Hi,
I came across some other points while playing that might be of interest.

On Linux, I realized there's a simple way to see exactly what your device is sending:

   od -tu1 -An -w3 </dev/midi1

-- adjusted for whatever device you're using.
(unsigned decimal bytes, no address field, 3 bytes/line)

The output is neat, as long as you only send 3-byte messages.
Alternatively you could use '-w1' and see each byte as it's sent.

On the matter of "Running Status", I found that neither of my keyboards
ever sends it.  I guess it would be pretty pointless for the USB connection,
but my older serial-MIDI one doesn't either.

Thinking about "True Note Off" with its release velocity, I realized it might
be nice to have -- a light release could increase decay time ,  for instance --
so I did a bit of web walking to see if I could find which keyboard controllers
provide it.  Not all that many, it seems, according to the forum posts I found.

Kutzweils and some Rolands do, and a few others that I didn't recognize.
Some of them, though, seem to just have a fixed velocity, which wouldn't
gain you anything.  Most of the popular makes seem to stick to 'Note-on-0'.

	-- Pete --

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