whitcomb@aurs01.uucp (Jonathan Whitcomb) (06/26/91)
A new version of E-oR, the profile editor for Dr.T's X-oR universal
patch editor/librarian is now available for the Atari ST.
For the uninitiated, X-oR is a program that manages all the
system exclusive messages for any MIDI capable machine (be it a
synth, effects box, MIDI mixer, switcher or whatever). The catch is,
someone has to write a "profile" for your machine. This profile
converts your machines system exclusive data into parameters that
may be used by X-oR. E-oR is a tool that allows you to do write,
modify and test profiles for X-oR. It has its own interpreted
command language (XORCL), although much of writing a profile consists of
setting up data and parameter tables.
Once a profile has been written, it may be used with any of the
four platforms for X-oR (ST, Mac, PC and Amiga). For now, E-oR
is only available for the ST.
E-oR V1.3 has an improved XORCL editor screen, with improved program
branching and tracing capabilities. A feature that non-programmers
will especially like is the new parmob editing features. This lets
you highlight any object or group of objects on the editing screen
with the mouse (sliders, text boxes, envelope boxes, etc.) and
manually move them with the cursor keys. This means that if you
don't like the screen layout on one of your existing profiles, you
can change it easily.
Various other changes and bug fixes have been made. Writing a new
profile from scratch is still no picnic, but many of the more
tedious tasks have been simplified.
E-oR can be downloaded from GEnie (if you own a registered Dr.T's
product), and can probably be gotten from Dr.T's directly by calling
their customer service line (617-455-1454). The program doesn't
cost anything if you own X-oR (and why would you want it otherwise?),
although you'll probably have to pay for the disk and postage if
you have it sent.
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Jonathan Whitcomb UUCP: <whitcomb%aurgate@mcnc.org>
Alcatel Network Systems, Raleigh, NC GEnie: J.WHITCOMB3