Dear Csounders,

I had a question concerning using Csound instruments with
Midi2Cs 0.95's GM feature and decided not only to tell it the
person who asked. It might be of general interest if I did
leave something out that wasn't obvious in the manual ...

Enjoy!
Ruediger Borrmann
http://www.snafu.de/~rubo/songlab/midi2cs


GM supported - 'midi2cs.gmi' (General Midi Instrument) config file

     A new file 'midi2cs.gmi' will be created in the config files's
     directory the first time you start Midi2Cs 0.95. This file is the
     new General Midi Instrument's configuration file. It looks like
     this:

          ; MIDI2CS - General Midi instrument table
          ; Program Number - Instrument (WAV, AIFF or ORC file)
          000 "" ;Acoustic Grand
          001 "" ;Bright Acoustic
          002 "d:\studio\samples\gm\acpiac3.aif" ;Electric Grand
          003 "" ;Honky-Tonk
          004 "" ;Electric Piano 1
          005 "" ;Electric Piano 2
          006 "" ;Harpichord
          007 "" ;Clav
          008 "" ;Celesta 009
          ...
          048 "d:\studio\csounds\strings\strings.orc" ;String
          Ensemble 1
          ...

     Just add your own *.aif, *.wav, *.orc (see Midi2Cs's manual)
     files to design your own individual General Midi Instrument set.
     Next time you run a conversion of a MIDIfile the instruments of
     this table will be used as presets for all tracks in your
     MIDIfile that contain GM program changes (the first change will
     be taken).