Casio CZ/ VZ/ FZ - Pro Series

Correct term for what?

Almost all MIDI instruments have velocity, aftertouch, program change,  
pitch bend, modulation, sustain... It's a basic MIDI function set. Of  
course such instrument can control any other MIDI instrument, also GM  
instruments.

GM is General MIDI standard. Part of it are all those mentioned  
features. But the main reason for inventing GM was deeper  
standardization of patch set, controller set, drum sounds assigning to  
keys, velocity and controllers curves and some other features. Before  
GM there were some other standards, like Roland C/M (MT32), Yamaha PK,  
DOC, RX...

GM was introduced in 1991, Casio CZ was produced few years before, so  
it's not GM compatible.

And later better standards came - 1991 Roland GS, 1993 Yamaha TG300B,  
since 1994 few generations of Yamaha XG, since 1999 GM2, Yamaha XF...

Daniel Forro


On 4 Dec, 2012, at 12:01 PM, charlie midi gfa wrote:

> daniel whats the correct term i should use?
>
> it has velocity
> it has after touch
> probally program change too....
>
> its a step closer to the actual GM standard,
> at least if  used as a controller  for some gm devices
>
> its got pitch bend . modulation .....too
>
> before i google it
> is gm a set of patches
> or
> is gm general midi
>
>
> i think i answered the original post quite well except had a few day  
> delay
>
> charlie