On most decent instruments you can adjust things like bend range from the front panel.
I don't know, it just wouldn't listen to SysEx data being sent, it'd act like it was receiving it but nothing would change. I tried several tools and libraries, tried getting it to dump data back which partially worked but wasn't really useful outside of showing that it wasn't a fault in my setup. Storing SysEx isn't a problem, I have to do that all the time, some things still only exist as handwritten parameters in a table too, need to fix that though this is obviously for other gear. The MT-32 was very prone to crashing in the time I had it, you'd hear a kind of scratch, like a split second of white noise and it would freeze, often with the MIDI indicator on and the screen having gone blank, sometimes it would randomly 'shriek' without crashing too. Oddly I had the same results with a D-50 which died in my hands years before, minus the shrieking, so I just put it down to some design flaw somewhere, thinking it likely that cheap construction does not bode well for longevity, and moved on when it eventually didn't come back up. Strangely both of them also exhibited peculiar tuning issues towards the end, which is unusual for a digital synth - except the DX7 as that likes to corrupt its microtuning data, but at least in that there's a fairly clear reason as to what's wrong and ti can be put right so long as you took a dump of the factory sounds from it.
Agree to disagree all you want, yet you and everyone else have never gotten back to me on the gauntlet I lay down, it's funny how that works.
Until then, PD Synthesis is where it's at in my mind, maybe I'll think differently when someone gets this kind of sound out of an LA synth instead of off-key wheezes and farts.