Re: [fluid-dev] MIDI commands for reverb/chorus parameters

[Peter Billam]

Hi.  I wrote: 
> You could perhaps use one of the unused text_events ? 
> There's text_event_08 .. text_event_0f to choose from, and you have 
> all the length you want so could start with a "fluidsynth" string 
> to cut down on accidents from other software with similar ideas. 
> Likewise raw_meta_event, or even sequencer_specific ? 
 
Element Green rightly replied: 
> Where are you seeing the text events you mentioned? I did a search 
> and it looks like this may be with MIDI files, but not necessarily 
> MIDI event streams.  Can you confirm whether these are Sysex 
> commands or can be used with a normal (non MIDI file) event stream? 
 
Ah, silly me :-( Yes, of course. The text events could only be 
useful when playing a .mid file, but never in real-time midi. 
It really is only a SysEx that can handle an arbitrary-length 
text-string in real-time .... 
 
These are the events that ALSAMIDI (ie: realtime) recognises: 
 http://alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/alsa-lib/group___seq_events.html 
including SND_SEQ_EVENT_SYSEX but no text-events. 
 
Sorry 'bout that, 
Peter 
 
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