[LAD] [LAU] So what's the deal with controlling the aeolus organ?stops via midi

[Paul Davis]

On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net> wrote:
> Paul Davis wrote:
>>
>> you've missed my point.
>>
>> if aeolus is currently programmed to switch to stop setting S1, and i
>> want it to switch setting S2 instead, what do i, as a user do? what do
>> i have to know?
>
> I don't know Aeolus, but usually a user should be able to change between
> setting 1 and setting 2 by the GUI of the application, just by using the
> mouse and without any knowledge about 0xf0 and 0xf7. The SysEx data should
> be sent by MIDI, while the user just switch from setting 1 to setting 2 by
> the GUI and a sequencer could receive it.

so you are saying that in order to edit a sequence that contains
requests for stop changes, the user must understand the *internal*
structure of a sysex message? and this is even more true when they go
to create the first such request (rather than edit an existing one) ?