One thing I'm really curious about, is how the SysEx functionallity will be with the Prophet X... My intuition tells me it will be compromised in some way, as it will be impossible to include samples with a SysEx dump of a preset...
Compromised? SysEx is just what you make of it. It can't be compromised, that's a silly thing to say. Any vendor is free to send whatever they want in a SysEx dump. You can't complain about whatever format any vendor chooses to use. You can complain to the vendor about what's in the dump, but that's the level of complaint that's warranted.
I know about SysEx... I programed it in hardware chips, and created editors for several DSI synths, and yes it WILL be compromised in what's INSIDE the dump like you wrote, and that was also what I meant... the bandwidth of a SysEx dump is so slow, that putting samples into it would require days for it to even transfer
... so yes... a dump via SysEx from the X would no doubt only contain just the parameter data, but not the samples, and therefore it could be argued that a SysEx dump does not make much sense at all... you would not be able to store your samples with your SysEx data for example...
This is also why I hope that for once, DSI will create a combined editor/sample manager for the Prophet X, so that backups and editing can be handled from the same app, keeping the data bundled instead of having to backup samples from the user sample app they're doing, and keep the parameters (preset data) saved separately with an external editor using only SysEx.
With a machine like the Prophet X, (in my opinion) it's crucial to be able to easily manage your presets/samples as a single unit...
This is why I'm currious as to how the SysEx specs look, and what is included, and also how the samples themselves are adressed inside the dump... will instruments be indexed with a fixed maximum number af instruments per bank maybe? or will it use some other way to do it? ... just being currious as to how much control I'll have via SysEx on the Prophet X, mainly because I want to create an editor for it in some way... unless DSI create one that is.