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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 ...

Hi Geoff, I don't think this site's software has much in the way of the sophistication(?) of a PhBB forum, mostly because it's primarily a web site...

Hi Jason, From my perspective I'd say that the level of spam is about the same as it's been for many months. I log on every morning and usually de...

I don't know if this article might answer some of your questions? microtuning and alternative intonation systems. Certainly, some of the VSTi's ...

[quotePost id=10581] Question for native English speaker: is there a better word to use instead of "Obsolete"?[/quotePost] Unnecessary or redundan...

An interesting question. The answer to the first question, AFAIK, is no. Certainly I've never seen in any of the specs anything that addresses th...

Hi Jason, Yes, it's also not uncommon in many professionally authored files to see the GM reset at the very start of measure one, and the XG reset ...

No, recommended practice is not a full measure "empty", it's a measure empty of music notes so that all the necessary setup messages, such as these Sy...

First of all, it doesn't really matter where you place your SysEx commands as they aren't channel messages, but the convention is to put them in the f...

The idea behind the GM specification is compatibility. If you author a GM SMF it should sound broadly the same no matter whose hardware/software yo...