I overhauled Band-in-a-Box and Home Concert Extreme
I have posted a major overhaul of Band in a Box
http://web.me.com/newdotmacuser/CurtisRushBell/SoftwareInnovations/Entries/2000/8/20Band-in-a-Box.html
and
Home Concert Extreme
http://web.me.com/newdotmacuser/CurtisRushBell/SoftwareInnovations/Entries/2010/7/12_7_Home_ConcertExtreme.html
These innovations have DRASTICALLY improved both softwares immensely.
Now if I could only get the Gods to look down beneath their feet...
Let me add that I didn't want to split hairs, it's just that "General Midi" is a technical term, it means (among other things) that you have a set of 128 instruments that are specified in a standard. That's the reason why you can click on a midi file in your web browser or open it with QT Player, and it will sound approximately like the creator wanted it to sound - the drum track won't play on a piano etc.
On the Mac, Quicktime provides this set of instruments. It's not very great sounds, but it's okay, and it could have been easily integrated into GB, I have no idea why they didn't. If you have SoundFontSynth, which allows you to use banks of soundfonts, you can select the Quicktime GM instruments for your GB tracks.
More information on GM:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_MIDI
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