AW: [Jsynthlib-devel] Okay... so why can't I edit a patch with this?

[Joachim B. <jba...@pi...>]

> So... what happens if the world, someday, comes up with MIDI2=20
> with some=20
> new sysex begin/end bytes instead of F0/F7? We go back and=20
> rewrite all=20
> of the drivers?

Sorry, but that's absolute nonsense!
The MIDI specs are programmed into the ROM of most of
the synths so they cannot be changed.

But independet of that I suggest to have constants
for the start and end byte.

Like:
public static final byte SYSEX_START_BYTE			=3D (byte) 0xF0;
public static final byte SYSEX_END_BYTE			=3D (byte) 0xF7;

I have included them in my synth driver constants classes which means
reduncancy.

Does something speak against including them in the core/Constants class?

This would also mean that we could remove the following code
from the core/SysexMatcher class:
public final byte F7 =3D (byte)0xF7;
public final byte F0 =3D (byte)0xF0;

I think the naming is confusing as the name contains
already the value.

Regards,
Joachim Backhaus