GM stands for General MIDI. It is a set of atandards intended to ensure that MIDI sequence data files are played back using appropriate sounds, although the type of sound generation, realism and exact sound used are not specified. If you have a MIDI file of, say a jazz trio of grand piano, upright bass and drums and you play it into a GM-compatible synth, you can be sure that the sounds used will at least vaguely resemble a piano, acoustic bass and drums, although the actual sounds may not be the same as those on a different GM-compatible unit. The original GM sound set comprised 128 sounds covering orchestral, electric and ethnic instruments, plus drums, synth pads, synth effects and a few seemingly random sound effects. There were many omissions - no Wurlitzer electric piano, combo organ, contra-bassoon, tabla, mandolin etc. Many of these have been provided by the revised GM2 spec. > before i google it is gm a set of patches or is gm general midi [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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Re: [CZsynth] Are the CZ-3000/5000 velocity sensitive?
2012-12-04 by Simon Beck