MIDI Forum

The Continue command is described in the Complete MIDI 1.0 Detailed Specification Document (1996) starting on PDF page 62.

It's unclear exactly how the "notated 32nd notes per MIDI quarter note" value was intended to behave. I haven't yet found any software that uses it fo...

I understand the problem is resolved, but in case Geoff or anyone else is curious about Sequencer Specific meta events... A Sequencer Specific meta...

As Eddie Lotter said, many MIDI files often put the end of a note and the beginning of the next note at exactly the same time. If you send notes of th...

WHAT IS MIDI CLOCK? Imagine you have two MIDI devices, one that you want to play prerecorded melody notes and another that can play an internal dr...

On this website, go to Specs -> The MIDI 1.0 Specification -> The Complete MIDI 1.0 Detailed Specification, then download the following documents and ...

Pitch Bend Sensitivity is a "Registered Parameter" -- it is Registered Parameter Number (RPN) zero. To change a Registered Parameter, you send four...

Maybe you can try to record a system exclusive message from the organ into Sibelius. (Connect the organ's MIDI OUT port to your computer's MIDI IN por...

You need: * A MIDI sequencer that can send MIDI messages to more than one MIDI output device, and * A software MIDI synthesizer that can play with n...

I've tried the ex1.mid file in a couple of midi players, and they play the file fine, and seem to take no notice at all of [...] the spurious EoT time...

I've never seen a midi file that uses looping. Be aware that there's not a standard way to indicate that a MIDI file "uses looping" within the file i...

My understanding is the method you described is the correct method to determine the length of the music in the MIDI file: Calculate the time positions...

It sounds like the "Set Measure/Beat at Now" command might be the kind of thing you are looking for, but I can't tell if that is available in your par...

Geoff is correct, and I apologize for any confusion: Roland GS Standard is different from General MIDI Level 2. In my original reply, I just wanted...

Note: Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth (or at least the one I have on my Windows 8.1 computer) does respond to a GS Reset (F0 41 10 42 12 40 00 7F 00 41 F...