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- Synths may send sysex data in various formats. Use this cycle gadget
- to indicate the data format being used by your synth:
-
- STANDARD FORMAT: This is the most common format. 7 bit format.
-
- NIBBLE HI/LO: 8 bits are sent as two (2) 4 bit nibbles, the
- high nibble is transmitted first;
- i.e. HHHHLLLL sent as 0000HHHH 0000LLLL
-
- NIBBLE LO/HI: 8 bits are sent as two (2) 4 bit nibbles, the
- low nibble is transmitted first;
- i.e. HHHHLLLL sent as 0000LLLL 0000HHHH
-
- KORG M1: Format used by the Korg M1, M3R, T1, T2 and T3.
- Seven 8 bit bytes are sent as eight bytes. The
- 1st bit of each of the seven bytes are stripped
- to make the eighth byte, and that new byte is
- sent first;
- i.e. FXXXXXXX FXXXXXXX FXXXXXXX FXXXXXXX
- FXXXXXXX FXXXXXXX FXXXXXXX
- is sent as
- 0FFFFFFF 0XXXXXXX 0XXXXXXX 0XXXXXXX
- 0XXXXXXX 0XXXXXXX 0XXXXXXX 0XXXXXXX
-
- 8-BIT -> 7-BIT: A string of consecutive bits is sent in 7-bit
- chunks.
- i.e. AAAAAAAB BBBBBBCC CCCCCDDD is sent as
- 0AAAAAAA 0BBBBBBB 0CCCCCCC 0DDD....
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