general MIDI poly format in sonar

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Hi,
I've also posted this question in "MIDI Mania" because I was unsure which would be the right place to post it.
I've been working in MIDI with years using Sonar/Reason. Recently someone asked me to produce general MIDI 16-poly ringtones for him and to send him the "general MIDI poly format." He also asked me if I have experience "producing MIDI tracks using General MIDI protocol"
I have no clue what this means. I have years of experience working in MIDI where I record in MIDI using Sonar/Reason Rewire and then bounce it to audio as a Wav file. Can someone please explain to me exactly what he is asking me to do and how to go about doing that in Sonar?
Any help is GREATLY appreciated.
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[fraserhutch]

General Midi is just a standard for assigning patch numbers to a set of instruments.

Google is your friend :
http://www.midi.org/about-midi/gm/gminfo.shtml
http://www.borg.com/~jglatt/tutr/gm.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_MIDI

It has NOTHING to do with Sonar, other than the fact that Sonar comes with a General Midi patch list.

 

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thanks for the reply.
So what file extension is that? is it .mid? how do you create a .mid file in sonar?

 

[fraserhutch]

Just export the file as a standard midi file.

 

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thanks a lot