[LAD] Sending huge SysEx files via ALSA

Hi,

I'm currently playing with some code that sends SysEx data to ALSA using
RtMidi¹. I get an error reported by the latter one as soon as the size of the
message exceeds 16355 bytes. Unfortunately, I have such SysEx files of two
devices (namely a Waldorf Microwave I and a Digitech Studio Quad).

Can anyone comment whether this is a limitation in ALSA, and in case it is if
there are coding workarounds? AFAIR ALSA splits incoming SysEx-events into
chunks of 256 bytes if necessary. But I obviously overlooked that sending is
much harder when I played with SysEx data the last time :) .

Best regards,

ce

¹ http://www.music.mcgill.ca/~gary/rtmidi/

uname -a
Linux Grandevitesse 2.6.28-11-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 17 01:57:59 UTC
2009 i686 GNU/Linux

cat /proc/asound/version
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.18rc3.

rtmidi-1.0.10

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Received on Mon Jul 27 04:15:04 2009