This page is read from MIDI Instrument Definitions, a Python library used in the author's other projects, in which every number is traced to a document its maker published. Its source is on GitHub.

MIDI Instrument Definitions

These pages set out the MIDI messages a number of popular instruments answer to, each read from its maker's own documents. They began with the author's own instruments, so that the software on this site could work with them, and grow a few models at a time so that they are useful to other developers and musicians too.

There are 172 models from 36 makers so far: 1010music, Ableton, Access, Akai Professional, Alesis, Arturia, ASM, Behringer, Dirtywave, Dreadbox, Elektron, Ensoniq, Erica Synths, Expressive E, Groove Synthesis, Intellijel, Korg, Make Noise, Modal Electronics, Moog Music, Native Instruments, Nord, Novation, Oberheim, Polyend, PWM, Roland, Sequential, Soma, Synthstrom Audible, teenage engineering, UDO Audio, Vermona, Voce, Waldorf, and Yamaha. Each is loaded in Python by the name beside it, as in pymidiinstrumentdefs.load("ableton/move").

1010music

• Blackbox ten_ten_music/blackbox: 18 parts; 16 drums; 3 controls, and more the player assigns; sends and follows MIDI clock; firmware 3.1.9.

Ableton

• Move ableton/move: 4 parts; no controls; sends and follows MIDI clock; firmware 2.1.1.

Access

• Virus TI access/virus_ti: 16 parts; 8 controls; sends and follows MIDI clock.

Akai Professional

• MPC Key 37 akai/mpc_key_37: 3 controls, and more the player assigns; sends and follows MIDI clock; firmware 3.9.1.
• MPC Live akai/mpc_live: 2 controls, and more the player assigns; sends and follows MIDI clock; firmware 3.9.1.
• MPC Live III akai/mpc_live_iii: 2 controls, and more the player assigns; sends and follows MIDI clock; firmware 3.9.1.
• MPC Sample akai/mpc_sample: 32 voices; sends and follows MIDI clock; firmware 1.3.0.
• MPC XL akai/mpc_xl: 2 controls, and more the player assigns; sends and follows MIDI clock; firmware 3.9.1.

Alesis

• SR-16 alesis/sr_16: 16 voices; 12 drums; no controls; sends and follows MIDI clock.

Arturia

• AstroLab arturia/astrolab: 2 parts; 37 controls; follows MIDI clock; firmware 2.0.0.
• AstroLab 37 arturia/astrolab_37: 2 parts; 35 controls; follows MIDI clock; firmware 2.0.0.
• DrumBrute arturia/drumbrute: 17 drums; controls the player assigns; sends and follows MIDI clock; firmware 1.2.1.0.
• DrumBrute Impact arturia/drumbrute_impact: 19 drums; controls the player assigns; sends and follows MIDI clock; firmware 1.0.9.381.
• MatrixBrute arturia/matrixbrute: 1 part; 80 controls; follows MIDI clock; firmware 2.0.3.1411.
• MicroBrute arturia/microbrute: one voice; 13 controls; follows MIDI clock; firmware 1.0.4.114.
• MicroFreak arturia/microfreak: 4 voices, paraphonic; 21 controls; sends and follows MIDI clock; firmware 5.0.0.
• MiniFreak arturia/minifreak: 1, 6, or 12 voices, paraphonic; 42 controls; sends and follows MIDI clock; firmware 4.0.0.
• PolyBrute arturia/polybrute: 1 or 6 voices; 2 parts; 74 controls; sends and follows MIDI clock.
• PolyBrute 12 arturia/polybrute_12: 1, 2, 3, 6, or 12 voices; answers to MPE; 2 parts; 75 controls; sends and follows MIDI clock.

ASM

• Hydrasynth Explorer asm/hydrasynth_explorer: 8 voices; answers to MPE; 112 controls; sends and follows MIDI clock; firmware 2.2.0.
• Leviasynth asm/leviasynth: answers to MPE; 2 parts; 109 controls; sends and follows MIDI clock; firmware 1.2.0.

