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since LSDj version 7.2.7 the max tempo has been 295 BPM

i mod all my gameboys this way to keep the headphone amp intact, and then just drill a hole in the case and use a separate 1/8" stereo jack for pre-pot line-out. i don't want the (usually dirty) volume pot in my line-out signal, and i like using the headphone output while i'm writing on headphones. but if i plug the gameboy into a mixer or something other than headphones, i use the line-out jack.

that being said let me list some features that will help you kind of get started right away:

all the L commands are now different, so that L01 is the fastest and LFF is the slowest (inverted from how v4 worked)

the next most immediate change is the "PITCH" feature in pulse and wave - if you press A+Up, you can choose "drum" and this emulates the pitch slides for kicks. i don't recommend making a kick with "FAST" pitch although you definitely can if you want to. the transpose feature is also useful for kicks since if you turn it off, you can use the chain transpose column on phrases with kicks and bass and the kicks won't change pitch! i made a kick drum tutorial video here (in v6 it was called P/L/V but in v7+ it's just called PITCH) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ihMjHn90zY

in v7/8, table AUTOMATE is now called STEP and is selected by pressing A+Left/Right where it says PLAY next to TABLE

there's a new feature called CMD/RATE (it was called FX/SPEED at the time i wrote the blog) that controls the rate of C commands (and P commands which also work in the noise channel along with C)

the screen navigation has changed - there are only 2 rows, and each row remembers where you left off when you switch between them. the exceptions for this are that going upwards from a wave instrument still takes you to the synth screen, and going upwards from a G command still take you to the groove screen.

i also wrote a tech blog covering some more of the changes in v7: https://chiptuneswin.com/blog/intense-t … -features/

i'm trying to think of the major ones but it's kind of hard to remember since there are so many. feel free to message me on any platform including here if you want to have a chat, i'm happy to help!

feel free to PM me with the rom and the sav you're using and i'll see if i can help!

sadly the word is that they've been discontinued, and whatever is left in stock is what will be left (until ...... ????)

that being said i highly recommend carts from insidegadgets.com - the low-power carts are rock solid and the dev will flash LSDJ for you if you attach a copy of the ROM to your order (they also make 4mb 128kb FRAM carts when the chips are available). however, for an extra ~$20 you can just get the gbxcart-mini flasher and do it yourself, for about the same price as an EMS cart. additionally the new krikzz Everdrive carts support LSDJ now (i would recommend the X5 or X7 if you go that route, but they are pricey).

If you mean you want to use MIDI to actually record the note data into a phrase in LSDJ, that isn't possible. If you want to use MIDI to play each channel like you would a normal VSTi, that is possible using the Keyboard mode but as far as I know you can only play 1 channel at a time and there are other restrictions (you can only play at the current groove in the currently playing phrase). So to answer your question, it's mostly the latter, to play back what you've programmed in LSDJ. Otherwise what you probably want instead is mGB, which treats the Gameboy more like a typical VSTi synth. It only takes MIDI input and there is no real sequencing possible in the rom, you do all the sequencing via MIDI in the DAW. https://github.com/trash80/mGB