MIDI Forum

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.

Just to add a little here: Keyswitches are notes that are used to invoke different 'articulations' of an instrument, and are fairly common in orche...

The trouble is, Geir, that MIDI 1 messages are encapsulated within the MIDI 2 UMP. This would make them potentially unreadable to a MIDI 1 sequencer/...

It'll certainly be interesting to see whether a MIDI 2 SMF will be read within a MIDI 1 sequencer or DAW. Somehow "I hae me doots", but living in h...

I'm not directly involved, but I don't see how MIDI 2.0 can't affect the file specification fairly significantly. There was an early thread wher so...

P.S. If you decide to go with GPO5 it's well worth while downloading the pdf format manual for GPO4 from the lnk below. If you can, try printing out ...

To be honest, although I did buy the harps some time back, I've never had the need to use a harp as a solo instrument, so I tend to use, when needed w...

Glad you found it useful. I'm sort of surprised you don't find the quality of the Garritan harps to your liking. Gary Garritan is a harpist and a...