MIDI Forum

So it's not an official MIDI thing, I have the midi files you mention, I think I got them from a windows 95 when I was using it, mine don't have any c...

Does channel 16 have something to do with percussion? I've only seen it on linthesia

Yes, but I'm asking to see if I have to check all the tracks to know what the current program is or can I just trust what the current track says.

It happens to me that if I send two notes in a row without a sustain being activated only for that note.

Thanks, in my code I read always assuming that the variable length byte exists, I save it and use it to read the rest of the message so it always look...

[quotePost id=14610] GM percussion is always on Channel 10. GM2 percussion can be on 10 and/or 11, set with MSB = 120 (instrument channels have MSB ...

[quotePost id=14599]Just found out... Windows Media Player does not care about type 2 MIDI files, it plays both tracks simultaneously. It also does ...

[quotePost id=14598]For LARGE MIDI files, you can have a look here: [/quotePost] Thanks, it has really big midi files 1.4 mb The midi file indi...

[quotePost id=14590]I like to imagine a Type 2 MIDI file is sort of like a zip file that contains several Type 0 MIDI files. You would have to let the...

[quotePost id=14586]In a Type 2 MIDI file, the tracks are not intended to be played at the same time -- each track is a separate piece of music.[/quot...

[quotePost id=14581] I've interpreted Type 2 MIDI files as being a way to store a collection of Type 0 MIDI files in a single file. I also imagined t...

[quotePost id=14582] I used the DECODE program on the file, which displays the contents as plain text. The vast bulk of the file is a normal music ...

[quotePost id=14577]Oh, you needed a MIDI file of type 2, not a MIDI 2.0 file... Attaching one made with the tool mentioned above...[/quotePost] Yes...

[quotePost id=14575]We had a discussion a few months back about Type 2 files, with some files I have marked as Type 2 in the header, but we had diffic...