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Encyclopedia: General MIDI (514 words) |
 | General MIDI 2 is a group of extensions made to General MIDI 1 in 1999, which increases both the number of available sounds and the amount of control available for sound editing and musical performance. |
| MIDI is almost directly responsible for bringing an end to the "wall of synthesizers" phenomenon in 1970s-80s rock music concerts, when musical keyboard performers were sometimes hidden behind banks of various instruments. |
| General MIDI (GM) was an attempt by the MIDI Manufacturer's Association (MMA) to resolve this problem by standardizing an instrument program number map, so that for example Program Change 1 always results in a piano sound on all GM-compliant players. |
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