Hardly anything can ruin your day more, when you're expecting a soft cello passage, and the cannons start exploding. One ought to be confident that the patch selected really sounds like a trumpet, tenor sax, bassoon, flute, etc. Here's where a tin ear can be a bit awkward, since one is limited in comparing a MIDI patch to an audio compact disc, the sounds of an acoustic musician living nearby, or Microsoft's CD ROM Musical Instruments . The purity of the sound of any patch will, of course, reflect the caliber of the synthesizer. And, incidentally, the reset function may be the most important procedure in MIDI-computing.
All sequencers have a reset switch.
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