Casio CZ/ VZ/ FZ - Pro Series

Nibble is half of byte. When some manufacturers want to sent 8-bit  
data bytes in MIDI communication, they divide them to half and send  
them in two bytes, for example

abcdefgh

sent as:

0000abcd
0000efgh

The main reason for this is that data bytes in MIDI communication must  
start with 0.

Other manufacturers did differently, for example they sent it this way:

0abcdefg
000000h

Why do you ask, you are software programmer, I'd suppose you know such  
basic things... If not, Google is your friend:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibble

http://www.techterms.com/definition/nybble

Daniel Forro

On 31 Jan, 2014, at 5:43 AM, charlie midi gfa wrote:

> nybbles are bytes
> ?
>
> charlie
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lee Borrell" <templarser@...>
> To: <CZsynth@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2014 1:59 PM
> Subject: Re: [CZsynth] VZ SysEx Format
>
>
> That's interesting thanks - I have worked on Yamaha checksums which
> calculate on the nybbles - not the bytes - I will bear what you have  
> said in
> mind when I come to CZ.