirius. Just make sure that
you are receiving on the same system channel you used for data-Dumping. Setting the system chan
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explained in the chapter about the System-menu of the Sirius.
System-Exclusive message received
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