It’s all cool, dude! Both methods have their use. In fact, I’m minded now to try mixing both approaches by making a bar on my giant floater.. I can’t split the sysex, but if I know for example after the size calculation it will take exactly 2000ms to send, I could divide the total time number by 4 and fire the timer every (2000/4)=500ms to say 0%.. 25%… 50%.. 75%.. done – once I have done that “magic number’ calculation the rest is easy. Just the bar – not the midi! I still wish there was a way to actually interrogate the midi out buffer directly, but I think these are all good solutions 🙂
