17 Sep
2002
17 Sep
'02
10:58 p.m.
On Wednesday 18 September 2002 00.53, John Lazzaro wrote:
Yeah, I know about that - and indeed it is a standard, but on a level
that isn't all that interesting IMHO. (After all, it's all about
transferring mostly non-stardard data...)
I was thinking about CCs, Program Change and stuff. Is there a
standard way of asking a synth for the names of it's patches, or
which CCs are assigned to what, for example?
There's no tactile "click" when connecting a sequencer CC output to a
MIDI device CC input, if you know what I mean.
//David
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david(a)gardena.net writes:
you can't ask units about things,
unless you have two cables - and that's not really part of the
standard
Actually, it is. The System-Exclusive Universal ID command
space is general-purpose functionality that, in many cases,
assumes units talking to each other via cable pairs. See:
http://crystal.apana.org.au/~ghansper/midi_introduction/midi_sysex_
universal.html
for details. The simplest example is the Generic Handshaking
instructions, which do flow-control for big Sample Dumps via
a set of commands implementing ACK, NAK, WAIT, EOF, etc.