playing percussion notes

[yrdawson]

Hi

How do i play percussion notes using midicontrol. I tried channel 9 (works with the sun wtk) channel 10 (midi spec) and even channel 11 (just for fun ) but none seem to work on a nokia device (im using a 5800). All midi channels on the nokia seem to work as a normal instrument channel.

[frasene]

Try this, it work now on my Nokia N73...


public void initDrums(int can)
{
// SP-MIDI supports two percussion (drum) channels, Channel 10 (default)
// and Channel 11, which defaults to a melodic channel but can be
// switched to a percussion channel using the following sequence of messages:
// 1. Bank select message (Control Change #0) with Bank# MSB value 120 (0x78H)
// 2. Bank select message (Control Change #32) with Bank# LSB value 0 (0x00H)
// 3. Program Change message with value 1 (0x00H)
try {
mControl.shortMidiEvent(MIDIControl.CONTROL_CHANGE | can, 0, 120);
mControl.shortMidiEvent(MIDIControl.CONTROL_CHANGE | can, 32, 0);
mControl.shortMidiEvent(196 | can, 1, 0);
} catch (Exception e) {
System.out.println(e.toString());
}
}


A+

[yrdawson]

Awesome
I will try it out and see if it works. Tks