I downloaded the fantastic looking new user-created layout for the Yamaha TG77 (a rack version of the SY77 synth). The MIDI messages for the rack and keyboard version of the synth should be the same, so I figure the SY77 should work as well. I have all MIDI cables connected correctly. I have tried different MIDI channels on the SY77 for receive. I have tried different System ID settings and have enabled and disabled Bulk Protect in System Settings on the SY77. I enter voice edit mode on the Sy77 and when I change parameters, they register on the MD editor layout nicely. However, no changes I make on the MD layout are registered on the synth itself. I imagine there is a simple setting somewhere I am missing.
Some things I tried this morning:
I plugged my ipad MIDI out into my Mac and used a MIDI monitor app on the Mac to make sure my ipad and MIDI Designer were sending MIDI on the MIDI out from the ipad interface...all good. Sysex strings are being received from the ipad and look legitimate. I did notice that the manufacturer ID being sent from the TG77 design in MD was a manufacturer ID labeled as "Oberheim." I thought perhaps changing the System ID on my SY77 from "1" to "all" may help, but no go there. Still there is no data being changed on the synth from the ipad, even though it is sending Sysex data. I tried different midi channels again to no avail. I have the SY77 in Voice Edit mode. Again, I am able to send data from the SY77 TO the ipad and the controls in the layout change to reflect the values chosen in the editor, but not the other way around. I believe it is either some setting I am missing on the SY77 or something in the sysex string that the SY77 doesn't like coming from the MD layout. It's got to be something simple. I have tried different config settings in MIDI including slowing down the MIDI data stream in the Config page of MD. No luck yet! Anyone have any ideas?
