Re: Playing back MIDI files on a Rodgers i557 organ
Reply #9 –
Kinda... See below
This is a common misconception. The sounds you hear are not supplied by NWC. NWC outputs via MIDI, it is your MIDI synthesizer that produces the actual sounds.
If you have a Creative sound card that supports sound fonts then there is a sound font bank just for Organs called "Jeux" (actually there are several, but this is the most common one I've seen).
To obtain the organ sounds, you send the appropriate patch information, INCLUDING the MSB/LSB data to select the banks the JEUX sounds are in. Not as hard as it sounds. Of course this is all academic if you dont have sound font support.
You could also consider a VST setup but I have no practical knowledge in this area and can't help.
I think you mean stop, not pipe, but this is essentially correct. However, as you say, you could handle that.