Talk:Reggae/@comment-178.7.151.179-20200331234802

The "Applause" track in this midi is actually another drum track that is set to regular sound bank instead of drum bank, just like the out of tune piano tracks that appear in lots of similar midis.

It _seems_ to me there's a reason lots of these old midis have these drum tracks that play with piano or another wrong sound: in all of these files the additional drum track lies on channel 16, with channels 13, 14, and 15 providing a stripped down instrumentation of channels 1-10. So what this looks like is this: the sound card that is supposed to play the file should either recognize channels 1-10 as "the song" and ignore any channel beyond 10; or it should alternatively use only channels 13-16 (16 being drum track) and ignore everything else. Maybe there were sound cards around that could not play more than 4 channels. Also it is notable that in each of these files channels 13-16 don't have any pan setting, and even the drum track 16 is simplified compared to track 10. I observed this whole pattern in many of these midis, however the reasons for this are only guesswork. I'd like to learn more about the actual sound cards of the time and their performance/limitations.