NoteWorthy Composer Forum

(I assume you mean the computer's Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth?)

Whether a particular bank select works or not depends entirely on the synth or soundcard or softsynth playing it back, not on the GM or GM2 standard.

Synths simply ignore commands they cannot execute and make the most acceptable substitution within their limitations.

You might have to save as 2 NWC files, one as yourmasterpieceXG.nwc with all the XG tricks and one as yourmasterpieceGM with all percussion tracks on MIDI CH 10 and no nice pans.

If only all were so enlightened as to use Yamaha!

Roland GS Drum kits

The drum kits were assigned their own bank, cc#0 (Bank Select MSB) 127, cc#32 (Bank Select LSB) 0, and were accessible on any channel (but could not span more than two channels), with 9 different kits in total

GM2's introduction of Key-Based Instrument Controllers is a major step forward in drum programming. Key-based refers to how percussion is mapped, with each MIDI note number triggering a different timbre, such as kick drum on C2 and snare on E2. GM2 lets you map certain controllers to correspond to individual
keys and therefore individual drum sounds. That enables composers to do things such as override the default pan positions of drum kit elements. The hi-hat, for example, can be panned all the way to the right instead of centered. Other controllers that can be adjusted per note number include Volume, Reverb Send Level, and Chorus Send Level.

Having two channels for drums means you can change different channel-specific parameters, such as Volume and Pan, on different instruments. By moving a shaker or tambourine to channel 11 while keeping the rest of the drums on channel 10, you can create some movement by sweeping the shaker around the stereo field using good old controller 10 (Pan).

I am not sure about North America.  Can anyone enlighten me?