>[...] > need for something like that to be rather less nowadays > (certainly I do nearly everything with software synths and I > can't conceive of a way to set them all up automatically at the > beginning of a song without using a fairly rigid framework like > Buzz on the PC where you do all your sound generation internally > or using plugins, nothing like ALSA or Jack), but there was a > time when it was very necessary. Necessary as in "Oh my god, I > have 700 banks on this floppy, which one was I using when I > wrote this song?!" lol! so true. but as any half-decent midi sequencer already, has the inate ability to send and receive sysex, i beleive ladcca is (will be) a more general solution, ie it will load your arrangement tool, jackd, all softsynths etc and load the correct data into them at the press of a button. http://pkl.net/~node/ladcca.html cheers -- Tim Orford
