General Midi device synth!

musurgio · Post by **musurgio** » Tue May 02, 2006 6:10 am

I would like to see a general midi synth that would have all the essential General midi instruments ready to be palyed on midi channels.
Regards,
Dimitrios

djmicron · Post by **djmicron** » Tue May 02, 2006 6:59 am

it could be done with sts samplers.

musurgio · Post by **musurgio** » Tue May 02, 2006 7:15 am

Thanks,
I have thought about that.
How can you laod 128 instruments on a sds sampler ?
Regards,
Dimitrios

djmicron · Post by **djmicron** » Tue May 02, 2006 7:46 am

general midi should use 16 instruments at the same time.

ChrisWerner · Post by **ChrisWerner** » Tue May 02, 2006 8:21 am

I haven´t use the sts for a long time now.
But I remember that there are some sf2 or other gm sets in the internet. Try to find one and load it into the sample pool of the sts.
That should to the job.

arela · Post by **arela** » Tue May 02, 2006 10:58 am

This is something added to Band in a Box,
i see they charge a few $
http://www.pgmusic.com/mpu401.htm

dawman · Post by **dawman** » Tue May 02, 2006 11:12 am

Convert the one that came with Gigasampler to STS. It is rather good IMHO for it has more memory attached to the samples, and then compressed for low memory usage.

musurgio · Post by **musurgio** » Wed May 03, 2006 12:07 am

Thanks,
But sds loads only 16 instruments right ?
So you have to manually always unload reload new instruments ?
Also which Gigasampler files are you reffering to ?
Thanks again,
Regards,
Dimitrios

astroman · Post by **astroman** » Wed May 03, 2006 2:38 am

it's probably the Connexant Lib - mine came bundled with GS96, Gigapiano and a soundcard for 60 Euro or something like that

the single instruments are a boring sh*t (and you'll probably tell yourself '...what a waste of memory...'), but they seem to back arrangements really(!) good and sit nicely in the mix.

cheers, Tom

astroman · Post by **astroman** » Wed May 03, 2006 2:41 am

On 2006-05-03 01:07, musurgio wrote:
Thanks,
But sds loads only 16 instruments right ?
So you have to manually always unload reload new instruments ?...

1 instrument per midi channel, but they can be activated by program changes from one of the 127 entries preloaded in the 'sample pool'

cheers, Tom