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PART 12: Martin Russ concludes this 12-part series designed to demystify one of MIDI's most important and useful messages.

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Martin Russ continues his detailed investigation into the inner secrets of MIDI's most powerful messages.

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PART 11: Martin Russ explains how he overcame some puzzling MIDI problems on a Kawai R50 drum machine, and takes a SysEx eyes' view of the Alesis DataDisk.

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Martin Russ kicks off our new series by recapping on some MIDI basics before starting to demystify the secrets of MIDI's System Exclusive commands.

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PART 7: Martin Russ delves deeper into the secrets and applications of MIDI's System Exclusive messages.

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PART 2: Martin Russ reveals even more about the uses and applications of MIDI's most powerful function.

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PART 9: Martin Russ continues his mammoth in-depth analysis of MIDI's SysEx codes with an explanation of 'checksums'.

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PART 5: Martin Russ delves into the reasons why MIDI Controller messages are able to do what they can do and provides some practical examples.

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PART 10: Martin Russ continues his in-depth demystification of these powerful MIDI messages with a look at 'handshaking'.

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PART 8: Martin Russ explains the circular nature of parameter editing and data dumps.

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PART 4: Martin Russ provides some solid examples of how to utilise the hidden power of MIDI’s SysEx commands to reprogramme synths on-the-fly and to store snapshots of all your synth and effects patches on disk.

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PART 3: Martin Russ continues his in-depth explanation of MIDI's most misunderstood messages.

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