On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 9:26 PM, Peter Billam <p...@pjb.com.au> 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
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