To tack on to what Slau said,
You can import a midi file from the internet, but you are stuck
assigning each track to it's own instrument in the air creative collection.
It's extremely time consuming.
In the cakewalk world, you would assign all the midi tracks to 1
instance of something like Bandstand or the included Cakewalk tts1,
which is a virtual version of the basic Roland sound canvas.
The instrument responds to midi bank and patch changes, so the correct
sound is selected for each track.
I have googled and googled trying to find a similar software instrument
for Pro Tools, but with no avail.
On the mac side of things, if I need to use gm, I run each midi track to
an IAC bus into a little app called DLS MIDI player, which I purchased
on the app store.
It loads sound fonts, and I use something like the Unity GM soundfont or
similar.
I had to buy the DLS player because guess what? Apple abandoned the GM
standard as well.
As of Mavericks, they pulled the DLS midi player from the Core of the
OS. Have you noticed that you can't quicklook midi files anymore?
Go look in the forums. That pissed a bunch of their user base off.
Including me.
Chad Morrison on this list was one of my students, and probably
remembers the day that we, as a class, discovered this.
So, I dropped 20 bucks into an app that I used to get for free.
People in the pro audio world want to say that GM is such an old
standard and is no longer needed.
I say Bah Humbug. As long as people need to push MIDI files between 2
foreign systems, GM is most certainly needed. And folks like Apple and
Avid abandoning it by not bundling a basic gm compatible synth makes it
harder in certain situations.
Sorry for the rant.
Kevin
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