This listing contains all the General MIDI percussion tones on channel 10, which is the channel reserved for percussion. (Note you can also set the patch to 2 (in the Instrument List) to use marching percussion sounds or patch 49 to use orchestral percussion sounds. See General MIDI Marching Percussion MIDI Map Table and General MIDI Orchestral Percussion MIDI Map Table). Refer to the Percussion MIDI Map Editor dialog box for additional percussion MIDI Note mappings.

Tip: To see the relationship between MIDI Note numbers and pitches on a piano keyboard see the MIDI Note to Pitch Table.

General MIDI Standards: Instrument Patch Map. TABLE 1 - General MIDI Instrument Patch Map (groups sounds into sixteen families, with 8 instruments in each family). Below is a Drum kit patch map for the GM Standard Drum Kit. Note that most synths have additional drum sounds below and above this range of notes. In addition to note numbers (for example, 60,61,62), PG Music software often refers to note names (for example.

Note Number Note Name

35.........................Acoustic Bass Drum

36.........................Bass Drum 1

37.........................Side Stick

38 ........................Acoustic Snare

39.........................Hand Clap

40.........................Electric Snare

41.........................Low Floor Tom

42.........................Closed Hi Hat

43.........................High Floor Tom

44.........................Pedal Hi Hat

45.........................Low Tom

General Midi Instrument Patch Maps

46.........................Open Hi Hat

47.........................Low-Mid Tom

48 ........................Hi-Mid Tom

49.........................Crash Cymbal 1

50.........................High Tom

51.........................Ride Cymbal 1

52.........................Chinese Cymbal

53.........................Ride Bell

54.........................Tambourine

55.........................Splash Cymbal

56.........................Cowbell

57.........................Crash Cymbal 2

58.........................Vibraslap

59.........................Ride Cymbal 2

60.........................Hi Bongo

61.........................Low Bongo

62.........................Mute Hi Conga

63.........................Open Hi Conga

64.........................Low Conga

65.........................High Timbale

66.........................Low Timbale

67.........................High Agogo

General Midi Level 1 Instrument Patch Map

68.........................Low Agogo

69.........................Cabasa

70.........................Maracas

71.........................Short Whistle

72.........................Long Whistle

73.........................Short Guiro

74.........................Long Guiro

75.........................Claves

76.........................Hi Wood Block

General Midi Map

77.........................Low Wood Block

78.........................Mute Cuica

79.........................Open Cuica

80.........................Mute Triangle

81.........................Open Triangle

See Also:

Midi Instrument List