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Re: [Ensoniq-VFX-SD] Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth, General Midi Settings?

2008-12-25 by Gordon JC Pearce MM3YEQ

markrubin53 wrote:
> Has anyone developed a .syx file for either a "General Midi Settings"
> or the "Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth?"
> When I go into a music program and try to use my Ensoniq VFX sd as the
> midi instrument, it can't see it. Only in Cakewalk do they recognize
> Ensoniq. If someone has made a .syx for the General Midi settings
> either 0-127 or 1-128 it would make our lives much easier.
> What do you think?
> Thanks;
>  Mark

Most music software won't really "see" the Ensoniq as anything.  It will 
see a MIDI port, and will cheerfully stuff MIDI commands down it, but it 
won't actually know (or care) what's on the other end of the MIDI cable.

Gordon

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