Midi Merge Technique?

[John Speth]

> > Is it legal for a system realtime message (F8, FA, FB, FC) 
> to occur *during*
> > another message ?

> That's the bad news.  The good news is that, unless I am 
> mistaken, such
> messages are the only ones that begin 11111xxx, with bits 7-3 
> set high 
> (low current), so it would be easy to weed these out.

Yes, and that's exactly the kind of clue we need to support that system RT
messages can occur at any time.  That's why system RT messages are single
byte with a 0xF0 header.

Isn't this in the MIDI 1.0 Spec?

John Speth
Molectron Detector, Inc.
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