MIDI Forum

If you download the GM2 specification and look at Appendix B "Percussion Sound Set", on page 32, you can see which Note Number is used for each percus...

The standard version (free) of Anvil Studio, I'm pretty sure, will let you do Bank Select MSB, Bank Select LSB, Program Changes and add them to a MIDI...

Try Anvil Studio or Sekaiju as examples, they will let you do what you require.

Why not just do a search for the MIDI file using vanBasco. I found one there without any effort at all. Modify that to your heart's content.

The version of Finale you use must be really ancient! 😮 I've been using the product for some considerable time and I've always been able to use ...

As Clemens has said, the MMA is about setting the standards for manufacturers to follow. It's not a producer and marketer of software. If you do a...

[quotePost id=9137]Oooooh, I just thought of something... On instrument channels it will be easier because a program change always happens for a ne...

If you want to analyse a MIDI file in some detail, one of the best programs available today to do this is one called Sekaiju from the OpenMIDIproject....

After many years of creating and analysing MIDI files, I've never come across this practice, i.e. switching kits just to implement a single hit or two...

Also, be prepared to find notes having values greater than their notated length, e.g. 481 or 961, etc. When using various synths or VST sample play...

Jonas is quite right. Most/many sequencing programs do not enter a fuil note but usually about 95% of the full value. You'll find that a quarter not...

Because the standards, as yet, are incomplete. So far just the protocol and the USB implementation are there. There is, for instance, no MIDI 2 fil...

There is no "standard" indicator that I'm aware of but, just as you have noticed, a reset may be included to switch the file player/sound module to th...

Hmm! Interesting question. I can't give a definitive answer, but ... If we're just talking about a MIDI file player without a track/channel mute...

No, no channel mute as such but just turn CC#7 down to zero.