First time poster and new to sequencing, and new to the Hapax. I’m trying to load definitions for a Roland TR-8. I put the SD card in my MacBook and there were no files on the card. I set up a Hapax folder and a MIDI folder and added the drum definitions. I guess my first question… is there supposed to be any data on the SD card? Would the absence of this data be preventing me from loading instrument definitions?
You need to have the hapax.bin at the root, and the instrument definitions in the MIDI directory.
How do I get the hapax.bin file? I assume it should have been on the SD card, but no files were on the card.
bin file has been flashed to your hardware already, no need for it on disk.
On the Mac make sure you save your templates as .txt files and not as .rtf :
.rtf is the standard format for the TextEdit but ads a lot of garbage which isnt readable by Hapax.
You can change the extension (.txt) manually but you have to delete the .rtf garbage int the file manually as well.
Imho best practice is to make yourself a template with the right formatting and use it as a basis for all your instrument definitions.
Cheers!
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this. ^^^
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Do you still use TextEdit for this? Trying to find a good solution for this on mac
Yes, as described above.
Of course you could probably do it with any other editor (vim etc) or even script something but TextEdit seems to be the simplest solution.
TextEdit is good, but I prefer BBEdit overall on Mac