FL 21 Shenanigans

[demberto]

I have come across a few FL 21 projects and it seems Image-Line has garbled up / obfuscated the event values. Most of the values are extremely wrong and out of place. I guess they do not like their beloved format to be parseable.

The basic event structure has not been broken, but the values for 1, 2 and 4 byte events are entirely unintelligible. Structure-backed event fields are spared from this yet.

If anybody is good in figuring out how this can be decoded, you can find my contact details in the README.

[meint52]

I want to start getting into learning about the .flp file structure. I have little background knowledge. What would be the best place to start?

[demberto]

I believe I have documented the FLP format adequately in PyFLP's docs. You can begin here: https://pyflp.readthedocs.io/en/latest/architecture/flp-format.html

[meint52]

Thanks a lot! I really like this project and i will definitely dive into the details. Although it will be quite a challange for me as i know nothing about binary... I come from bioinformatics. I made a script that finds all FLP's stored on your computer (besides autosaves, backups and project demo's) and turns them into ziploops stored into a specified folder. The idea is that people can easily backup all their projects with the click of a button. (Usefull for chaotic people like me) For most projects it works but for some it runs into the same issue as #140. Hopefully this motivates me enough to figure out more about the flp format.