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

[Element Green]

On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 9:26 PM, Peter Billam <address@hidden> wrote:

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,

No problem.  I got excited though thinking that there might exist some general purpose Sysex commands ;-)

 

Peter

Cheers.

Element