Hi everyone, There are 2 MIDI System Common opcodes (0xF4 and 0xF5) and 2 MIDI System Realtime opcodes (0xF9 and 0xFD) that the official MIDI standard reserves for future use. I'm currently collecting examples of non-standard uses of these opcodes in hardware and software (on MIDI 1.0 DIN cables and in other hardware and software contexts). Examples I've collected so far are: -- 0xF9 as "MIDI Tick" -- 0xF5 for both "MIDI endpoint" and "virtual cable" selection I'm doing this as part of the process of finishing: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~lazzaro/sa/pubs/txt/current-mwpp.txt http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~lazzaro/sa/pubs/txt/current-guide.txt It uses the semantics of the commands as part of its resiliency scheme, and so knowledge of non-standard uses of the reserved commands is needed to help craft resiliency logic for the opcodes. Probably best to send the info directly to lazzaro(a)cs.berkeley.edu, the topic is too mundane for the list ... thanks in advance! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- John Lazzaro -- Research Specialist -- CS Division -- EECS -- UC Berkeley lazzaro [at] cs [dot] berkeley [dot] edu www.cs.berkeley.edu/~lazzaro -------------------------------------------------------------------------