[linux-audio-user] More MIDI/sysex dump/sequencers...

[Tim Orford]

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> need for something like that to be rather less nowadays 
> (certainly I do nearly everything with software synths and I 
> can't conceive of a way to set them all up automatically at the 
> beginning of a song without using a fairly rigid framework like 
> Buzz on the PC where you do all your sound generation internally 
> or using plugins, nothing like ALSA or Jack), but there was a 
> time when it was very necessary.  Necessary as in "Oh my god, I 
> have 700 banks on this floppy, which one was I using when I 
> wrote this song?!"

lol! so true.  
but as any half-decent midi sequencer already, has the
inate ability to send and receive sysex, i beleive ladcca is (will be) a
more general solution, ie it will load your arrangement tool, jackd, all
softsynths etc and load the correct data into them at the press of a
button.  
http://pkl.net/~node/ladcca.html 

cheers
-- 
Tim Orford