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Short answer, "Yes." It's standard procedure to follow a Note On with a Note Off after the appropriate duration, i.e. quarter note, half note, etc. ...

Only the GM reset sets everything back to the MIDI default settings. It is advisable that every file should have one and it should be set at 01:1:00...

Hi Joe, In my experience it's not possible to add an effect to just one or two notes, the effect would have to be added to a channel. Probably assig...

The last time I replied to this thread, a year or more ago, I wrote "I strongly suspect we'll see something before the end of 2021." Here we are tw...

Not only is there no "MThd" to start the file, there are no "MTrk" track markers in the file. JohnG.

As Geoff and Clemens have already stated, the RAR file when uncompressed resulting in MARIE.MID is not in any way recognisable as a MIDI file. Neithe...

Er! A bit slow off the mark aren't you? Those have been available since at least April 2021, some from February 2020. Nothing new, that I can see, s...

It's very strange, I've just noticed that Craig Anderton is no longer listed as the MMA President. Athan Billias of Yamaha is now listed with that ti...

One program use, an old one by Yamaha, has the following dynamics embedded within it: 1-15 ppp N.B. not zero, a value of zero is a note off in MIDI...

Bach used it with his name ... seems strange doesn't it because there's no H in music notation? Well, not in English anyway, but there is an H in Ger...

CC7 and 11 will (should) give the same resultant volume, but an expression pedal is something that the player uses, the channel volume can be thought ...

The "normal" way of providing fade-outs in most SMF's I've seen is by graducally lowering the value of CC#7, channel volume. Actually it makes more s...

No, you can have all the key signatures available, both Major and minor. There follows an example from XGworks. So the first field goes from...

Trouble with the SoS article you refer to Geoff, is that it tells one almost nothing about the group of synth sounds Marie is asking about, much like ...

An interesting question. The GM standards document has this to say: GM Sound Definitions General MIDI does not recommend any particular method ...