General MIDI or GM is a compliant standard set of sounds and controls which are used in music equipment or software applications. Those products usually have the branding of the image to the right.
The GM sounds are allocated a unique program number between 0-127, 128 sounds in total. Below is a chart [...]
Setting Up your MIDI System Controls
Each controller number below can be used to control MIDI controls within your computer MIDI system or MIDI Keyboard.
Here are some uses for controlling those numbers:
Initialise a General MIDI (GM) Keyboard or Sound Module so that it returns the controllers to the factory (flat) setting. For example, [...]
A MIDI setup with a laptop is great because it’s compact, portable and easily connected up. With loads of gear being designed with portability in mind, it’s now much easier for musicians to take their setup on the road for live gigs, rehearsing or recording.
The Simplest MIDI Setup
Firstly, while I refer to MIDI [...]
MIDI is short for Musical Instrument Digital Interface and is another method of connecting your music equipment together or connecting up to a computer. MIDI transfers information and does NOT transfer audio. Connecting MIDI involves using 1 or 2 MIDI cables to the MIDI ports of the devices being used.
What kind of information is [...]
Take a look at the diagram below: Keyboard A and Keyboard B. Let’s assume they both have sounds of their own but we want to play the sounds of Keyboard B from Keyboard A from playing the keys on Keyboard A. To achieve this we use the following steps:
Switch both keyboards off (just in [...]
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