[PD] Pduino sysex vs. OSC advice (Christof Ressi)

[Dan Wilcox]

> On Jun 1, 2016, at 5:41 PM, pd-list-request at lists.iem.at wrote:
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> b) reduce the range of possible values for your data (e.g. 0-127, like MIDI) and reserve the rest for addressing (128-255). If you need a greater resolution for your values, just break them up into several bytes. This way, sending a single 16 bit integer would take 4 bytes (address, bit 14-15, bit 13-7, bit 0-6). 

That’s a great point. Everyone complains about MIDI now (not enough range, etc) but it’s *perfect* for what it was designed to do: send small event data quickly on much older, slower hardware. I little bitmasking and away you go.

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