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The Harmonizer

Programmer’s Manual

On the Harmonizer, ensure that MIDI is enabled and system

exclusive

is on. You will find these parameters on the [midi]

menu page in the SETUP area.

If you find that your PC is “unhappy” about the speed of

transmission (as in “it’s too fast!”), lower the sysex speed

parameter on the “second” [midi] menu page in the SETUP area.

This will dumb down the Harmonizer’s transmission speed.

Establishing a Serial Connection

Assuming you’ve launched Vsigfile, choose Comms under the Preferences menu.

Choose Serial as the Comms Type in the dialog box that opens.

Choose Serial Config to select the comms port you would like to use.

You must also ensure that the baud rate, the data bits, the stop bits, and the parity agree on the

Harmonizer and Vsigfile. These parameters are found on the “third” [midi] menu page in the SETUP

area in the Harmonizer (as shown above right) and in Serial Config under the Preferences menu in Vsigfile (as

shown above left) . The higher you set the

baud rate the faster the communication will be between the

Harmonizer and your computer. However, most computers have a ceiling above which errors occur.

You should set the baud rate as high as you can (on both machines) without incurring errors. On the

Harmonizer, ensure that serial is enabled and system exclusive is on. You will find these

parameters on the

[midi] menu page in the SETUP area.

Connect your computer’s serial port to the Harmonizer’s serial port and ensure that no other device on

your computer is hogging the comms port (the modem is a common offender on the author’s computer).

If Vsigfile is unable to access its assigned comms port, you will get the

message similar to that shown to the right. It means that there is a

device (or another program) hogging the comms port or that there is

something wrong with the selected comms port. Either way, you’ve

got a problem to ferret out.

Vsigfile will itself hog the comms port. To “disconnect” Vsigfile from the comms port (so that you can

use another device), choose Disconnect from the Midi menu, or use AutoDisconnect which will disconnect the

comms port after it has not been used for a while.

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