Originally Posted By: rharv
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Why? Because GM must contain 128 instruments and 7 drum kits, thus they are constrained by the total sample size (KBs).


This is not really true.
I have GM sample sets ranging in size from a few meg to a few gig.
The GM spec does not restrict the sample size; the synth/hardware does.

'Finding' a good GM sample set is a whole 'nother problem, but the spec isn't the issue. There could be more awesome GM sound sets if there were a market for it.


By being constrained by total sample size I meant to indicate that a GM sound set with excellent sounds like those from Kontak, Sampltank, East West Play, etc, would be an extremely huge file and would take sometime to load. I'd bet many of us don't have the HD space or the ram to use such a huge file. I have 16 Gigs of ram and I don't think that would be enough.

I agree that there is a very limited market for GM. Anyone serious about using better MIDI sounds moves away from GM very quickly.

I apologize for any inconvenience that I may have caused.

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