MIDI Forum

Have you tried downloading the GM2 specification from the specs section? There's a lot of definitions of defaults contained within it.

Thank you, John! Is it just coincidence that the number's 128 -- an exponent of 2? You'll find I'm incurably curious -- but I try a question in google...

Hi Nelson, What we're talking about here is the difference between MIDI 1.0 spec. and General MIDI (GM) and GM2 specifications. As part of GM, a def...

Essentially, Sonar 7 and all other MIDI sequencing programs I've come across, record the MIDI notes of a live session according to the tempo and time ...

Well, a few things occur to me. 1. that you have quantising switched on in Anvil, which is by the way, a very capable little freee program. Quantisi...

Some very interesting contributions to this thread. It promises to be a very exciting couple of years in terms of new devices supporting MIDI 2.0 a...

Dmitry said, MMA exists to design and promote common standards for the manufacturers to implement. And without a commonly accepted high-speed link to...

CAN bus or ethernet is most suitable for a new midi standard. USB is not symmetrical so let hope that it is not part of 2.0. It isn't. That is down t...

My reading of what's there so far shows no change to the electronics driving the standard MIDI DIN, so I'd expect 32,150 bps. It's only USB and Ether...

MU90, eh! 😉 It may be, that this particular SysEx command wasn't added to the MIDI specification until the MU90 was designed and built. The last...

Geof, Within a SysEx message the manufacturer's number can only be 00 to 7Ch. So these are specific to a particular piece of equipment. 7Dh, 7...

No, I think that the MIDI spec deliberately allows manufacturers to "break the rules", but let me explain what I mean by that. To take conventional...

I'm not sure that they do follow "a standard" or is it a commonly agreed implementation that some don't adhere to? I've looked through the MIDI 1.0 s...

No, the pressure doesn't "reach zero" it starts at zero with no pressure applied. After the key "bottoms out" when you play it and then you start to ...

Enzo, I hope this does it for you. Here's a small part of the voice list from page 5 of the DGX-650 "data list" manual downloaded from Yamaha downlo...