Does Ardour 3 support sysex messages, nrps, and rps

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#1

Hi,

I am hoping to move completely to Ardour since it now supports MIDI. I use hardware synths and need to send sysex messages(not dumps, would be nice, if Jack supports it now though) and other nprs and rps to these devices. Basically I am hoping for the same kind of support Rosegarden has for them.

Is there a MIDI spec sheet?

Thanks so much.

Sean

#2

Ardour can deliver and receive all of the above with the following limitations:

  • sysex messages are limited in size (they can be fairly large, but no large than a single JACK MIDI buffer, whose size is user controllable in JACK1 but not in JACK2
  • nrp and rps are just standard MIDI controller messages that have particular semantics. Ardour can deliver & recieve them, but does not honor the special semantics

There are still many workflow issues to be resolved with MIDI. Basic stuff works, more advanced sequencing is painful.

#3

Thanks, for the replay, Paul.

It’s a new feature, so I was expecting some limitations.

So, the sysex, nprs, and rps are able to be sequenced events, right? If so, It should be enough.

I hope that fine-tuning the MIDI workflow has some attention planed for to it.

Thanks again,

Sean

#4

Intense work for MIDI is planned once the new “cairocanvas” branch is released, which will finally provide us with a powerful, portable, fast, flexible system for drawing the main editor window in ways that we haven’t had access to. After that, its MIDI all the way for a while.

#5

This is good news paul. good good news :slight_smile: