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First post, by Amdahl

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If at first you don't succeed, push every button combination until you do. At this time, the manual can be found at ftp://ftp.roland.co.uk/productsupport/MT-100/ … 1_MT-100_OM.pdf

Roland MT-100 button combos that are somewhat useful:

Stop + BEAT/MEAS = Set THRU On/Off w/turn dial, then Execute. (Play MIDI IN, hooray!) You can use FWD/BWD to select other options as well. You can record this change to the saved settings(used during power-on) by holding the REC button while you press Execute.

Stop + Delete, then Execute = All Clear

Sound Control + Delete, then Execute = All Reset

Sound Control + Sound, then BWD or FWD, then Dial, then Execute = select patches for each instrument.

Sound Control + Volume, then BWD or FWD, then Dial, then Execute = select volume for each instrument.

Sound Control + Play, (Use the wheel to select a specific song) then Play = Plays a demo. (Stop or Play then work to stop or continue.)

I got the All Clear and All Reset from elsewhere on the web.

On USB MIDI adapters: I tried EMU Xmidi 1x1 USB MIDI interface w/MT-100 in WinXP with latest EMU drivers, and with only the Microsoft default drivers and SysEx did not seem to work. All music played with incorrect sounds.

I tried M-Audio USB Midisport Uno MIDI interface w/MT-32+MT-100 in WinXP and OS X. It worked fine with the default Microsoft drivers and in OSX. With the latest M-Audio Windows drivers installed, I got blue screens. If you know you don't need the M-Audio drivers, this seems to be a suitable device, although Amazon reviewers have noted a number of compatibility issues with other MIDI hardware.

Last edited by Amdahl on 2010-03-22, 23:56. Edited 2 times in total.

Reply 1 of 8, by HunterZ

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A word of warning on the Uno: There are actually two versions of it - one that is plug-n-play and one that is not.

Unfortunately I ended up with the older, non-pnp version. It works fine on my Windows XP machines, but not with my Win7 x64 machine because M-audio has not released a driver for that OS.

I recently picked up an E-mu Xmidi Tab from Creative/Amazon and my MT-32 and SC-88 are working fine with Win7 x64 (tested some .MID files in Windows Media Player and some old Cakewalk projects with Music Creator).

I won't be buying M-Audio products ever again, as they've been dragging their feet on Vista/Win7 x64 drivers for their MIDI interfaces since before Vista was released!

Reply 4 of 8, by skate323k137

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"Stop + BEAT/MEAS = Set THRU On/Off w/turn dial, then Execute. (Play MIDI IN, hooray!) "

This worked great for me. All I had to do was set THRU ON from OFF, and now my mt-100 works great. Got it for 50 bucks "broken" because it "would not respond to midi"

Celebration time!

Also, does the mt-100 have a battery like the sc-55 that I should change out? I opened it and look a quick look, didn't see one. Perhaps they expect you to use the QD (quick disk).

Reply 5 of 8, by ShaiWa

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skate323k137 wrote on 2018-08-01, 15:22:
"Stop + BEAT/MEAS = Set THRU On/Off w/turn dial, then Execute. (Play MIDI IN, hooray!) " […]
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"Stop + BEAT/MEAS = Set THRU On/Off w/turn dial, then Execute. (Play MIDI IN, hooray!) "

This worked great for me. All I had to do was set THRU ON from OFF, and now my mt-100 works great. Got it for 50 bucks "broken" because it "would not respond to midi"

Celebration time!

Also, does the mt-100 have a battery like the sc-55 that I should change out? I opened it and look a quick look, didn't see one. Perhaps they expect you to use the QD (quick disk).

Did you ever figure out to get this default to ON?
Got my second one today also claimed to be broken of the same reason, Setting THRU to ON fixed the problemen but after powering off the unit the THRU option is OFF again.
On my first unit this is the oposite, it is default ON. Even after setting it to OFF an power cycle the unit.
Both units are V4.00 so i'm a bit confused about this 🙁

[Edit] Found the answer on page 49 of the owner manual, Stop+Beat -> Set Thru to ON with Dial -> Hold REC and then Execute. Now its saved even after reset 😀 Hope this will help someone with the same problem.

Reply 6 of 8, by skate323k137

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ShaiWa wrote on 2021-06-13, 19:06:
Did you ever figure out to get this default to ON? Got my second one today also claimed to be broken of the same reason, Setting […]
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skate323k137 wrote on 2018-08-01, 15:22:
"Stop + BEAT/MEAS = Set THRU On/Off w/turn dial, then Execute. (Play MIDI IN, hooray!) " […]
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"Stop + BEAT/MEAS = Set THRU On/Off w/turn dial, then Execute. (Play MIDI IN, hooray!) "

This worked great for me. All I had to do was set THRU ON from OFF, and now my mt-100 works great. Got it for 50 bucks "broken" because it "would not respond to midi"

Celebration time!

Also, does the mt-100 have a battery like the sc-55 that I should change out? I opened it and look a quick look, didn't see one. Perhaps they expect you to use the QD (quick disk).

Did you ever figure out to get this default to ON?
Got my second one today also claimed to be broken of the same reason, Setting THRU to ON fixed the problemen but after powering off the unit the THRU option is OFF again.
On my first unit this is the oposite, it is default ON. Even after setting it to OFF an power cycle the unit.
Both units are V4.00 so i'm a bit confused about this 🙁

[Edit] Found the answer on page 49 of the owner manual, Stop+Beat -> Set Thru to ON with Dial -> Hold REC and then Execute. Now its saved even after reset 😀 Hope this will help someone with the same problem.

Very nice! I dug my MT-100 back out after seeing floppy emulators on eBay. I was able to install one and it works great. I also noticed this in the manual but thank you so much for posting it!

Here's a pic of the unit after install. Save/load works fine and the USB floppy emulator device is really neat.

To use an MT-32 or MT-100 for dosbox or midi files I recommend a Roland UM-ONE MK2 with drivers installed on your system from Roland's website. This allows sysex etc to work, better than a generic USB midi interface.

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Reply 7 of 8, by Onosendai

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> Save/load works fine and the USB floppy emulator device is really neat. To use an MT-32 or MT-100 for dosbox or midi files I recommend a Roland UM-ONE MK2 with drivers installed on your system from Roland's website. This allows sysex etc to work, better than a generic USB midi interface.

Can you add MIDI files with your floppy emulator ? What do you do with it ? Do you know some image archive for the MT-100 ?

Reply 8 of 8, by skate323k137

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Onosendai wrote on 2022-11-16, 20:56:

> Save/load works fine and the USB floppy emulator device is really neat. To use an MT-32 or MT-100 for dosbox or midi files I recommend a Roland UM-ONE MK2 with drivers installed on your system from Roland's website. This allows sysex etc to work, better than a generic USB midi interface.

Can you add MIDI files with your floppy emulator ? What do you do with it ? Do you know some image archive for the MT-100 ?

The Floppy function on the MT-100 was for storing sequencing data on quickdisk disks. You may know this but the MT-100 is an MT-32 main board with a whole sequencer machine crammed on top in the same box. It's not exactly the same use scenario but this should explain a lot for you and also the comments talk about how gotek supports this with the proper firmware https://amsynths.co.uk/2019/08/08/roland-quic … disk-emulation/

Data wise, the guy who made the MT-100 gotek kit preloaded the USB card for me with a tonne of blank disk images, and some disks with demo songs that they had put together. He did ask that I not distribute that data though.