MIDI Forum

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...

Just to add to the conversation so far, if you look at page 10 of the owners' manual (TD-1_eng02_W.pdf) you will see in the second (right hand) column...

Max, The last I heard was that there was a committee still setting the standards for MIDI 2 SMFs. Mike, the forum administrator, works on this c...

Max, I don't recall it being a specific requirement until the GM2 spec. came out, which dates it to about 1999. In that spec, (now at version 1.2 ...

According to the MIDI specification, if no Program Change (preceded by Bank Select messages if necessary) is issued to change the 'instrument' used, t...

Quite right, Bank Selects and Program changes are per channnel. So, if a bank select is issued, whatever track it is issued on (it doesn't matter),...

As Geoff has said, the XF specification is a Yamaha extension to General MIDI. The SysEx messages are used to create styles for modern Yamaha keyboar...