Mac,

My experience with midi is limited to what little I've been exposed to it in BIAB. I realize that midi itself doesn't have sounds, it simply sends commands.

From Wikipedia:

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SoundFont banks are tightly integrated with MIDI devices and can be seamlessly used in place of General MIDI (GM) patches in many computer music sequencers. The sound quality of SoundFont banks is generally regarded as superior to standard GM banks, and many SoundFont banks have been created specifically to replace GM banks with samples of each corresponding musical instrument.




Based on this, I figured that soundfonts were more likely to be based on real instruments, (aka acoustic), and that GM patches were more likely to be based on samples of electronic instruments. Especially in light of how bad acoustic instruments like steel string guitar, mandolin, fiddle and banjo sound using the GM patches.

Whenever I can afford to, I'll fork over for a Ketron SD2 so I can get some decent sounds.

Bob

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