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Re: [Evolver] Sysex VS MIDI CC traffic

Re: [Evolver] Sysex VS MIDI CC traffic

2004-05-13 by mr julian

From: "dflat9sus4" <dflat9sus4@...>

> I just wanted to throw my .02 cents in here, and say that one thing
> we need to keep in mind using Sysex instead of MIDI CC is the amount
> of MIDI traffic you're going to generate when tweaking a knob.  MIDI
> CC only takes 3 bytes to send a new value, so every time you tweak a
> knob a small amount, only 3 bytes per value are sent.
>
actually, it's only 2 bytes if the last message was also a CC.
:-)

> see if you can "play" the Edirol in realtime without causing the
> Evolver to "choke" on the extra MIDI data.  That is... if you're

Tweaking with a PC1600, while playing the evolver, and having a bunch of
other stuff on the same MIDI cable, I didn't notice any jamming up of the
MIDI cable..... then again I don't really go for heavy parameter
automation...




julian

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