Patches and discussion for Ensoniq VFX family

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 02:47:17PM -0500, Steve Wahl wrote:
> 
> 	Running status is a midi feature that's been around from the
> 	begining of midi.  Status bytes have the high bit set (decimal
> 	value is greater than 127), other bytes don't.  For example, a
> 	note on message looks like A0 45 40 (in hexadecimal).  A0 is a
> 	status byte that says "this message is a NOTE ON message for
> 	midi channel 1." 45 is the note number, and 40 is the
> 	velocity.  If more note on messages need to be sent for
> 	channel 1, the sender is allowed to send just more note
> 	number, velocity byte pairs, without sending the initial byte,
> 	so: A0 45 40 47 42 would be two note on messages on midi
> 	channel 1, one for note 45 velocity of 40, one for note 47
> 	velocity of 42.

Sorry to reply to my own host, but I was screwed up in that
description.  Note on messages start with a 9, not an A, so the two
examples should be "90 45 40" and "90 45 40 47 42".   Sorry 'bout that.

--> Steve

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