instrument patches

2002-06-22 03:07 am

under "staff properties" of a staff I found you can change the instrument patch. I opened one of them and found a lot of instruments you can't find in the "General MIDI" patch. anyone know where I can find those patches, or anyway I can just find those "hidden" instruments in the other patches?

Re: instrument patches

Reply #1 – 2002-06-22 04:38 am

It's not a question of those sounds being "hidden," it's more like "not there." For example, on a General Midi system, patch number 126 gives a "helicopter" sound. However, if you happen to have an (older) MT-32 midi system, you'll get "One Note Jam" instead.

The various "Patch List Types" are simply provided as a convenience. If you're using a soundfont-based midi system, some of the specialised fonts may not relate at all to any of the supplied lists; for instance, if you have an organ font, most if not all of the patches will be different organ sounds. In this case, you can edit your ntwpatch.ini file to match your soundfonts (or other midi system) as a convenience to yourself when inserting instrument patches.

You'll also notice that the Roland GS patches are essentially the same as GM, the main difference being in the nomenclature (e.g. Piano3 instead of Electric Piano, etc.)