Roland F-50 - IMPORTANT NOTES; Power Supply, Placement, Maintenance, and Precautions

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**RPN**
F-50 can transmit Master fine tuning (RPN #1) and RPN null. After sending the master fine
tune, immediately the RPN Null shall be sent.
RPN Data entry
MSB LSB MSB LSB Explanation
00H 01H mmH llH Master Fine Tuning
mm, ll: 00 00H - 40 00H - 7F 7FH (-100 - 0 - +99.9 cents)
7FH 7FH --- --- RPN null
● Program Change
Status 2nd byte
CnH ppH
n = MIDI channel number: 0H-FH (ch.1-ch.16)
pp = Program number: 00H..40H (prog.1..prog.65)
* For the correspondence between Program Change numbers and Tones, please refer to
“Program Change” in “1. Receive Data.”
■System Realtime Message
● Active sensing
Status
FEH
* This will be transmitted constantly at intervals of approximately 210 msec.
■System exclusive messages
“Identity Reply” and “Data Set 1 (DT1)” are the only System Exclusive messages
transmitted by F-50.
The exclusive message of F-50 data has a model ID of 1AH, and device ID is defined by
MIDI UNIT NUMBER.
UNIT NUMBER is always the same as the current MIDI Tx/Rx channel.
● Universal Non-realtime System Exclusive Messages
❍ Identity Reply
Status Data byte Status
F0H 7EH, dev, 06H, 02H, 41H, 1AH, 00H, 06H, 02H, 02H, 01H, 00H, 00H F7H
Byte
Explanation
F0H Exclusive status
7EH ID number (universal non-realtime message)
dev Device ID (dev: UNIT#-1)
06H Sub ID#1 (General Information)
02H Sub ID#2 (Identity Reply)
41H ID number (Roland)
1AH Device family code (LSB)
00H Device family code (MSB)
06H Device family number code (LSB)
02H Device family number code (MSB)
02H,01H,00H,00H Software revision level
F7H EOX (End of Exclusive)
*When Identity Request is received, Identity Reply message will be transmitted.
● Data transmission
❍ Data set 1 DT1
Status Data byte Status
F0H 41H, dev, 1AH, 12H, aaH, bbH, ddH, sum F7H
Byte Explanation
F0H Exclusive status
41H ID number (Roland)
dev Device ID (dev: UNIT#-1)
1AH Model ID (F-50)
12H Command ID (DT1)
aaH Address MSB: upper byte of the starting address of the data to be sent
bbH Address LSB: lower byte of the starting address of the data to be sent.
ddH Data: the actual data to be sent.
sum Checksum
F7H EOX (End Of Exclusive)
* Regarding the address please refer to section 3 (Parameter Address Map).
* Regarding the checksum please refer to section 4 (Supplementary material).
Section 3. Parameter Address Map
(Model ID = 1AH)
All the numbers of address, size, Data, and Default Value are indicated in 7-bit
Hexadecimal-form.
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| address(H) | data(H) | Description |
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| 01 03 | 00—7F | Reverb Type |
| | | 00H — 0FH : Type 1 |
| | | 10H — 1FH : Type 2 |
| | | 20H — 2FH : Type 3 |
| | | 30H — 3FH : Type 4 |
| | | 40H — 4FH : Type 5 |
| | | 50H — 5FH : Type 6 |
| | | 60H — 6FH : Type 7 |
| | | 70H — 7FH : Type 8 |
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