[LAD] Question re midi

[gene heskett]

On Tuesday, December 13, 2011 12:48:32 AM Tim E. Real did opine:

> On December 12, 2011 11:53:35 PM gene heskett wrote:
> > Does anyone have, in their old yellowed dead tree archives, a list of
> > instrument numbers vs instrument that would allow one to setup a
> > translation table to massage some very old midi files into General
> > Midi instrument numbers?  I need a list of number vs instrument for
> > the truly elderly Casio CZ-101 and for the Casio MT-240.
> > 
> > Google doesn't seem to be a lot of help and the original users manual
> > for the MT-240 very carefully skips that.
> > 
> > Some music I moused in 20 years ago sounds terrible when played
> > through a modern GM player.  Something has turned into a screaming
> > Picolo and is threatening to burn out my tweeters.
> > 
> > Any help will be very muchly appreciated.
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > Cheers, Gene
> 
> I downloaded the MT-240 manual.

I did that too before I posted. :)

> What about information on page 18 - any use?
> 
A little, but while it claims 210, the midi spec only allows 127.  What are 
0-19, ans 30-127?  Large mystery I guess short of rigging a loop to 
repeatedly send each number & see if I can figure out what instrument it is 
supposed to sound like.  Nothing I can get from its own front panel sounds 
remotely like the screaming Picolo I'm getting for the melody line.

The software I'm playing it with has several 'translation tables' available 
so as to do a best match between GM and say an old Yamaha PSS-480 or 3 or 5 
other older casio's & rolands plus straight GM but something is miss-
matched, badly.  I'll plug it (the MT-240) directly into the original midi 
out port tomorrow and see if its good, or if the scores are suffering from 
bit rot after 20 years.

Thanks for taking the time to look, I appreciate your efforts Tim.

> It says midi program 20 thru 29 produce the preset tones and lists them.
> The manual says it produces the 210 tone bank sounds by layering these
>  presets together.
> 
> Tim.

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