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Synth Module by Roland (1987) Primarily used for high quality music output in PC games along with the Roland Sound Canvas series, Gus Ultrasound and others.
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Me and the MT-32
Image Id: 71 Uploaded by atchoo


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Date upload: 09 June, 2022
Downloads: 1

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Category: Other
Description: A message for the MT-32 LCD-screen consists of the following parts:


F0 (start of sysex-message)

41 (Roland manufacturer ID)

10 (device ID)

16 (model ID)

12 (command ID)

20 (20 00 00 indicates that you want to display something on the MT-32 screen)

00
00 
text in hexadecimal (Instructions below)

Checksum

F7 (end of sysex-message)

(https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=16006)

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Converting the ascii text to hexadecimal

In this example we'll convert the word "test" to hexadecimal from a bash shell (terminal):

echo test | hexdump -C

# Output:
# 00000000 74 65 73 74 0a |test.|
# 00000005

= 74 65 73 74 0A

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Calculating the Roland MT-32 checksum

https://modernretro.epizy.com/roland-d50-checksum.html

Data field value:
The value for the Data field should be "20 00 00" followed by the text in hexadecimals,
i.e.:
"20 00 00 74 65 73 74 0A"

Calculated checksum = 16

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Writing to the MT-32 display

Sysex message

F0 41 10 16 12 20 00 00 74 65 73 74 0A 16 F7
Head: F0 41 10 16 12 20 00 00 74 65 73 74 0A 16 F7
Downloads: 4

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Category: Data Dump Request
Description: Timbre Memory.
Midi channell should be 1.
Channel Byte is after F0 41
Head: F0 00 41 00 00 00 16 00 11 00 08 00 00 00 00 00
Downloads: 13

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Category: Data Dump Request
Description: Patch Memory.
Midi channell should be 1.
Channel Byte is after F0 41
Head: F0 00 41 00 00 00 16 00 11 00 05 00 00 00 00 00
Downloads: 8

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Category: Data Dump Request
Description: System Area.
Midi channell should be 1.
Channel Byte is after F0 41
Head: F0 00 41 00 00 00 16 00 11 00 10 00 00 00 00 00
Downloads: 9

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