As you seem to be pretty au faix with sysex, I wonder if I could ask you, what the sysex string would be for these system common messages please 5p?

Apart from the standard F0 41.............F7

Start (0xFA),
Continue (0xFB)
Stop (0xFC).
MIDI Song Select (0xF3)

They are not going to the MOXF rather from one app to another (a smf player).

Although it is hard to get from the dev if the app uses sysex or hex?

I have never really used system common before, mainly dealing with instrument specific commands.

Thanks

miden - 07 February 2014 03:44 PM

As you seem to be pretty au faix with sysex, I wonder if I could ask you, what the sysex string would be for these system common messages please 5p?

Apart from the standard F0 41.............F7

Start (0xFA),
Continue (0xFB)
Stop (0xFC).
MIDI Song Select (0xF3)

They are not going to the MOXF rather from one app to another (a smf player).

Although it is hard to get from the dev if the app uses sysex or hex?

I have never really used system common before, mainly dealing with instrument specific commands.

Thanks

System Exclusive (SysEx) Messages can sometimes be complex. However, the System Real-Time Messages you listed are complete as you gave them. They have only a Status Byte....
Start Sequence is FA in hex (or 250 decimal)
Continue Sequence is FB in hex (or 251 decimal)
Stop Sequence is FC in hex (or 252 in decimal)
That’s it, there are no “strings” attached.  :-)

The System Common Song Select Message is comprised of two bytes.
First, the Status Byte…
1) F3 in hex (or 243 decimal)
That’s followed by a Data Byte, the Song Number…
2) 00~7F in hex (0~127 decimal)
For example, F3 00 will select the first Song.

Both the System Real-Time and the System Common Messages are independent of MIDI Channel.

EDIT: Edited my previous edit in recognition of no longer feeling redundant. Now anyone who reads this and the post that follows will be scratching their heads for sure.  :-)

Sorry m8, didn’t know you were getting on it so quick - I only changed it to redundant as the software I was going to buy cannot do some other stuff so I am leaving it behind.

Your efforts are not taken for granted I can tell you. I still didn’t know for sure (just guesstimates) until after your post, so that information was really helpful...it has been pasted to my MIDI “ways and means” file.

Oh and I redid the OP in case someone else may get a link via google, or whatever..

5pinDIN - 07 February 2014 04:41 PM

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EDIT: Edited my previous edit in recognition of no longer feeling redundant. Now anyone who reads this and the post that follows will be scratching their heads for sure.  :-)

LOL!! I am sure they will figure it....sort of!