MIDI Forum

Jason, If you take a look at the complete MIDI 1.0 specification, Table III, you will see that controllers 70 to 74 (decimal) are defined as "Sound C...

One reason there's little to nothing is that the standards are not yet complete. For one, the MIDI file standard hasn't yet been published. How can ...

[quotePost id=13786] Hmmmmm, does it work on percussion channels as well? In my post about playing a partial sound, that would actually be the exact ...

[quotePost id=13678] All SNES music makes extensive use of pitch bend, so your playback will need to support pitch bend (portamento) or it will sou...

Why do you need to wait for MIDI 2 for more channels? With MIDI 1.0, if I'm midifying a full orchestral score, I sometimes use up to 96 channels vi...

Totally agreed Gunnar! But then, when the specifications were published with only USB connection, and no MIDI 2 SMF defined, I decided to ignore th...

Bavi, Thanks for your direct response. [quotePost id=12355]JohnG: You are correct that the beginning of the messages all use a Manufacturer ID of ...

Gunnar, The MIDI CI uses Universal System Exclusive commands as I explained in my post above Bavi's. JohnG.

Looking at the PDF of the "M2-101-UM MIDI Capabilities Inquiry (MIDI-CI)" manual, I can't find a place where it says that a manufacturer's SysEx ID is...

There's nothing wromg with the download area. I've just downloaded RP26. Browser problem?

With SysEX mesages for GS devices the penultimate byte is a checksum as detailed in several of the GS device specifications. (See the manual for the ...

Clemens is quite right. If you watch as closely as I do you'll see that the vast majority of the spam occurs Monday to Friday. Just where it's dir...

In the many, many years that I've been a moderator or administrator of several fora, I've never managed to discourage spammers. You see you're trying...

Yes, agreed, use of the sustain pedal could be considered cheating, but for most non hammer action keyboards (much easier to achieve the desired resul...

If you want to achieve a slur between two notes, i.e. to cut off the attack portion of the second (and any subsequent) notes under the slur, then the ...