[LAU] slowing down sysex dumps

Brent Busby brent at keycorner.org
Sat Feb 2 06:15:26 UTC 2013


Usually when I want to send a sysex dump to a keyboard, I use the amidi 
command from the shell, and it works fantastic.  However, one of my 
keyboards is a Siel DK600, which is one of those synthesizers made at 
the dawn of time (or the dawn of Midi) that just barely knows what sysex 
is.  It sounds beautiful, but Midi is not its high point.

Is there anything you can do on Linux to transmit a sysex file more 
slowly?  I'm not sure, but I think it may help if the data wasn't coming 
in so fast.  The DK600 was originally designed to only receive sysex 
from other products made by the same company, so they may have had an 
assumption that the transmitter would have a slow CPU.

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