Roland TD-12 Midi Implementation Manual page 12

TD-12 MIDI Implementation
<Example 5> 99 2C 7F B9 04 7F 04 40
9n is the Note-on status, and n is the MIDI channel number. BnH is the Control
Change status, and n is the MIDI channel number. Thus, the above messages have
the following meaning.
99 2C 7F MIDI ch.10, NOte On message
B9 04 7F (MIDI ch.10) foot controller:
(B9) 04 40 (MIDI ch.10) foot controller:
In other words, with these messages a Note On message with a note number of 44
(G#2) and velocity of 127 is transmitted on MIDI Channel 10, and then the foot
controller value is set from 127 to 64.
According to the setting made at the factory, the drum part is assigned to MIDI
Channel 10, Note Number 44 is assigned to the pedal hi-hat, and the foot controller
is set to Pedal CC; in this case, the TD-12 plays a foot splash when the message is
received.
■Calculation of the Checksum of Exclusive
Messages
Roland Exclusive messages (DT1) are transmitted with a checksum at the end
(before F7) to make sure that the message was correctly received. The value of the
checksum is determined by the address and data of the transmitted exclusive
message.
●How to calculate the checksum
(hexadecimal numbers are indicated by 'H')
The checksum is a value derived by adding the address, data and checksum itself
and inverting the lower 7 bits.
Here's an example of how the checksum is calculated. We will assume that in the
exclusive message we are transmitting, the address is aa bb cc ddH and the data is
ee ff gg hhH.
aa + bb + cc + dd + ee + ff + gg + hh = sum
sum ÷ 128 = quotient ... remainder
128 - remainder = checksum
(However, the checksum will be 0 if the remainder is 0.)
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7FH
40H