10 Oct
2003
10 Oct
'03
3:55 a.m.
On Thursday 09 October 2003 21:56, Tim Orford wrote:
I don't remember which windows app it was, but back in my dark
days of doing everything with MIDI synths, I used to be able to
have the sequencer send a sysex file containing the appropriate
patches for the song to each synth (I had/have a Korg M1 and
Yamaha DX7.) It seems to me that an even older piece of
software let me do that as well, maybe an Amiga or DOS based
sequencer.
Of course those boards both predate General MIDI, so you had no
way to expect patch 0 to be a grand piano, etc. I'd expect the
need for something like that to be rather less nowadays
(certainly I do nearly everything with software synths and I
can't conceive of a way to set them all up automatically at the
beginning of a song without using a fairly rigid framework like
Buzz on the PC where you do all your sound generation internally
or using plugins, nothing like ALSA or Jack), but there was a
time when it was very necessary. Necessary as in "Oh my god, I
have 700 banks on this floppy, which one was I using when I
wrote this song?!"
Rob
"So, are
you all telling me that there are no sequencers for
linux that support a simple sysex dump and sysex receive,
you know, by taking a .syx file and throwing it out to the
machine?"
i'm not saying the situation is good, but i cant see a good
argument for integrating this functionality into a
'sequencer'. I think many people would say that creating
bloated monolithic apps was the wrong direction to go in.