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Bear in mind that the text descriptions for the various Patch/Instrument settings will be dependant on the information available to the software, I a...

If you want to poke around in a few of these yourself, br /> The 3-percussion one is XGTECHNO under the XGSONG folder

The real question is "will the hardware or software that produces the sound be able to keep up?" After all, it's got to receive and interpret the two...

Just in general, because I have no MIDI hardware, easy to set up and configure audio inputs and outputs are a must. I use Windows 7 mainly. I have...

GS can use two drum maps on arbitrary channels. This is configured by setting the USE FOR RHYTHM PART parameter to 1 or 2 with a SysEx. Its address is...

Can I assume (since it's not easy to google "roland" and "part" and get good results 😛 ) that part numbers are 1-F, with 0=10? In the example, they ...

GS can use two drum maps on arbitrary channels. This is configured by setting the USE FOR RHYTHM PART parameter to 1 or 2 with a SysEx. Its address is...

This is from the General MIDI 2.0 specification: "Bank Select 78H/xxH followed by a Program Change will cause the Channel to become a Rhythm Channel,...

To clarify: Specifically midi files, made using one of the three main standards: GM (1/2), XG, and GS. I am not working with any hardware, so all of...

More info! br /> This is the manual for the Roland SC-8850, which has an even more complete list of SC programs/instruments than the list I was u...

I added an icon display for when a file contains sysex resets. As JohnG mentioned above, I am seeing that official XG files do have both a GM and XG ...

SYSEX STORAGE IN A MIDI FILE HAS A LENGTH [...] SYSEX MANUFACTURER ID [...] SYSEX DEVICE ID [...] SYSEX MODEL IDS [...] All very useful info. ...

The Wikipedia entry for GM2 has useful bank info for me. br /> General MIDI 2 compatible synthesizers access all of the 256 instruments by setting ...