Who was the person who chose general midi sounds

[digitalboytn]

IIRC it was General Midi himself who chose those sounds ... they rock for military style stuff

This is almost correct....but not quite...

In the beginning General MIDI used to pick his own sounds,but after he lost his right arm and was wounded in the left buttocks,he found it too difficult to sit for prolonged periods of time...

So he left the task to his assistant,but unfortunately,he was tone deaf and dyslexic,as well as suffering from dwarfism...

Not one to be deterred,General MIDI appointed his son,General MIDI 2 as the keeper of the flame and he was doing a fine job until he was struck by a crochet and mortally wounded at the Battle of Agincourt...

Unfortunately,things have not progressed so much in MIDI land after that time...

And anyone who tells you a different story about MIDI development is lying through their teeth

[chk071]

A 21 gun salute to General MIDI. And Major DAW.

[Watchful]

A 21 gun salute to General MIDI. And Major DAW.

Sorry. The limit is 16 guns.

[vurt]

and private browsing!

[chk071]

A 21 gun salute to General MIDI. And Major DAW.

Sorry. The limit is 16 guns.

Well... 8 for MIDI then (coz 8-bit), and 64 for DAW.

and private browsing!

[digitalboytn]

Let's not forget Major Cockup's role in all of this....

He has an awful lot of explaining to do

[AdvancedFollower]

Where is supersaw, well there is none. And wub-wub sounds these unmusical dubsteb -like sounds are nowhere to be found. It just not forward thinking enough.

roland standardized the general midi soundset in 1991; the supersaw didn't exist until 1997 and the hard wub-wub didn't exist until 2011

so you're saying roland had no foresight, how can we trust a company that doesn't own a chrono-visor?

Well the Alpha Junos had the Hoover sound which is pretty close to a super-saw, just not baked into one oscillator.

But yeah, 1991 was this awkward time in history where happy meal-quality buttons, incremental data wheels and tiny 2-line segmented displays had replaced knobs and sliders, and "Digital Sound" was a badge of honor. By 1997, the trend reversed, with knobby/slider-y virtual analogs like the Virus, JP-8000, Nord Lead etc.

[Acid Mitch]

Well the Alpha Junos had the Hoover sound which is pretty close to a super-saw, just not baked into one oscillator.
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Alpha Juno hoover is a single oscillator sound.
Alpha Juno only has 1 osc per voice.

[tonedef71]

Lots of sources exist for decent GM sounds, often free, as Sound Fonts if you don't want a dedicated piece of multi-sampled hardware.

Indeed. This particular company's entire business is all about making and selling premium quality GM/GS/XG soundfonts: https://www.gmsoundfont.com/

[Watchful]

A 21 gun salute to General MIDI. And Major DAW.

Sorry. The limit is 16 guns.

Well... 8 for MIDI then (coz 8-bit), and 64 for DAW.

And that gunshot needs to be program 128.