[linux-audio-dev] LADSPA and TiMidity++

[John Lazzaro]

> david at gardena.net 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.

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