Whats so great about ch.10?

[Newbie dude]

Why do I keep hearing channel 10 is best for MIDI drums? Why is it any better than 7 or 3?

 

[James Argo]

It's an ancient standard. 10 or 15 years ago, almost every device put their drums/percusion patch to respond only channel 10. To maintain compability with older synth, it's recomended to route drums track on channel 10. Some manufacturer (even softsynth) still use this standard (GM level1, level2, GS, XG, etc). But hey, it's not to worried about these days! Standard is made to be broken...


Jaymz

 

[TimOBrien]

Yup. Just doesn't matter, but most midi files you'll find have drums on 10 just to be consistent and keep you from getting a banging piano instead of drums.

Do whatever you want...

 

[fraserhutch]

It's actually the result of an engineering mistake: someone wanted to set a standard by reserving channels for piano bass and drums. They reserved the first three channels for them in binary (000, 0001, and 0010). But an implemention error occured when a non-engineer got confused and read 0001 in base 10

And we got stuck with the results


(just kidding, btw)

 

[VSProductions]

It's actually the result of an engineering mistake: someone wanted to set a standard by reserving channels for piano bass and drums. They reserved the first three channels for them in binary (000, 0001, and 0010). But an implemention error occured when a non-engineer got confused and read 0001 in base 10

And we got stuck with the results


(just kidding, btw)

you had me going "ohhh so thats why", you know wide eyed, drooling and nodding the head with agreement.

 

[fraserhutch]

you had me going "ohhh so thats why", you know wide eyed, drooling and nodding the head with agreement.

...........

 

[tangerine]

I have been using Midi for years I've still got my Atari ST with the original cubase on it. I couldn't tell you