[LAU] Whysynth and MIDI channels

[Dave Phillips]

Paul Coccoli wrote:

> On 5/29/07, Sean Bolton <musound at jps.net> wrote:
>
>> With ghostess, use the '-chan' command line option, e.g.
>> 'ghostess -chan 3 whysynth.so'.  Note that ghostess numbers
>> its channels starting from 0, so that example would cause it
>> to listen on what most people call channel 4.... ;-)
>
>
> Now doesn't that sound silly when you read it out loud?  I don't
> understand why so many programmers insist on using 0-15 for MIDI
> channels when most hardware uses 1-16 (correct me if I'm wrong).

Patch number representation ought to be selectable. Older MIDI gear 
might use one of various numbering schemes, it's useful to have the 
software numbering match the hardware.

Best,

dp