Increase midi.sendSysex 256 bytes limit

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I spent hours trying to find what was I doing wrong with some sysex strings, until I went to the manual and read the note about the limitation.

I know there must be a reason for that, but could it ever be increased?

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Just to make sure. This is mk1 related. Is that correct?

The limit is there due to memory constraints. As I am backporting functionality from mk2 to mk1, this will be most likely resolved in upcoming update. When done, the limit will be amount of the free memory (for the lua table).

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Thanks for the clarification Martin.
Yes, mk1. The documentation says

midi.sendSysex (port, data)

A function to send a Sysex MIDI message. Currently limited to 256 bytes.

There is no mention of being a limit to mk1.

It makes sense that the limit is due to memory. I think mk1 should keep a memory reserved to be at least the 256, to avoid any lua script using all the memory and not even being able to use the 256.