Re: [Rosegarden-devel] sysex mystery

[Silvan <dmm...@us...>]

On Sunday 14 September 2003 02:55 pm, Chris Cannam wrote:
> On Sunday 14 September 2003 10:02, Guillaume Laurent wrote:
> > Can someone with actual MIDI equipment check if sysex events are
> > correctly played ?
>
> I have actual MIDI equipment, but I haven't a clue how to do anything
> involving sysex with it.

OK, I'm not a big sysex guy myself.  I have a file here with a sysex bank in 
it.  The bank is the result of my doing a dump on my synth, and recording it 
with Cakewalk a long time ago.  It's saved in the .mid file somehow, though I 
know nothing of the specifics.  I can't assure you that it worked before, but 
I _think_ the sysex in this was being imported and transmitted correctly 
after Pedro fixed it awhile back.

I've imported it, and there are a lot of "system exclusive" events in the 
event list.  No data beside any of them.  That doesn't look good.

OK.  I'm really a bit pressed, and don't have time to dig deeply, but as a 
quick test, I know the sysex in this should set reverb a certain way, and 
turn it on for certain channels.  That _is_ happening when I play the file.  
If I mess things up with the synth controls and hit play again, it 
consistently changes to the expected settings.

Just to make sure it's not being done with controllers, I grepped for 
controllers in the XML, and I came up with 7 and 10.  I don't remember what 
they do (pan and sustain?  volume?), but if neither one of them has anything 
to do with reverb, then this result is encouraging.

BTW, Guillaume, I see what Rich was talking about with the highlighting.  It 
used to be white, and now it's the default highlight color.  I don't like it 
as well this way.  In my case it's white on dark blue, and it's legible, but 
somehow it just doesn't look as appealing as the previous behavior.  It's not 
a huge thing either way though.

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