[A6] A6 bank manager etc

[David Evans]

On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 08:04:20PM +0200, Mark Strijbos wrote:
> 
> who came up with this idea of sending "packed" data bytes that 
> actually take up more space & time to transmit than the raw stuff? 
> the mind really boggles, what's the advantage of doing things in this 
> awkward way?
> 

  Perhaps there are hardware optimisations that make this the preferred way
to do things.  I think that, e.g, the weirdnesses of the DX7's sysex are
dictated by the dumps following the register maps for the voice hardware.
I know that back when I was designing a wavetable synth the hardware had a
register map that looked quite bizarre to the software but was the natural
way to do things.

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