Thank you, John! Is it just coincidence that the number's 128 - an exponent of 2? You'll find I'm incurably curious - but I try a question in google first whenever feasible I know nothing about Sonar, or the organ you refer to (is this a midi controlled device)? I don't understand what you're describing as 'wrong', if a midi device is sent the correct data it whould play what it's supposed to, does it NOT do that? What are you referring to regarding 'recording'? Are you trying to get Sonar to Record (sample) the real organ and then add these sounds to your soundbank, or what? Maybe you're just using the wrong words relative to my experience of such things? Anyway, the GM sounds are merely an option, useful for midi files that need to play on a wide range of different devices and sound reasonably correct (even if not totally identical). The GM list of 128 instrument/sound names is literally no more than that, and the actual sounds could be quite different between different devices, while a 'soundbank' would normally be a very specific set of real (captured, sampled, sounds). Yes, referring to a 'standard soundbank' might be helpful, but this implies a LOT more than what midi actually implies.
I don't think anyone who understands midi will have any problem. Midi is all about the mechanics of the data storage and transmission, not about the actual sounds.
I don't think there's any 'misnomer' as you say, that's unfair. Reaper looks it? I don't have $500 to spend, either - got Sonar used via Ebay. Apparently Cakewalk 7 Studio dates from 2007 - am open to later things if better, but only if they're as simple for laying and editing tracks. I've been changing them manually as tracks play all these years, but if there's a better solution let's have it. Ditto when it's time to use them during a church service. It may recall them fine right after setting them, or not. Suggestions as to what General MIDI should have been called - Standard Soundbank?Īlso, do you folks have any idea how I can get Cakewalk Sonar to register those sounds reliably on my circa 2005 Rodgers church organ, as it does the organ stops per se? IOW, I can set any combo or variant of its organ's sounds - those reach through tilting stop tabs - and Sonar will record and recall them perfectly, but the organ's orchestral patches (wrongly called 'MIDI' right on the console) only irregularly. But this misnomer has been built into how many million instruments now It merely is set up to respond to midi data received, and emit the actual sounds generated.Įxactly the answers/confirmations I wanted. The 'midi sound module' you refer to is really NOT midi at all.
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The above stays the same for virtual devices, and virtual synths, where you should see the soundbank setup as being a software implementation of the old style sound module or keyboard, which receives midi instructions from a midi 'controller' (or software), even though the two devices might be within a single computer and appear to be a single unit - still - the midi data is being generated by one part, and being implemented (and turned into the actual sounds) within the soundbank part. samples) which MIGHT change this current answer, but I think even the new spec will work mostly i the same way the current spec does. I think that the new (coming) midi spec could allow some sound data to be sent WITHIN midi (i.e. If both devices are GM, then the results could be very similar, but still different.
Hence the same set on instructions sent to one device could produce a different result from the same instructions sent to another device. The actual sound is totally the responsibility of the device that receives the midi instruction. Midi is simply instructions to tell other devices what sounds to play, and to make certain modifications to those sounds. I think from your comments that you do understand that there is actually no such thing as 'midi sounds'.
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