> With CPU speeds being what they are today I'd expect in-stream sysex > would be a given for Rosegarden and MusE. Werner ? Chris ? Richard ? I think they can do a sysex stream during playback (don't quote me on that). which is weird to me. it seems like it a sysex librarian that's not operating during playback and is just used to do non-realtime dumps would be easier to deal with, both for the developers and for the hardware. but from what I can figure out, Rosegarden and muse and most of them don't have that feature, but DO have realtime sysex streaming - *shrug* > Sequencer Plus Gold included a nifty patch librarian that supported > quite a variety of machines. I'd love to see something like that in RG > or MusE too. Maybe in the future ? that would be great. there was something REALLY fantastic about the cakewalk sysex librarian. it didn't NEED to support your machine. there were several hundred scripts for querying certain machines (and you could write your own), but none of my machines were supported. didn't matter. you just pick "wait for manual dump" and dump from your machine. when you dumped back, it didn't matter, you just tell cakewalk "dump" and if the syx file was formatted for the machine, the machine would respond. > Skip glib. The pyramids of Giza are younger... *laugh* so it seemed! > JS will work for you if it supports your synths. I worked with Torsten > on the TX802 stuff, frankly I think he did a terrific job. In Linux MIDI > software JS is the closest thing to my old Bacchus and Sideman editors, > or to the graphic editors for the Mac and other 68k machines. But JS > could certainly use some more developers... :( it has support for the Alesis QS series - do you know if this equates to the S4/quadrasynths? i can't quite remember. again, ideally it wouldn't matter unless you were editing patches, which I may or may not do - right now I just want to dump preformed .syx files > Cranky me would love to see a MIDI-only sequencer for Linux, i.e., with > absolutely no audio support. But I'm not too distressed: I can run > Sequencer Plus in DOSemu just fine, and I've recently been playing with > Master Tracks Pro in Xsteem (an Atari ST emulator), with pretty good > results too... I might have to try sequencer plus just for fun. maybe it'll run better than cakewalk (cakewalk goes kind of haywire right now). yes I do would love to see sequencers without audio. I'm never gonna put friggin audio in a sequence, that's what multitrackers and samplers are for. to me, sync the sequencer to tape (or "tape", as it were) is the way, baby! :)
