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Subject: RE: [motm] MOTM-650 V1.3 RC1 bugs reported

From: jfm3 <jfm3@...>
Date: 2006-10-08

On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 09:35 -0600, Adam Schabtach wrote:
> The MIDI spec says that if the high bit of a byte--any byte--is
> set, then it's a Status byte, not a data byte. [See pages 4-5 of the
> MIDI
> spec] So in other words, could it be that "some software programs" are
> sending Status bytes that the 650 isn't expecting, rather than
> "'illegal'
> MIDI notes"?


I was thinking the same thing. Some status bytes can happen in the
middle of other multi-byte messages, if I recall correctly.