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[quotePost id=14624]Are the instruments different for GM GM2 GS XG?[/quotePost] GM is a common subset of GM2, GS and XG. Other instruments differ. H...

[quotePost id=14614] The bank selector allows many different instruments, is there a list with the names? [/quotePost] There is:br /> You can have...

Just found out... Windows Media Player does not care about type 2 MIDI files, it plays both tracks simultaneously. It also does not mind if a type 0...

Oh, you needed a MIDI file of type 2, not a MIDI 2.0 file... Attaching one made with the tool mentioned above...

I don't think anybody have MIDI-2 files. The one with SMPTE you can find atbr /> and that will also allow you create your own test files with any co...

Welcome to the forum, Daniel! You should better post all related stuff in one thread. All ._ and .DS_Store files are not needed and you can safely d...

If you disable links on the "About me" pages, the resource will become less attractive for the spammers. None of the legitimate forum regulars use th...

I've tested GS with 7F with Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth and with the Roland keyboard I have and it works. XG is still a mystery to me because 10 m...

> F0 0A 41 (10) 42 12 40 00 7F 00 41 F7 GS reset in your message is incorrect, it should be f0 41 7f 42 12 40 00 7f 00 41 f7 It looks like the se...

> Is it 7E? no, it's 7F. (7F) instead of (10) should work.

Welcome to the club! 🙂

Not sure if you really need the SysEx ID, but you can always use 0x7d for the development purpose.

I believe UTF8 is the most common encoding in MIDI files regardless of what the specs say.

I was not able to find anything better...

I had the same question a while ago...