

Though MIDI was first invented in the early 1980s as synthesizers grew into a burgeoning industry, the General MIDI spec was defined in 1991 and is still frequently adhered to today! A composition saved as a MIDI is a sequence of notes and commands that will be played back by the computer's own MIDI drivers. mid file much smaller than an audio file, MIDI files have a rich history of use in computer games, software, and websites. This article, though, is about the MIDI BotB format, which is for a specific and iconic implementation, MSGS MIDI - the Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth, infamous for coming bundled with Windows since time immemorial (i.e. FL has its own plugin implementation named "Fruity LSD" that this template is set up with. Make sure not to use Fruity LSD's "reverb" and "chorus" options these are not supported by the format and won't appear in your exported MIDI file. Also, patches are best controlled through the MIDI Out channels' "Patch list" rather than LSD itself. MSGS MIDI uses 16 channels of sound, with channel 10 being reserved for drums. 128 melodic patches exist, as well as 9 different drumkits. Some of the melodic patches also have variants read more about this in the "GS Extension" section below.

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The sound is noticeably raw and free of any DSP effects such as reverb, chorus, distortion etc (unlike our other formats XG and MT-32). The maximum note polyphony of contemporary MSGS is 32, although it used to be 64 during the Windows XP days.
