# 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.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Protocol
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/Windfisch/tanzmaus-reversing>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/Windfisch/tanzmaus-reversing/blob/7928424607d4c691b70fcc9dfd0fdec9a9b145fb/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/tanzmaus-sysex-parser-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/tanzmaus-sysex-parser-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/tanzmaus-sysex-parser-case/index.md)

## 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.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/Windfisch/tanzmaus-reversing/blob/7928424607d4c691b70fcc9dfd0fdec9a9b145fb/README.md>

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