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

[David Olofson]

On Wednesday 18 September 2002 00.53, John Lazzaro wrote:
> > 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.

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

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