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From: Juan Linietsky <coding@reduz.com.ar>
To: alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: Alsa MIDI device description extension proposal.
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 23:14:02 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020323231402.6834fe98.coding@reduz.com.ar> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020323223959.2c3dd215.coding@reduz.com.ar>

Oh, and you know what, I was so concentrated in my hate for sysex ;) that i just noticed that i forgot to write the most obvious point about why sysex is a no-go.

And this is basically, that what you propose would work like this:

sysex call to poll for bank description -> Midi Out
and later
Midi In <- patch listing

And this has a fatal flaw, which is basically, what i said in my first, mail... Midi is a 1-way protocol. Thus considering this, remember that 
not all deviecs have In/Out , in fact many of them are either midi IN only, and midi OUT only. Think about the sblive/awe synth, alsa sequencer clients, etc, are MIDI OUT ONLY, so it's not possible in any way to retrieve information from them via sysex.

regards

Juan Linietsky




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  reply	other threads:[~2002-03-24  2:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-03-23  1:16 Alsa MIDI device description extension proposal Juan Linietsky
2002-03-24  0:35 ` stef
2002-03-24  1:14   ` Juan Linietsky
2002-03-24  1:39     ` Juan Linietsky
2002-03-24  2:14       ` Juan Linietsky [this message]
2002-03-24 12:22         ` stef
2002-03-24 16:44           ` Juan Linietsky
2002-03-24 12:08     ` stef

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