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Status ?

Archive · 2012 3 old posts

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lwaver ·

Is that SM takes into account just the MIDI Status 176 ? Because when I assign the status eg 184, nothing is happening. why?

trogluddite ·

In this case, 'Status' just refers to the message type. In genuine MIDI messages the message type and MIDI channel are combined into a single byte, with the upper four bits as the type, and lower four bits as Channel minus one (i.e. 0-15). Because of this, the status value will always be a multiple of 16 once the lower four bits have been separated out to get the Channel value. Status values begin at 128, so that the highest bit is always set - this bit is used to indicate the start of a new message (hence data values only go from 0 to 127).

Valid values for 'Status' are...

128 Note Off (data1=note, data2=velocity) 144 Note On (data1=note, data2=velocity) 160 Poly Aftertouch (data1=note, data2=AT amount) 176 Continuous Controller (data1=CC number, data2=value) 192 Program Change (data1=prog.no., data 2 ignored) 208 Channel Aftertouch (data1=AT amount, data2 ignored) 224 Pitch Bend (data1=coarse, data2=fine) 240 Start SysEx message (needs to use dedicated SysEx primitives)

In raw MIDI, a value of 184 would be equivalent to; Type = Controller (176), Channel = 9 - but in SM you have to use the two separate values at their own inputs/outputs otherwise the message will get scrambled by the primitives.

lwaver ·

I understand very well now. well thank you troglodyte!

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