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Code like this in the beginning of each track does not make much sense These events were probably merged or copy-pasted in some program that does not...

Delta times are just a mechanism to save space in the file; they are not necessary to understand how the timing works. Just use absolute tick numbers....

According to its manual, the MPK225 can do what you want, but you need a separate power supply. The same applies to the Novation Impulse 25, Alesis V...

That depends on circumstances. When you're playing live and a note-off message might get lost, it can make sense to have a big red button to turn off ...

The XG specification says:If the new Bank Select MSB is 00H (melody voice) but the tone generator does not support the melody voice corresponding to t...

Windows Media Player ist not a synthesizer; it merely sends MIDI messages to some port.

Roland and Yamaha made software implementations of GS and XG synthesizers (VSC-MP1, S-YXG50), but they are discontinued. Almost all synthesizers su...

GM2 uses both MSB and LSB bank selects. For the GM2 bank numbers, see appendix A of the GM2 specification. Also see sections 2.4, 2.6, 3.2, and 3.3.1....

What microcontroller are you using, or do you want to use? There are two microcontrollers that come with USB/MIDI libraries: Arduino UNO/Mega2560 w...

[quotePost id=12697]I figured with GM2 you could use both GM1 and GM2 bank selects, as GM2 was an extension to GM1.[/quotePost] GM1 does not define...

My SC-8820 receives this SysEx only with the correct device ID (10h); it does not work with 7Eh or 7Fh. (The manual says that 7Fh = broadcast works...

The _Battle version is not a valid GM2 file; it explicitly sets all banks to 0:0, while the only valid bank MSB values would be 120 or 121. But it ...

Just search for "SC-8850": A soundfont alone would not be able to recreate all the effects, and recording thousands of samples would be too much o...

That file explicitly selects the SC-88 map for most of its instruments. I've also changed it to use the newest sounds. For this file, this means SC-8...

To get a MIDI output that can properly provide power, get (or build) a MIDI Thru box with its own power supply (some want to be powered from their inp...