Miles Sound System SDK 7.2a

Extended MIDI Global Timbre Library File Format

Discussion

For information about Global Timbre Library data in general, review the discussion of the GLIB program in the Tools-Reference Section, as well as the descriptions of timbre-related functions in the XMIDI Services Section.

In the expression below, ellipses are placed after the closing braces of data items which may be repeated.

File header, one entry for each timbre in file


{
  S8 timbre patch number
  S8 timbre bank number
  U32 offset of timbre length word from start of file
}
...

Structure of each timbre as stored in file


{
  U16 timbre length word (size of timbre in bytes + 2)
  {
    U8 timbre data byte
  }
  ...
}
...

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