On Tue, 17 Jan 2012, Tim Roberts wrote:
The MIDI file says "clarinet plays an Ab quarter note here", but it does not dictate what a clarinet sounds like, or what its attack/decay envelope sounds like.
It's even worse: the MIDI file says "The instrument with program change number xxx (which could be, according to the GM standard, a clarinet) plays a note with notenumber yyy (If you are lucky it is an Ab, but it can just as well be a soundeffect or noise without pitch)"
There is no law that says a MIDI file should follow the GM (General Midi) standard. MIDI already existed before the GM standard was introduced.
I have always disliked the way Program Changes are inserted in Lilypond syntax: by GM instrument NAME instead of by Midi Program Change NUMBER. I would prefer numbers.
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