A friend and I spent a year building a hardware MIDI message byte calculator and

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It's here. It works. If you use MDIPipe or similar program and you’re tired of translating MIDI channels, controller values, bank selects, and program changes into decimal and hexadecimal bytes by hand, check THIS out. I have 17 pieces of hardware midi-controlled gear and was tired of it all. Now this does it automatically. Enjoy.

MIDI Message Bench