| has gloss | eng: Yamaha XG or just XG is an extension to the General MIDI standard, created by Yamaha. It is similar in purpose to Rolands GS Standard. Relative to General MIDI, XG gained popularity by increasing the number of available instruments from 128 to over 600, and introduced a large set of standard controllers and parameters that composers could employ to achieve greater subtlety and realism in their compositions. The XG also has a synthesizer that provides a 32 note polyphonic feature which is shared through the supported 16 MIDI channels. Polyphony is needed to form a chord, and with complex chords a lower synthesizer sound is advised to avoid any clipped or dropped notes. XG has a wide range of sounds to form such complex chords and produces a vast variety of lower synthesizer sounds to choose from. |
