Many thanks for sharing! I'd never heard of GS-Panel, but it looks like a very handy utility. One of my favourites concerning 100% Roland MPU-401 compatibles is mputhru by NewRisingSUn. It allows you to send some MPU commands to the MPU from the command-line, which alter the way in which System Exclusive messages are routed by the MPU. By doing so, it allows you to use your SCC-1 or LAPC-I from another computer as if it were just a regular external module. See this thread at QuestStudios for more information and a download link.

^ thanks for that, had no idea such a thing excisted! I hope this thread becomes some sort of index for such programs... 😊

I am attaching a package with .BAT files that sends reset SysEx to various devices (GM, GS, LA, XG) and a VOLUME70.SYX that sets CM-32L's internal master volume to 70% to prevent clipping in some games (X-Wing intro, Prehistorik , Cloudschatze provided the code here)

Is there a way to extract the SysEx data from the midis of the "MT-32 to GM" file hosted on Quest Studios here?

it would be a better solution IMHO to have dump.exe handle the SysEx data rather than having to play mid files...
tia!

Sure, here you go! 😀

^ amazing, thanks!!!!!!!

Lennart , is it possible to extract the SysEx data from the "DB-50XG -> MT-32 emulation" midi?
I am attaching the file here...
btw how do you do it? is there a sequencer or something that gives the option to extract/save SysEx data?
TIA! 😊

Here's what I use to enable the MT-32 emulation mode:

1    // Enable Roland CM/MT emulation //
2
3MPU_RESET   // Reset MPU-401 and enable UART mode
4
5XG_RESET    // Reset all parameters
6
7MODE=GS     // Enable GS mode
8
9B0 00 7F    // Select bank 7F on all channels
10B1 00 7F    // Bx = Control Change, x = channel
11B2 00 7F    // 00 = Bank Select MSB
12B3 00 7F    // 7F = Bank no.
13B4 00 7F
14B5 00 7F
15B6 00 7F
16B7 00 7F
17B8 00 7F
18B9 00 7F
19BA 00 7F
20BB 00 7F
21BC 00 7F
22BD 00 7F
23BE 00 7F
24BF 00 7F
25
26F0 43 10 4C 08 00 40 00 F7  // SYSEX 08 nn 40 = Ignore Bank Select messages on Part nn.
27F0 43 10 4C 08 01 40 00 F7
28F0 43 10 4C 08 02 40 00 F7
29F0 43 10 4C 08 03 40 00 F7
30F0 43 10 4C 08 04 40 00 F7
31F0 43 10 4C 08 05 40 00 F7
32F0 43 10 4C 08 06 40 00 F7
33F0 43 10 4C 08 07 40 00 F7
34F0 43 10 4C 08 08 40 00 F7
35F0 43 10 4C 08 09 40 00 F7
36F0 43 10 4C 08 0A 40 00 F7
37F0 43 10 4C 08 0B 40 00 F7
38F0 43 10 4C 08 0C 40 00 F7
39F0 43 10 4C 08 0D 40 00 F7
40F0 43 10 4C 08 0E 40 00 F7
41F0 43 10 4C 08 0F 40 00 F7

With this program:
<link removed, see below for new version>

I wrote this program specifically for the DB60XG, to enable the A/D input and change reverb/chorus parameters. It'll work with any MIDI device however. It takes MIDI/SysEx data in plaintext, for easy editing.

^ awesome! thanks for sharing jwt27!

I hope this thread becomes some sort of index of "scattered knowledge" and programs that need to be known 😀

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Lennart , is it possible to extract the SysEx data from the "DB-50XG -> MT-32 emulation" midi?
I am attaching the file here...
btw how do you do it? is there a sequencer or something that gives the option to extract/save SysEx data?
TIA! 😊

Switching the DB50XG (or SC-55 for that matter) to MT-32 "compatible" mode involves a bit more than only SysEx, as you also need some bank select messages. I'm not sure whether a utility such as dump.exe would allow you to mix SysEx with regular MIDI messages in a *.syx file.

For extracting SysEx from a MIDI file I used a handy little program for OS X called SysEx Librarian. As the name suggests, you can use it store frequently used SysEx messages, which you can then send to a target MIDI driver with the click of a button. In addition, it has a record option for recording SysEx from a MIDI input stream. I played the MIDI file with a MIDI player, which outputs the MIDI to SysEx Librarian, which in turn recorded the included SysEx to a file. Probably not the fastest way, but very easy and free.

As the title of this thread suggests that this thread is about DOS/Win utilities, I should probably also mention MIDI-OX and MIDI-Yoke. 🤣 MIDI-OX has a very elaborate MIDI monitor and it wouldn't surprise me if you could also record SysEx with it.

Thanks for the explanation and links Lennart 😀

Here's an updated version of MIDICOM.

I just discovered and squashed one bug which actually broke the MT-32 emulation stuff somewhat... Games that use the last midi channels might not have sounded correctly with the previous version.

Also added some new convenient commands like BANK_MSB=cc=nn to quickly change bank number on all channels.

Get it here: http://code.google.com/p/midicom/

^ awesome!!!
thanks for sharing jwt27! 😀

You're welcome 😀

It was a pretty stupid bug though... Any raw midi bytes were saved up in a string and sent all in one go. Of course, the maximum string length in Pascal is only 255 bytes.. And the file I posted above (MT32.CFG) already used 384 in a row.
It's now sending every line separately. So as long as you don't stack up 255 bytes (= 127 midi bytes) on one line it won't cause any problems.