21 Jan
2008
21 Jan
'08
5:24 a.m.
- Flexible and easy controller mapping, to make it
easy to
interface to
different between different hardware and software.
- Feature discovery. Something like what controller types does this
device/software understand, what are the default values and ranges of
controllers, etc.
All it takes to solve these two issues is an appropriate use of SYSEX
- request and dump - and some open documentation on the contents of
the headers. I've implemented XML-over-SYSEX to solve this issue in
one fell swoop, and as ugly as that sounds, it sure worked fine for
the prototypes for which the code was written .. of course that was
all for naught in favour of hacky, ugly, proprietary solutions, (such
as "Total Integration"), but hey .. it can be done, realistically.
;
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Jay Vaughan