Re: MIDI Recording with SD35
By Bill Budenholzer
From a message by Andy LaTorre --
> there is always a song or two which
> do not replay sounding the same way it was recorded.
I may be missing something here but it sounds like you are getting patch settings from the previous MIDI file. You need to initialize all patch parameters at the beginning of each file. If you are using a true General MIDI or Roland General Sound synth., you can send a GM_Reset or GS_Reset sysex message. (I can send you the sysex messages for each if you need them) Each of these messages set the synth. to a known state (piano for each channel and null on all controllers). If your synth doesn't accept either of these messages, you will need to explicitly set each channel to the patch you want. This is a common problem with MIDI files in general. Many sequencers or musicians assume that the synth will be set to piano (or something else) at the time the MIDI file is loaded (sorry, but that just is not true).
You said you were using a Mac but didn't say whether you were using a Super Drive or not. The Mac's floppy is not compatible with a PC drive. MIDI files are in PC format. The Mac Super Drive does a better job of formatting a compatible PC disk than older Mac drives.
Bill Budenholzer
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