MIDI Forum

You could use the Garritan Harps to (attempt) to realise the impromtu you posted. Nice and challenging! No, I haven't compared interfaces between S...

I use a Steinberg UR22 MkII USB interface. It comes with ASIO drivers that can be configured to give very low latency. A quality audio interface seem...

Sorry, all on one dual core I5 laptop from Lenovo.

For sequencing I still use a rather old, and now unavailable program called XGworks (marketed in the late 90's by Yamaha), mainly because I'm so famil...

Cakewalk (or Sonar) version 7 should be absolutely fine for sequencing the Vivaldi Gloria. I did this track back in 2018 for a small local choir th...

CbB stands for Cakewalk by Bandlab, the latest name for Sonar. Free to downlaod from Bandlab once you've established an account. I should have said...

The file you output with the suffix ".cwp" is a Cakewalk project file and can only be read by someone with Sonar or CbB, if you can export it as a typ...

Anvil Studio seems to work okay for many people. True, you can pay for various upgrades, but the basic program seems to be enough for many. Seka...

Isn't the time honoured and only way of resetting all controllers by issuing the GM System On SysEx message? It's always worked satisfactorily on a...

MIDI doesn't have quality variations, it's a protocol that defines how data is transmitted. But MIDI files vary enormously in quality from the MIDI...

Sadly, the very inexpensive MIDI/USB adaptors often have problems. There are many reports here and elesewhere of such problems. The thing to do is t...

As yet MIDI 2 is just at the protocol specification stage and the USB mechanism is the first of the the hopefully many ways of connecting devices. ...

Yes, GM2 extends the range downward slightly and up to note 88, I believe, Other manufacturers I know of extend down to note 13 and up to 91. I thin...

A bit late to the party, but here goes. Previous posts have outlined exactly what the problem is. The two sysex resets nullify the commands that co...

Thus potentially massively increasing the size of a MIDI file? I thought the whole idea behind MIDI was that it was as lean as possible? Why not...