Stec Special ROM V0.2 Users Guide
LUSP <go back to table of contents>

LUSP refers to the "Lexicon Universal SysEx Protocol" which was developed during the MPX 1 project. Though we have not gone public with the acronym, we have been using the protocol on all new MI products and probably will for now on. The intention of LUSP was to develop a single protocol that could be applied to all our products.

LUSP uses the concept of tree stucture not unlike a directory tree of a hard disk where, directories become menus on the system and files become parameters. So far, the protocol has worked very well on the MPX 1 but we wanted to check it on a fundamentally different type of system, so I implemented it on this new JamMan software.

I have begun work on a Windows based tool for the JamMan using LUSP but it's still in the early stages as I am trying to focus on the actual JamMan code. Ideally, an editor written in Java would probably be best because of it's platform independence but I'm not sure if it provides access to the MIDI ports. Anyone interested in helping out here should contract me directly (bsellon@lexicon.com put LUSP in the subject).

Some of the basic information about LUSP can be derived from the "MPX MIDI Implementation" Lexicon part #____ (email ghogan@lexicon.com for a copy).