Re: Repeater: MIDI (was record CFC)

[Tom Ritchford <tom@swirly.com>]

oops, a bad edit in the previous message:
here's the corrected version.

>>can you explain to a dummy what a midi bank change is?
>
>now, now, don't run yerself down!
>
>it's simple enough ONCE someone tells you.
>
>
>MIDI program changes tell a MIDI synthesizer to switch
>to a new sound. (*)
>
>However, there are only 128 possible MIDI program changes
>and a lot of synthesizers have a lot more than 128
>sounds.
>
>So in these synths, the sounds are organized into Banks.
>
>In order to switch between banks, you send a MIDI Bank
>Change command.  You can have up to 128 banks.  Each
>bank could have up to 128 programs completely independently.
>
>So that means that you can have up to 16384 different sounds.
>
>
>The way it works in practice is that you send a MIDI Bank
>Change command to select the bank, and then send a MIDI
>program change command to select the program.  It's
>effortless once you get it down and I don't seem to
>notice any extra delay in getting the program out...
>
>   /t
>
>
>(* - Actually some gizmos do other things with the program changes --
>for example, lighting units might move to a new scene -- but the
>idea still holds...)
>
>
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