On Wednesday 18 September 2002 00.53, John Lazzaro wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > you can't ask units about things, > > unless you have two cables - and that's not really part of the > > standard > > Actually, it is. The System-Exclusive Universal ID command > space is general-purpose functionality that, in many cases, > assumes units talking to each other via cable pairs. See: > > http://crystal.apana.org.au/~ghansper/midi_introduction/midi_sysex_ >universal.html > > for details. The simplest example is the Generic Handshaking > instructions, which do flow-control for big Sample Dumps via > a set of commands implementing ACK, NAK, WAIT, EOF, etc.
Yeah, I know about that - and indeed it is a standard, but on a level that isn't all that interesting IMHO. (After all, it's all about transferring mostly non-stardard data...) I was thinking about CCs, Program Change and stuff. Is there a standard way of asking a synth for the names of it's patches, or which CCs are assigned to what, for example? There's no tactile "click" when connecting a sequencer CC output to a MIDI device CC input, if you know what I mean. //David .- M A I A -------------------------------------------------. | Multimedia Application Integration Architecture | | A Free/Open Source Plugin API for Professional Multimedia | `---------------------------> http://www.linuxdj.com/maia/ -' .- David Olofson -------------------------------------------. | Audio Hacker - Open Source Advocate - Singer - Songwriter | `-------------------------------------> http://olofson.net -' _______________________________________________ linux-audio-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
