Re: [Jsynthlib-devel] Inquiry ID Requests

[Frankie F. <jsy...@te...>]

I actually did a little bit of work tidying a few drivers up last month
because a number of them claimed ownership of pretty much any device id
that they were passed.

Anyone know how other software like this such as sounddiver etc deal
with detecting synths that don't support the standard midi enquiry?

I agree that a mechanism that gives a driver an opportunity to define or
carry out a custom enquiry could be useful for cases like this. Perhaps
an overridable function in the driver's base class which accepts a
device id and channel, and generates the appropriate message, and after
the standard sysex detection procedure has been run, it can do the same
for any driver that has overridden this function.

frankie

On 22/11/2011 15:11, John McCabe wrote:
> Hi
>
> Has anyone considered looking at the MidiScan stuff to deal more 
> 'elegantly' with synths that don't respond to an device inquiry as per 
> the MIDI standard?
>
> I noticed there is special code in there for the Waldorf Microwave 2, 
> the Yamaha SY85 driver mentions that it doesn't respond and (my own 
> 'project' at the moment) the Kawai K1 also doesn't respond to a standard 
> MIDI device inquiry.
>
> I don't know about the SY85, but the K1 does have its own Machine ID 
> request which seems a similar sort of thing so it may be relatively 
> simple to refactor the code so that it sends a device inquiry then, if 
> it doesn't get a response, loops round the installed device drivers 
> checking for any that might have their own ID request etc....
>
> John
>
>
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