Behringer

• 2600 behringer/b2600: 1 or 2 voices.
• DeepMind 12 behringer/deepmind_12: 12 voices; 269 controls; sends and follows MIDI clock; firmware 1.1.2.
• EDGE behringer/edge: one voice; follows MIDI clock.
• LM DRUM behringer/lm_drum: 16 parts; 16 drums; 17 controls; follows MIDI clock; firmware 1.1.5.
• MODEL D behringer/model_d: one voice.
• NEUTRON behringer/neutron: 1 or 2 voices, paraphonic; 2 controls; follows MIDI clock.
• PRO-800 behringer/pro_800: 1 or 8 voices; 70 controls; follows MIDI clock.
• RD-6 behringer/rd_6: 8 voices; 8 drums; no controls; follows MIDI clock.
• RD-9 behringer/rd_9: 10 voices; 11 drums; no controls; follows MIDI clock.
• TD-3 behringer/td_3: one voice; no controls; follows MIDI clock.
• TD-3-MO behringer/td_3_mo: one voice; 1 control; follows MIDI clock.
• UB-Xa behringer/ub_xa: 16 voices.

Dirtywave

• M8 dirtywave/m8: 8 parts; controls the player assigns; sends and follows MIDI clock; firmware 6.5.2.

Dreadbox

• Artemis dreadbox/artemis: 1, 2, 3, or 6 voices; answers to MPE; 85 controls; follows MIDI clock; firmware 1.2.0.
• Nymphes dreadbox/nymphes: 1, 2, 3, or 6 voices; answers to MPE; 82 controls; follows MIDI clock; firmware 2.1.
• Typhon dreadbox/typhon: 98 controls; sends and follows MIDI clock; firmware 4.2.

Elektron

• Analog Four elektron/analog_four: 4 voices; 7 parts; 229 controls; sends and follows MIDI clock; firmware 1.56.
• Analog Rytm MKII elektron/analog_rytm_mkii: 8 voices; 14 parts; 99 controls; sends and follows MIDI clock; firmware 1.74.
• Digitakt elektron/digitakt: 17 parts; 95 controls; sends and follows MIDI clock; firmware 1.53.
• Digitakt II elektron/digitakt_ii: 17 parts; 144 controls; sends and follows MIDI clock; firmware 1.17.
• Digitone elektron/digitone: 8 voices; 9 parts; 122 controls; sends and follows MIDI clock; firmware 1.43.
• Digitone II elektron/digitone_ii: 16 voices; 17 parts; 164 controls; sends and follows MIDI clock; firmware 1.12.
• Machinedrum elektron/machinedrum: 16 parts; 16 drums; 71 controls; sends and follows MIDI clock; firmware 1.63.
• Model:Cycles elektron/model_cycles: 7 parts; 30 controls; sends and follows MIDI clock; firmware 1.13.
• Model:Samples elektron/model_samples: 7 parts; 29 controls; sends and follows MIDI clock; firmware 1.13.
• Octatrack elektron/octatrack: 16 parts; 99 controls; sends and follows MIDI clock; firmware 1.40C.
• Syntakt elektron/syntakt: 13 parts; 107 controls; sends and follows MIDI clock; firmware 1.42.
• Tonverk elektron/tonverk: 28 parts; 250 controls; sends and follows MIDI clock; firmware 1.4.1.

Ensoniq

• ESQ-1 ensoniq/esq_1: 8 voices; 8 parts; 8 controls; sends and follows MIDI clock; firmware 3.0.

Erica Synths

• HexDrums erica_synths/hexdrums: 10 drums; no controls; sends and follows MIDI clock.
• PĒRKONS HD-01 erica_synths/perkons_hd_01: 4 voices; 2 modes; 55 controls, and more the player assigns; sends and follows MIDI clock; firmware 1.2.
• Steampipe erica_synths/steampipe: 1 or 8 voices; answers to MPE; follows MIDI clock; firmware 1.1.

Expressive E

• Osmose expressive_e/osmose: 24 voices; answers to MPE; 17 controls; follows MIDI clock; firmware 2.3.

Groove Synthesis

• 3rd Wave groove_synthesis/third_wave: 24 voices; answers to MPE; 515 controls; sends and follows MIDI clock; firmware 2.0c.
• 3rd Wave 24M groove_synthesis/third_wave_24m: 24 voices; answers to MPE; 518 controls; sends and follows MIDI clock; firmware 2.0c.
• 3rd Wave 8M groove_synthesis/third_wave_8m: 8 voices; answers to MPE; 477 controls; sends and follows MIDI clock; firmware 2.0c.

Intellijel

• Cascadia intellijel/cascadia: 1 or 2 voices; answers to MPE; 4 controls, and more the player assigns; sends and follows MIDI clock; firmware 1.4.4.0.

