>Anyway, I believe going with the sequencer is the better solution anyway;
IMHO, its not. i had to do this to download a huge firmware update via sysex to our Alesis M20 ADAT's last year, and ran into all kinds of problems. Unless your Sysex messages are all rather short, the sequencer is not your friend, and raw MIDI is. its possible that the memory allocation/management code in the sequencer (both in the kernel and in alsa-lib) have been fixed, and what i tried would now work, but given that the sequencer is really there to perform 2 (orthogonal) functions [time sequencing of event delivery; data routing/multiplexing] neither of which have anything to do with sending/receiving patch sets, i can't see why you'd choose to use it. --p [ "sequence this!" ] _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel