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DRUMS WEEK 2025: Many computer musicians shy away from programming their own acoustic (as opposed to electronic) drum tracks, understandably concerned that since they don’t know how to play a real ...

A second push-dial on the top of the speaker is used to operate the rhythm machine. This offers 50 patterns and several great-sounding kits (both acoustic and electronic) and, in terms of being a ...

I've spent the last three days trying to write a simple piece of software that translates specified MIDI messages into Open Sound Control messages. I'm very new at this, so I decided to code it in ...

A standard set of 128 sounds for MIDI sound cards and devices (synthesizers, sound modules, etc.). By assigning instruments to specific MIDI patch locations, General MIDI provides a standard way of ...

When I began collecting links for the Linux Sound & Music Applications pages I frequented a variety of announcement and news services. Some of those services are no longer with us, some have been ...

MIDI is, in a word, a godsend. This unassuming data-transfer standard is the magic sauce that enables drastically different music technologies, developed decades apart, to tell each other what to do – ...