Can't send SysEx data with tracktion::MidiOutputDevice::fireMessage()

Tracktion Engine
1

I want to send SysEx data to a physical midiout port.

My attempts to try it with tracktion::MidiOutputDevice::fireMessage() didn’t work. Seems like this function doesn’t handle SysEx data.

void MidiOutputDevice::fireMessage (const juce::MidiMessage& message)
{
    if (! message.isMetaEvent())
    {
        sendMessageNow (message);

        if (message.isNoteOnOrOff())
        {
            const juce::ScopedLock sl (noteOnLock);

            if (message.isNoteOn())
                midiNotesOn.setBit (message.getNoteNumber());
            else if (message.isNoteOff())
                midiNotesOn.clearBit (message.getNoteNumber());

            channelsUsed.setBit (message.getChannel());
        }
        else if (message.isController() && message.getControllerNumber() == 64)
        {
            sustain = message.getControllerValue();
        }
    }
}

Is there a special reason for this? Whats the correct way to send SysEx data to an external midi device?

2

I’m not quite sure why sysex isn’t allowed here. We can probably relax that…
Can I ask the use case so I can think about it in a bit more detail?