Sergino,
Remember, General MIDI, and GM2, are nothing more than standards. How each company institutes that standard is up to them.

As to 'unlimited voices', do you mean programs/patches/instruments or whatever you want to call the particular sound, or are you talking about polyphony? Again, polyphony is up to the manufacturer. My Korg has, I think, either 96 or over 100 notes of polyphony, which far exceeds the GM standard of 28. Also, whomever is implementing the GM/2/or 3 standard provides the 'tones.' An Acoustic Piano, no matter what GM standard you follow, may be horrid, bad, mediocre, good, or the best thing since sliced bread, all depending on what the manufacturer wants to do. What Yamaha does isn't what Korg does, or what Roland does, or anyone else for that matter.

As to anything beyond 24/96, we can't even do a full 24 bits as it is now, not without running into electron flow noise, and with a theoretical noise floor of 144 dB, what were you planning on recording? The singing song of a cricket chirping a mile away, and then a 2,000 pound bomb going off over that cricket? Because, that's about the dynamic range you're going to get with a full 24 bits. Going beyond that is useless, you'd never be able to go 0 to full scale without damaging your hearing.

Finally, until music companies retire the common CD, and switch everything to audio DVD, in the end, everything still gets played at 16/44.1 if your goal is to put it on a CD.

Gary

Last edited by Gary Curran; 12/28/09 04:17 PM.
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