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This section lists the Instruments in the General MIDI and Beatnik Special banks.

Beatnik playback software generally includes two Built-In Instrument banks: Bank 0 contains General MIDI Instruments, and Bank 1 contains Beatnik Special Instruments. Every Instrument bank contains both Melodic Instruments and Percussion Instruments. In most cases, these Built-In instruments are kept in a disk file named patches.hsb (or some variation on that name).
This section lists all the Melodic and Percussion Instruments in the Built-In General MIDI and Beatnik Special banks.
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Built-In Melodic Instruments

Built-In Percussion Instruments

Note: Bank 2 is reserved for Custom Instruments in RMF files.

Built-In Melodic Instruments

Melodic instruments are selected by MIDI Bank Select and Program Change messages.

MIDI Program
Number
Bank 0: General MIDI
(Melodic)
Bank 1: Beatnik Special
(Melodic)
0 Piano Soft Piano
1 Bright Piano Reflection Piano
2 Electric Grand Flange Piano
3 Honky Tonk Piano Octopus Piano
4 Electric Piano 1 Flange Electric Piano
5 Electric Piano 2 Tremolo Electric Piano
6 Harpsichord Chorus Harpsichord
7 Clavinet Ondioline
8 Celesta Curious Chime
9 Glockenspiel Swirly Bell
10 Music Box Echo Bell
11 Vibraphone Vibraphone 2
12 Marimba Soft Marimba
13 Xylophone Percolator
14 Tubular Bell Reverse Bell
15 Dulcimer Percussive Piano
16 Hammond Organ Rot. Speaker Organ 1
17 Perc Organ Bright Perc Organ
18 Rock Organ Growl Organ
19 Church Organ Chorus Church Organ
20 Reed Organ Sawteeth
21 Accordion Expressive Accordion
22 Harmonica Corny Harmonica
23 Tango Accordion Squeeze Box
24 Nylon Str Guitar Acoustic Bass Gtr
25 Steel String Guitar Mute Guitar 2
26 Jazz Electric Gtr Chorus Jazz Guitar
27 Clean Guitar Tremolo Guitar
28 Muted Guitar Echo Mute Bass
29 Overdrive Guitar Grungey Guitar
30 Distortion Guitar Flange Guitar
31 Guitar Harmonics Flange Guitar Stab
32 Acoustic Bass Dark Syn Bass
33 Fingered Bass Jungle Bass
34 Picked Bass Jungle Bass 2
35 Fretless Bass Chorus Bass
36 Slap Bass 1 Synth Slap Bass
37 Slap Bass 2 Lowrider
38 Syn Bass 1 OB Bass
39 Syn Bass 2 OB Bass 2
40 Violin Synth Violin
41 Viola Robot Threat
42 Cello Formula 1
43 Contrabass Deep Bass Stab
44 Tremolo Strings Trill Strings
45 Pizzicato Strings Cello Stroke
46 Orchestral Harp VibHarp
47 Timpani Tuned Drum
48 Ensemble Strings sfz Strings
49 Slow Strings Moving Strings
50 Synth Strings 1 Heads of Space
51 Synth Strings 2 Slow Synth Strings
52 Choir Aahs Slow Choir Aahs
53 Voice Oohs Pulsing Voices
54 Syn Choir Cloudscapes
55 Orchestra Hit Hype Orch Hit
56 Trumpet Accent Trumpet
57 Trombone Accent Trombone
58 Tuba Mellow Trombone
59 Muted Trumpet Muted Trumpet 2
60 French Horn French Horn Swell
61 Brass Ensemble Brass Ensemble 2
62 Syn Brass 1 Syn Brass 3
63 Syn Brass 2 Syn Brass 4
64 Soprano Sax Lyrical Sax
65 Alto Sax Accent Sax
66 Tenor Sax Slow Sax
67 Baritone Sax Staccato Sax
68 Oboe Lyrical Oboe
69 English Horn Soft Lead Synth
70 Bassoon Staccato Bassoon
71 Clarinet Smooth Clarinet
72 Piccolo Accent Piccolo
73 Flute Lyrical Flute
74 Recorder Mello Breath
75 Pan Flute Peruvian
76 Bottle Blow Breath Echoes
77 Shakuhachi Apparition
78 Whistle Humorous Whistle
79 Ocarina Strobes
80 Syn Square Wave Teletronic
81 Syn Saw Wave 5th Pulse
82 Syn Calliope Moon Jelly
83 Syn Chiff Ricochet Pad
84 Syn Charang Rock Radiation
85 Syn Voice Solo Vox 2
86 Syn Fifths Saw 5th Saw Drone
87 Syn Brass and Lead Lead Synth 2
88 Fantasia Fantasy Bells
89 Warm Pad Slow Warm Pad
90 Polysynth Polysynth 2
91 Space Vox 50's Sci-Fi
92 Bowed Glass Watery Glass
93 Metal Pad UFOs
94 Halo Pad Soprano
95 Sweep Pad Refractions
96 Ice Rain Comet Tails
97 Soundtrack Soundtrack 2
98 Crystal Friendly Data
99 Atmosphere Analog Sequence
100 Brightness Luminous Voice
101 Goblins Goblins 2
102 Echo Drops Tick Blok
103 Sci Fi Droplet
104 Sitar Droplet 2
105 Banjo Video Game 1
106 Shamisen Video Game 2
107 Koto Digi-Dodo
108 Kalimba Fairy Godmother
109 Bag Pipe Alarm
110 Fiddle Hoverbug
111 Shanai Crickets
112 Tinkle Bell Beatnik
113 Agogo Teletype
114 Steel Drums Carriage Return
115 Woodblock Typewriter Key
116 Taiko Drum Cash Register
117 Melodic Tom Thru Phone Chirp
118 Syn Drum Whipped
119 Reverse Cymbal Pop Click
120 Guitar Fret Noise Metal Chirp
121 Breath Noise Poing
122 Seashore Metal Spray
123 Bird FlyBy 1
124 Telephone FlyBy 2
125 Helicopter Cosmic Ray
126 Applause SampHold
127 Gunshot SampHold 2



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