Korg

• drumlogue korg/drumlogue: 2 modes; 11 drums; 245 controls; sends and follows MIDI clock.
• electribe korg/electribe: 24 voices; 20 controls; sends and follows MIDI clock.
• KRONOS korg/kronos: 16 parts; 87 controls, and more the player assigns; sends and follows MIDI clock.
• M1 korg/m1: 8 or 16 voices; 8 parts; 8 controls; sends and follows MIDI clock.
• microKORG korg/microkorg: 4 voices; 71 controls, and more the player assigns; sends and follows MIDI clock.
• microKORG2 korg/microkorg2: 8 voices; 2 parts; 189 controls; sends and follows MIDI clock; firmware 1.02.
• minilogue korg/minilogue: 1, 2, or 4 voices; 41 controls; sends and follows MIDI clock; firmware 2.01.
• minilogue xd korg/minilogue_xd: 4 voices; 121 controls; sends and follows MIDI clock; firmware 2.10.
• modwave mk II korg/modwave_mk_ii: 1 or 60 voices; 2 parts; 22 controls, and more the player assigns; sends and follows MIDI clock; firmware 3.0.
• monologue korg/monologue: one voice; 24 controls; sends and follows MIDI clock; firmware 2.00.
• MS-20 mini korg/ms_20_mini: no controls.
• multi/poly korg/multi_poly: 60 voices; 4 parts; 50 controls, and more the player assigns; sends and follows MIDI clock.
• NTS-1 digital kit korg/nts_1: one voice; 29 controls; sends and follows MIDI clock; firmware 1.20.
• opsix korg/opsix: 32 voices; 30 controls; sends and follows MIDI clock; firmware 3.1.0.
• RADIAS korg/radias: 1 or 24 voices; 2 modes; 176 controls, and more the player assigns; sends and follows MIDI clock; firmware 2.0.
• TRITON korg/triton: 31 or 62 voices; 16 parts; 65 controls; sends and follows MIDI clock; firmware 2.5.3.
• volca bass korg/volca_bass: 12 controls; follows MIDI clock.
• volca beats korg/volca_beats: 10 drums; 20 controls; follows MIDI clock.
• volca drum korg/volca_drum: 2 modes; 85 controls; follows MIDI clock.
• volca fm korg/volca_fm: 1 or 3 voices; 11 controls; follows MIDI clock; firmware 1.07.
• volca keys korg/volca_keys: 1 or 3 voices; 16 controls; follows MIDI clock; firmware 1.03.
• volca sample korg/volca_sample: 8 voices; 10 parts; 11 controls; follows MIDI clock; firmware 1.42.
• wavestate korg/wavestate: 64 voices; 4 parts; 78 controls, and more the player assigns; sends and follows MIDI clock.
• Wavestation korg/wavestation: 8, 16, or 32 voices; 17 parts; 13 controls; follows MIDI clock; firmware 3.0.

Make Noise

• 0-COAST make_noise/zero_coast: one voice; 2 parts; 19 controls; follows MIDI clock; firmware 1.6.8.

Modal Electronics

• CARBON8M modal/carbon8m: 1, 2, 4, or 8 voices; answers to MPE; 106 controls; sends and follows MIDI clock.

Moog Music

• DFAM moog/dfam: no MIDI at all.
• Grandmother moog/grandmother: one voice; 24 controls; sends and follows MIDI clock; firmware 1.1.3.
• Labyrinth moog/labyrinth: no controls; follows MIDI clock.
• Little Phatty Stage II moog/little_phatty: one voice; 52 controls; follows MIDI clock; firmware 2.2.
• Matriarch moog/matriarch: 1, 2, or 4 voices, paraphonic; 37 controls; sends and follows MIDI clock; firmware 1.3.0.
• Messenger moog/messenger: one voice; answers to MPE; 56 controls; sends and follows MIDI clock.
• Minimoog Model D moog/minimoog_model_d: one voice; 1 control.
• Minitaur moog/minitaur: one voice; 37 controls; follows MIDI clock; firmware 2.1.
• Mother-32 moog/mother_32: one voice; 7 controls; follows MIDI clock; firmware 2.0.1.
• Muse moog/muse: 1 or 8 voices; 2 parts; 102 controls; sends and follows MIDI clock; firmware 1.4.0.
• Slim Phatty moog/slim_phatty: one voice; 52 controls; follows MIDI clock.
• Sub 37 moog/sub_37: 1 or 2 voices, paraphonic; 116 controls; sends and follows MIDI clock; firmware 1.2.0.
• Subharmonicon moog/subharmonicon: 12 controls; follows MIDI clock; firmware 1.1.1.
• Subsequent 37 moog/subsequent_37: 1 or 2 voices, paraphonic; 116 controls; sends and follows MIDI clock; firmware 1.2.0.
• Theremini moog/theremini: 28 controls, and more the player assigns; firmware 1.1.

