How to add Roland Checksum for a sendSysEx [Solved]

To actually calculate it, the standard is something like sum all the bytes in the array and truncate to 7 bits, or sum all the bytes and subtract from 256, or …

The Roland manuals are usually pretty good about telling you somewhere how it’s done.

Alternatively, if you have an editor like HexEdit, you can take a dump with a checksum and calculate various ways across the data bytes until you match what is there

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