MIDI Forum

John, Not sure what you mean by 'NRPN 9'. You need to use the TWO controllers for NRPN, and these are CC 98 and 99 (decimal). Controller 98 con...

I suppose that's so. Any software would normally initialise data to zero, In MIDI terms, for PC, then just happens to be Piano. I would not expec...

There is nothing in the midi specs, although note that: A: If the playback system has had nothing previously set, then the channels will be set to...

Jonas, You seem very fond of over-complicating things? Specifically, you keep trying to create software that hopes to treat all midi devices the...

Hello Joe and Zoe, There seems to be some confusion here. We deal here with midi files (among other related things) and a midi file (SMF or Stan...

Hello, The existing controller (Soft Pedel) makes an adjustment to the existing sound, but this may not be enough of a difference to fully recreate...

Aha... You're not doing anything wrong as such. You are operating in a sort of test mode, i.e. sending the notes in a raw form, and this may well...

Hello, Not quite sure what you mean here. Firstly, as this is (I assume) a percussion sound, then the note end will be built into the envelope (...

Hello, This is nothing to do with standard midi. You need to do a search for Yamaha XF Format, you will find a detailed spec that way. XF Form...

Hello, Things getting mixed re base 10 and base 16. You are sending data as hex, but the SC-7 is displaying the result as decimal. Numbers you ...

Hello Mark, To update the earlier comments, I've downloaded the Owner's Manual for this device which has substantial info about the Midi implementa...

Hello Mark, Should be possible. I note there is a special manual for this device regarding accessing the SVX (?) sound facilities via MIDI - whi...

Erik, Sema's reply misses the point - you CANNOT use Running Status in the circumstances you describe, except there the Status byte is exactly the ...

Paul, Some of your 'peeves' relate to Channels, and some relate to Tracks, but Tracks and Channels are quite different things, so some of your comp...

Lisa, It doesn't matter, now it's working, but to be fair all around, I don't think it's anything to do with Running Status. Running Status is t...