Byte limitation in sysex command

Question

I have a decimal value of 416 that I need to convert LSB MSB. In hex this is 01A0 and in LSB MSB this would mean A0 01. However, when I enter this in the sysex string and press Apply the A0 is changed back to 7F. Am I doing the conversion correctly or did I stumble onto something?

Answer 1

Hi and thanks for your question.

All MIDI Message bytes (except the first, and maybe the last) are limited to 127 max value. A0 = 160 so it cannot be the right byte.

If you need to convert 416 into LSB MSB use the MIDI Byte Calculator. We created it just for this use. This link has your question AND answer in it.

http://mididesigner.com/help/midi-byte-calculator/?sum=416&number_of_bytes=2&lsb_first=on

Comments

Thank you for clearing that up. Now I can really get to work. :D

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Sure thing. Please give us a shout back if you have further questions.

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I have a question that needs to be solved but it's in another thread. This is the link. http://mididesigner.com/qa/1955/how-to-do-bank-select-in-my-case

Answer 2

Hi and thanks for your question.

All MIDI Message bytes (except the first, and maybe the last) are limited to 127 max value. A0 = 160 so it cannot be the right byte.

If you need to convert 416 into LSB MSB use the MIDI Byte Calculator. We created it just for this use. This link has your question AND answer in it.

http://mididesigner.com/help/midi-byte-calculator/?sum=416&number_of_bytes=2&lsb_first=on