Emu XL-7 & MP-7 User's Group

On 1/9/03 3:39 PM, "Aaron Eppolito" <synthesis77@...> wrote:

> Yeah, that was the idea of using text events.  Since there's no
> standard on how pattern chaining should be expressed in a Standard MIDI
> File (despite some work being done by the SMF Looping/Branching Working
> Group), I chose text events so they could be edited in most any
> sequencer and hopefully not be stripped out like a sequencer specific
> message.

Aaron I was surprised by the statement about pattern chaining in an SMF, not
because I know different (I don't) but because I was under the assumption
that the whole reason Dave Oppenheim pushed for the Type-2 SMF format was to
allow subsequences, which in my mind always included the simpler case of a
bunch of chained sequences.  Are we both right because type-2 was not an
option to use because it was not ever widely implemented (was it ever
implemented outside of Opcode's Studio Vision?)?

Sorry for the spurious interrupt.  The subject is probably not of much
interest to anyone else.  Just my curiosity.


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