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My previous post explained how to fix the issue, but didn't really explain how to investigate these kinds of problems. When you have a MIDI file th...

One problem I can see: The channel 3 sustain pedal is left on at measure 82, and the channel 2 sustain pedal is left on at measure 103. Note: I sus...

In the first MIDI file you posted (PMTTYD-XNaut_Base.mid), the track named "PERCUSSION" contains messages for channel 10 and has a Program Change mess...

Are you using the app called "Set List Maker"? The website section "To control Set List Maker with a MIDI device" explains how you can associate an...

Hey Geoff, in the Yamaha PSR-E213/YPT-210 MIDI Implementation Chart, the "Note Off X" is in the "Velocity" section. This just means it doesn't make us...

I agree that running status, by itself, isn't causing the problem. But if the MIDI interface is poor quality, maybe it is getting confused by the runn...

In the MIDI-OX port activity window, the rows represent ports and the columns 1 to 16 represent MIDI channels. In the monitor output window, the CHAN ...

Where are you seeing the status byte? Did you write your own program? Maybe you are using a signed byte data type. In this case, values between 0 and ...

Do you know about "running status"? For Channel messages, the status byte is allowed to be skipped if it's the same as the previous status byte. Maybe...

Hey! When Geoff mentioned QWERTY, that reminded me of a Windows tool called qwertymidi that I played around with once. It's in the zip file package of...

I also found a thread on a German message board asking about the SEQD001.TD9 file format. It includes the following information from Roland Customer S...

> I have some .TD9 files which are recordings from the Roland TD-9 Drum Computer. (...) Are they anything like MIDI ? They likely use similar conce...

With MIDI, the sustain pedal is sent via control change number 64. If you set your Krome to not send control change messages, that will prevent it fro...

Most keyboards have a "transpose" setting that lets you shift all the keys like this. You may have accidentally set your keyboard's transpose setting ...

It is normal to send program change and control change messages to the same channel. For example, if your MIDI device uses General MIDI sounds, the fo...