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Re: Playing standard kit with DLS synth
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Re: Playing standard kit with DLS synth


  • Subject: Re: Playing standard kit with DLS synth
  • From: Brian Willoughby <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:26:27 -0700


On Jun 12, 2009, at 12:56, Jeff Evans wrote:
Using MusicDeviceStartNote I'm unable to get sounds from the DLS Synth using the "standard kit" percussion instrument (0x4001). Or any of the other drum kits, for that matter, though I know synths often don't support more than the standard kit.

MusicDevicePrepareInstrument() returns noErr when asked to prepare the standard kit with the DLS synth, but then MusicDeviceStartNote produces the same default piano sound as before. Sort of makes me think that the upper byte of that word is being ignored and I'm getting instrument 1 instead.

All other instrument changes work fine, it's only the drum kits that do not. Does the DLS Synth not support the drum kits? Or is there some special step needed to select them?


I know very little about DLS, but General MIDI has been around a long time. Are you sending your MIDI Notes on Channel 10? The General MIDI standard is to have drums on channel 10, and perhaps the DLS is expecting this.

Brian Willoughby
Sound Consulting

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