[A6] A6 bank manager etc

[Geoff Moehrke]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: a6-admin at code404.com [mailto:a6-admin at code404.com] On 
>Behalf Of Reid
>
>See, obnoxious but necessary. Of course you have to reverse the 
>process at the receiving end to see the proper data. Not all Alesis 
>MIDI products change the bits in exactly this way, others use a 
>different bit order but the reasoning is the same.
>
>If you want to get at other data in the Bank (not recommended! very 
>highly not!) 

Reid - Thanks for the thorough explanation of the "7/8 encoding" (I
agree it's a better term than packing/unpacking).  The one nice thing
with the A6 as opposed to the QS is that the parameters are not packed
in like they are on the QS buffers.  Getting to individual parameters in
the QS patch buffers often involved bit-shifting operations and such - a
real pain.  Looks like the A6 buffers will be a bit easier to address.
Even if you have to do some byte-swapping - that's much less painful
than  all that shifting and ORing...

-Geoff Moehkre