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General MIDI logo from the MIDI Manufacturers Association. General MIDI (also known as GM or GM 1) is a standardized specification for electronic musical instruments that respond to MIDI messages. GM was developed by the American MIDI Manufacturers Association (MMA) and the Japan MIDI Standards Committee (JMSC) and first published in 1991. The ...
MIDI melodic channels 8 15 15 [a] 16 combined ... Melodic instruments 128 128 226 480 1074 1149 256 360 Drum kits 1 1 8 + 1 SFX kit 9 + 2 SFX kits 34 + 2 SFX kits
Pages in category "MIDI instruments" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. D. Doepfer A-100;
The computer industry moved in the mid-1990s toward wavetable-based soundcards with 16-bit playback but standardized on a 2 MB of wavetable storage, a space too small in which to fit good-quality samples of 128 General MIDI instruments plus drum kits.
MIDI instruments (1 C, 18 P) Pages in category "MIDI" The following 54 pages are in this category, out of 54 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Roland GS, or just GS, sometimes expanded as General Standard [1] [2] or General Sound, [1] is a MIDI specification. It requires that all GS-compatible equipment must meet a certain set of features and it documents interpretations of some MIDI commands and bytes sequences, thus defining instrument tones, controllers for sound effects, etc.
General MIDI 2 compatible synthesizers access all of the 256 instruments by setting cc#0 (Bank Select MSB) to 121 and using cc#32 (Bank Select LSB) to select the variation bank before a Program Change. Variation bank 0 contains the full GM — that is, General MIDI 1 — sound set.
This is a list of musical instruments, including percussion, wind, stringed, and electronic instruments. Percussion instruments (idiophones, membranophones, struck chordophones, blown percussion instruments)