MIDI Forum

[quotePost id=17877]how is the checksum calculated?[/quotePost] Calculating the Roland checksum is covered in my SysEx Tutorial.

[quotePost id=17522]B) Where to find a beginners guide to using Cakewalk.[/quotePost] You can watch many video tutorials and you can read the introdu...

For me, one of the biggest improvements in MIDI 2.0 is the standardized, built-in, two-way communication that allows a DAW/sequencer to query a MIDI d...

Yes, this is the correct place to ask. I hope someone knowledgeable about hardware will respond.

[quotePost id=16455]This would make it impossible to send an ordinary System Exclusive 8 End UMP message containing no data with stream id 0x0. Such a...

WMA is usually Windows Media Audio, as opposed to WMV for Windows Media Video.

[quotePost id=16285]where "x" is the "part number".[/quotePost] Careful, this is not accurate for the Sound Canvas. "x" represents a "block" where b...

[quotePost id=16020]I see that many games that used it would load custom sounds over the default ones.[/quotePost] The MT-32 settings are highly cust...

You can ignore the leading zeroes here. I'm guessing they are a vestige of changing from the coding notation (0xB0) to the documentation notation (B0h...

[quotePost id=16015]The Roland MT-32 could do this, if I am not mistaken.[/quotePost] No. Unfortunately the MT-32 predated DLS.

Yes, it is called Downloadable Sounds.

Starting on page 26 is a list of all MIDI messages recognised and what their function is.

[quotePost id=15707]I'd like to add some echo to my drum note 38 or 40 only by using Sysex. Can this be done?[/quotePost] Yes, you can change the amo...

My RPN and NRPN tutorial uses Pitch Bend Sensitivity as an example of how to use RPN.

[quotePost id=15042]Eddie Lotter: Remember that Meta Events -- FF -- do not get sent out on the MIDI port, they only exist inside the MIDI file for...