Roland RP201 Manual Do Utilizador

 

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About the RP201 Sound Generator

 

The General MIDI is a set of recommendations which seeks to provide a way to go beyond the limitations of proprietary designs, and standardize the 

MIDI capabilities of sound generating devices. Sound generating devices and music files that meets the General MIDI standard bears the General MIDI 

logo. Music files bearing the General MIDI logo can be played back using any General MIDI sound generating unit to produce essentially the same 

musical performance.

 

The upwardly compatible General MIDI 2 recommendations pick up where the original General MIDI left off, offering enhanced expressive capabilities, 

and even greater compatibility. Issues that were not covered by the original General MIDI recommendations, such as how sounds are to be edited, and 

how effects should be handled, have now been precisely defined. Moreover, the available sounds have been expanded. General MIDI 2 compliant 

sound generators are capable of reliably playing back music files that carry either the General MIDI or General MIDI 2 logo. 

In some cases, the conventional form of General MIDI, which does not include the new enhancements, is referred to as “General MIDI 1” as a way of 

distinguishing it from General MIDI 2. 

 

The GS Format is Roland’s set of specifications for standardizing the performance of sound generating devices. In addition to including support for 

everything defined by the General MIDI, the highly compatible GS Format additionally offers an expanded number of sounds, provides for the editing 

of sounds, and spells out many details for a wide range of extra features, including effects such as reverb and chorus. Designed with the future in mind, 

the GS Format can readily include new sounds and support new hardware features when they arrive. Since it is upwardly compatible with the General 

MIDI, Roland’s GS Format is capable of reliably playing back GM Scores equally as well as it performs GS music files (music files that have been created 

with the GS Format in mind).

 

XG is a tone generator format of YAMAHA Corporation, that defines the ways in which voices are expanded or edited and the structure and type of 

effects, in addition to the General MIDI 1 specification. XGlite is a simplified version of XG tone generation format. You can play back any XG music files 

using an XGlite tone generator. However, keep in mind that some music files may play back differently compared to the original files, due to the 

reduced set of control parameters and effects.

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