i got a MIDI to USB cord from EBay and i just experienced some problems with the instruments. sometimes the guitars change to drum sets on certain midis and the drum sets play wrong on midis for example de1m1.mid.
HELP!!!
Crappy usb-midi cable? not all of them are good ones...
my power drum set is set to patch 017
Sounds like the same problem I'm having.
If you're using Winamp to play back your MIDI files do NOT use Immediate mode playback, use Streamed mode and this will no longer happen.
Another thing to do is send your reset commands before playing back a different song so that all your channels are set to the default state.
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ok i need to know what to set
Level Pan
Reverb Chorus
K shift MIDI ch
^ why do you need to set these? what are you trying to do exactly? playback of midi or create your own music?
You need to reset all the channels to Patch 0 MSB 0 LSB 0 before playing a different song and also turn off whatever note's are currently playing as well, for MIDI files that are expected to loop usually the author will put such reset commands at the end or begining of the song. If that is not the case then the game's driver usually (hopefully) handles that part...
I don't know much about setting that because I have all these programs doing it for me, so I'd suggest googling SysEx information related to your SC-55 to figure out how to reset the unit before playing back a new song on it.
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― Κυνικός Δράκων
vanBasco's Karaoke Player has an option to send a reset between each song, it works great.
Don't let the name fool you, it's a great midi player: http://www.vanbasco.com/karaokeplayer/
Heres what it sounds like on my SC-55
and heres a problem with a doom midi
hmmmm what happens if you reset manually the sc-55?
(on standby mode hold the INSTRUMENT RIGHT button and press the POWER one. The screen will say "Init GS, sure?" , press the ALL button to reset the unit)
Do the midis sound the same after the reset? If they still sound the same, please attach them here, maybe they are not good... or maybe the usb cable really messes the midi SysEx data and they don't get transmitted or something
thanks man! it now works! 😁
Ah, so it was bad settings stored in the unit... glad you got it going 😀
I also suggest you open your sc-55 and check on the battery inside: Have you opened your SC-55 to check the battery inside?
