Send Sysex on mouse release

[Possemo]

I am trying to make a panel for a synth that only recognizes a whole sysex patch dump. MidiQuest has an elegant way to handle this: it sends a slider value (the whole patch with the altered value) on mouse release. Sending the whole patch at every modulator value change would probably crash the synth. Is there a way to do this in Ctrlr/Lua? This would probably be useful for a lot of old synths.

[dasfaker]

I think it’s not necessary to do it on mouse release. You can send it when modulator value change. The trick is to setup a timer that sends the data in intervals of time instead of every time a value change, but you must be sure that the last value change is always sent.

[Possemo]

Thanks dasfaker. I will try this out. Btw. I am on a Moog Source with the Encore SMK MIDI interface. It sends and receives two 4-bit nibbleized sysex bytes for each parameter. So most parameters have a resolution of 256 steps. To put this dump together will probably make some lag anyway. I will see how the SMK-Source reacts to this. The SMK upgrade dates from 1991, it is therefore already “vintage” itself altough the firmware has been updated from time to time.

• This reply was modified 8 years, 1 month ago by Possemo.

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