Case study

Tanzmaus Sysex Parser: decoding MFB Tanzmaus bank dumps

Tanzmaus Sysex Parser investigates MFB Tanzmaus MIDI SysEx bank dumps. It decodes the 7-bit transport encoding into pattern payloads, maps step, mute, flam, knob and LFO fields, and supplies scripts for extracting and comparing individual patterns.

Targets: Protocol
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
Evidence class: C2 code & docs, no demo or download

Stars: 2
Last commit: 2020-04-27
Language: Python

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

Observed: Code and documentation observed; no download method or demo found.
Checked: 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: A Tanzmaus SysEx bank dump; the documented capture command uses amidi.
Limits: The parser is under development, and several bytes and the possible checksum remain unidentified.
License: No licence file in the repository.

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BibTeX

@misc{tanzmaus-sysex-parser-case,
  title = {{Tanzmaus Sysex Parser: decoding MFB Tanzmaus bank dumps}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/Windfisch/tanzmaus-reversing}},
  url = {https://github.com/Windfisch/tanzmaus-reversing},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/tanzmaus-sysex-parser-case/}}
}

Plain text

Tanzmaus Sysex Parser: decoding MFB Tanzmaus bank dumps. https://github.com/Windfisch/tanzmaus-reversing (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/tanzmaus-sysex-parser-case/

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README.md GitHub · Windfisch/tanzmaus-reversing · Revision 7928424