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That's not Roland being genius, though. That's kind of literally one of the things sysex messages were added to the MIDI 1.0 spec. It's also why it's taking so
by TheRealPomax 8y ago
That's not Roland being genius, though. That's kind of literally one of the things sysex messages were added to the MIDI 1.0 spec. It's also why it's taking so effing long for webmidi to become a standard, because allowing sysex would mean your browser could in theory tell your midi device to brick itself.
- jdietrich 8y agoIn fairness, Roland founded the MMA and wrote most of the MIDI spec. The odds are fairly good that Roland did invent SysEx.
- jeffrom 8y agoI thought Dave Smith was primarily responsible? Just to put another notch in Silicon Valley’s belt, I guess.
- jdietrich 8y agoDave Smith was the first to get on board with the project and made substantial contributions to the design of MIDI, but it was Ikutaro Kakehashi who started the whole endeavour. MIDI was heavily influenced by DCB, a proprietary interface developed by Roland in 1981.
- dkersten 8y agoYep, when I did a little work for the Midifighter[1] controller, I used sysex to send configuration (but not firmware updates) to the device, to be stored in EEPROM. It was a nice and seamless mechanism. [1] https://www.midifighter.com/ https://www.midifighter.com/ I made the first version of the configuration tool.
- aksakalli 8y agoI also updated my TC Electronic Nova System via MIDI as well. It is a common feature across other MIDI devices.