Native Instruments

• MASCHINE+ native_instruments/maschine_plus: 2 parts; 2 controls, and more the player assigns; sends and follows MIDI clock.

Nord

• Lead A1 nord/lead_a1: 26 voices; 4 parts; 68 controls; follows MIDI clock; firmware 1.36.

Novation

• Bass Station II novation/bass_station_ii: one voice that can play paraphonically; 94 controls; follows MIDI clock.
• Circuit novation/circuit: 4 parts; 4 drums; 299 controls; sends and follows MIDI clock; firmware 1.8.
• Circuit Rhythm novation/circuit_rhythm: 9 parts; 8 drums; 74 controls; sends and follows MIDI clock; firmware 2.0.
• Circuit Tracks novation/circuit_tracks: 6 parts; 4 drums; 358 controls; sends and follows MIDI clock.
• MiniNova novation/mininova: 18 voices; 557 controls; follows MIDI clock.
• Peak novation/peak: 1 or 8 voices; 246 controls; follows MIDI clock; firmware 2.1.
• Summit novation/summit: 1 or 16 voices; 2 parts; 250 controls; follows MIDI clock; firmware 2.1.

Oberheim

• OB-X8 oberheim/ob_x8: 8 voices; answers to MPE; 3 modes; 147 controls; follows MIDI clock; firmware 2.0.
• TEO-5 oberheim/teo_5: 5 voices; 198 controls; sends and follows MIDI clock.

Polyend

• Tracker polyend/tracker: 8 voices; 2 modes; 80 controls; sends and follows MIDI clock; firmware 1.9.2.

PWM

• Malevolent pwm/malevolent: one voice.

Roland

• D-50 roland/d_50: 2 parts; controls the player assigns.
• FANTOM-6/7/8 roland/fantom_6_7_8: 16 parts; 33 controls; sends and follows MIDI clock; firmware 3.00.
• JD-08 roland/jd_08: 3 parts; 85 controls; sends and follows MIDI clock; firmware 1.03.
• JD-800 roland/jd_800: 6, 8, 12, or 24 voices; 6 parts; 19 controls.
• JD-XA roland/jd_xa: 9 parts; 178 controls; sends and follows MIDI clock; firmware 1.55.
• JD-Xi roland/jd_xi: 4 parts; 98 controls; sends and follows MIDI clock.
• JP-8000 roland/jp_8000: 1 or 8 voices; 3 parts; 50 controls; follows MIDI clock.
• JU-06A roland/ju_06a: 1 or 4 voices; 2 modes; 63 controls; sends and follows MIDI clock.
• JUNO-106 roland/juno_106: 6 voices; 2 controls.
• JUNO-X roland/juno_x: 5 parts; 59 controls; sends and follows MIDI clock; firmware 1.12.
• JUPITER-X roland/jupiter_x: 5 parts; 41 controls; sends and follows MIDI clock; firmware 3.0.
• JX-08 roland/jx_08: 3 parts; 49 controls; sends and follows MIDI clock; firmware 1.03.
• JX-8P roland/jx_8p: 1, 3, or 6 voices; 5 controls.
• MC-101 roland/mc_101: 5 parts; 28 controls; sends and follows MIDI clock; firmware 1.80.
• MC-707 roland/mc_707: 9 parts; 28 controls; sends and follows MIDI clock; firmware 1.80.
• P-6 roland/p_6: 4 parts; 40 controls; sends and follows MIDI clock; firmware 1.02.
• S-1 roland/s_1: 2 parts; 54 controls; sends and follows MIDI clock; firmware 1.02.
• SH-4d roland/sh_4d: 60 voices; 5 parts; 32 controls; sends and follows MIDI clock; firmware 2.00.
• SP-404MKII roland/sp_404mkii: 32 voices; 7 parts; 41 controls; sends and follows MIDI clock; firmware 5.50.
• TB-3 roland/tb_3: 15 controls; sends and follows MIDI clock; firmware 1.10.
• TR-08 roland/tr_08: 16 drums; 38 controls; sends and follows MIDI clock; firmware 1.08.
• TR-1000 roland/tr_1000: 11 drums; 66 controls; sends and follows MIDI clock; firmware 1.20.
• TR-6S roland/tr_6s: 6 drums; 34 controls; sends and follows MIDI clock; firmware 2.00.
• TR-707 roland/tr_707: 5 modes; no controls; sends and follows MIDI clock.
• TR-8 roland/tr_8: 11 drums; 50 controls; sends and follows MIDI clock; firmware 1.61.
• TR-8S roland/tr8s: 11 drums; 55 controls; sends and follows MIDI clock; firmware 3.00.
• TR-909 roland/tr_909: no controls; sends and follows MIDI clock.
• αJUNO-2 roland/alpha_juno_2: 6 voices; 5 controls.

