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* Not only would I need to change the bank for each occurrence of the percussion instrument, but I would then need to change the bank back to the orig...

I think I'm going to have to ponder this for a while and see if I should actually do it. Witness this screenshot of the byte locations of all the p...

[quotePost id=9138]MU, but it may well need to do anything with ONLY the note numbers that need a change, and may not have to do anything with the oth...

Oooooh, I just thought of something... On instrument channels it will be easier because a program change always happens for a new instrument, so I ...

Once I add in the functionality (on a trial basis), I'll try messing with a file, and if one of you fine folks could test it out on hardware with its ...

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...