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by nnd 3284 days ago
Very little? More like none.
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ssalazar 3282 days ago
Program change + general MIDI instrument set is implementation-dependent but was pretty common in the 90s, and encodes timbre in an extremely limited way. Now of course nobody outside of fringe artists really use it.
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iammyIP 3284 days ago
it got very basic description in form of instrument index, so program 0 is piano, 4 guitar and so on.
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