[LAD] Sending huge SysEx files via ALSA

[Gabriel M. Beddingfield]

Hi Christoph,

On Mon, 27 Jul 2009, Christoph Eckert wrote:
>
> I'm currently playing with some code that sends SysEx data to ALSA using
> RtMidi¹. I get an error reported by the latter one as soon as the size of the
> message exceeds 16355 bytes. Unfortunately, I have such SysEx files of two
> devices (namely a Waldorf Microwave I and a Digitech Studio Quad).
>
> Can anyone comment whether this is a limitation in ALSA, and in case it is if
> there are coding workarounds? AFAIR ALSA splits incoming SysEx-events into

Have you tried doing SysEx dumps with amidi?[1] It might give you more 
insight into whether the problem is ALSA or RtMidi.

Peace,
Gabriel

[1] On Debian, this is in the package 'alsa-utils'