Sequential

• Fourm sequential/fourm: 4 voices; 100 controls; sends and follows MIDI clock.
• Pro 3 sequential/pro_3: 1, 2, or 3 voices, paraphonic; 430 controls; sends and follows MIDI clock; firmware 1.2.
• Prophet X sequential/prophet_x: 8, 16, or 32 voices; 598 controls; sends and follows MIDI clock; firmware 2.2.2.0.0.
• Prophet-10 sequential/prophet_10: 10 voices; 85 controls; firmware 2.1.0.
• Prophet-5 sequential/prophet_5: 5 voices; 85 controls; firmware 2.1.0.
• Prophet-6 sequential/prophet_6: 6 voices; answers to MPE; 115 controls; sends and follows MIDI clock; firmware 1.6.7.
• Take 5 sequential/take_5: 5 voices; 170 controls; sends and follows MIDI clock; firmware 2.0.

Soma

• Pulsar-23 soma/pulsar_23: 1 control, and more the player assigns; follows MIDI clock.

Synthstrom Audible

• Deluge synthstrom_audible/deluge: answers to MPE; controls the player assigns; sends and follows MIDI clock; firmware 4.1.0.

Teenage engineering

• EP–133 K.O. II teenage_engineering/ep_133_ko_ii: 48 drums; 6 controls; sends and follows MIDI clock; firmware 2.5.
• OP-1 teenage_engineering/op_1: controls the player assigns; sends and follows MIDI clock; firmware #246.
• OP-1 field teenage_engineering/op_1_field: 12 parts; 52 controls; follows MIDI clock; firmware 1.7.0.
• OP-XY teenage_engineering/op_xy: 24 voices; 16 parts; 11 controls; sends and follows MIDI clock; firmware 1.1.15.
• OP-Z teenage_engineering/op_z: 16 parts; 53 controls; sends and follows MIDI clock; firmware 1.2.45.

UDO Audio

• Super 6 udo_audio/super_6: 6 or 12 voices; answers to MPE; 86 controls; sends and follows MIDI clock.

Vermona

• DRM1 MkIV vermona/drm1_mkiv: 10 drums; no controls.
• PERfourMER MKII vermona/perfourmer_mkii: 4 parts; 1 control; follows MIDI clock.

Voce

• ELECTRIC PIANO voce/electric_piano: 16 or 32 voices; 3 parts; 8 controls.

Waldorf

• Blofeld waldorf/blofeld: 25 voices; 16 parts; 120 controls, and more the player assigns; follows MIDI clock; firmware 1.25.
• Iridium waldorf/iridium: 16 voices; answers to MPE; 2 parts; 15 controls, and more the player assigns; follows MIDI clock; firmware 3.
• Iridium Core waldorf/iridium_core: 12 voices; answers to MPE; 2 parts; 15 controls, and more the player assigns; follows MIDI clock.
• Iridium MK2 waldorf/iridium_mk2: 16 voices; answers to MPE; 4 parts; 16 controls, and more the player assigns; follows MIDI clock; firmware 4.0.3.
• MicroWave waldorf/microwave: 8 voices; 2 modes; 10 controls, and more the player assigns; firmware 2.0.
• MicroWave II/XT/XTk waldorf/microwave_ii_xt_xtk: 10 voices; 2 modes; 198 controls, and more the player assigns; sends and follows MIDI clock; firmware 2.28.
• Protein waldorf/protein: 1 or 8 voices; answers to MPE; 5 modes; 6 controls, and more the player assigns; follows MIDI clock; firmware 1.02.
• Streichfett waldorf/streichfett: 2 parts; 19 controls; firmware 1.14.

Yamaha

• DX7 yamaha/dx7: 1 or 16 voices; 10 controls.
• MONTAGE6/7/8 yamaha/montage_6_7_8: 16 parts; 44 controls, and more the player assigns; sends and follows MIDI clock; firmware 3.51.
• reface CP yamaha/reface_cp: 18 controls; firmware 1.30.
• reface CS yamaha/reface_cs: 21 controls; sends and follows MIDI clock.
• reface DX yamaha/reface_dx: 29 controls; sends and follows MIDI clock; firmware 1.30.
• SEQTRAK yamaha/seqtrak: 12 parts; 105 controls; sends and follows MIDI clock; firmware 2.00.