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

Fons Adriaensen fons at kokkinizita.net
Mon Oct 5 13:19:17 EDT 2009


On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 07:00:40PM +0200, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote:

> The MMA requires that you use a registered manufacturer ID, but only for 
> commercial products. There is a special ID = 0x7D that is intended for 
> educational or development use only, and should never appear in a commercial 
> design.

Where it is silently assumed that 'educational' and 'development'
implies 'not distributed', or at least 'never used together with
any other app using the same ID'.

If two or more open source programs use 0x7D and they happen to
see the same MIDI stream then one of them will be screwed. 

Ciao,

-- 
FA

Io lo dico sempre: l'Italia è troppo stretta e lunga.




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