Midi-In

http://www.hexawe.net/mess/200.Drum.Machines/
https://heckscaper.com/resources/
https://archive.org/details/90ssamplecds
ftp://ftp.untergrund.net/users/sagamusix/samples/
http://www.nattvard.com/iix/database.php
https://battleofthebits.org/ [LOGIN REQUIRED]
http://vis.versilstudios.net/vsco-community.html
https://github.com/peastman/sso
https://singlecellsoftware.com/caustic [lots of useful stock samples included]

Midi-In

thanks to @neurodyne and this link for updated instructions

This works with the following versions of termsrv.dll

x64 - termsrv.dll - 6.3.9600.17095

Find	Replace
39813C0600000F849E310500	B80001000089813806000090
090085C07F078BD8	090085C090908BD8

Midi-In

Yamaha's XG (eXtended General MIDI) is a set of proprietary extensions to the GM MIDI protocol standard. Introduced in 1994, it sought to improve on GM's features, by defining more instruments, implementing audio processing effects, and other commands not available in GM-only synths.

It competed with another (incompatible) extension, the GS standard by Roland.

'[#[Synthesisers compatible with XG]
'[t[b2]!! BotB entries must only use S-YXG50 or a MU50!!!! anything else might support more features than either or just have different sounds and may therefore be illegal.'[/t]

Here's an partial list (excluding internal sound cards and non MU-series devices) of hardware units which explicitly support XG (indicated by the logo on the front panel):

• '[l[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaha_MU-series[Yamaha MU synths]

Midi-In

ffmpeg

Converting Audio into Different Formats / Sample Rates

Minimal example: transcode from MP3 to WMA:
ffmpeg -i input.mp3 output.wma

You can get the list of supported formats with:
ffmpeg -formats

Convert WAV to MP3, mix down to mono (use 1 audio channel), set bit rate to 64 kbps and sample rate to 22050 Hz: