{"id":13042,"date":"2001-12-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-12-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/?p=13042"},"modified":"2007-04-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-27T00:00:00","slug":"choose-patchlist-freemidi-instrument-list-of-finale","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/articles\/choose-patchlist-freemidi-instrument-list-of-finale\/","title":{"rendered":"Can I choose the patchlist from FreeMIDI in my Instrument list of Finale&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes and No&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Normally when you choose a voice to play within a piece of music, you must bring up the Instrument list which gives you many parameters&#8230;<br \/>STAFF NAME &#8211; INSTRUMENT &#8211; CHAN &#8211; PROG &#8211; GM<\/p>\n<p>when you first launch this window you will be in a General Midi mode where you will only be able to access GM sounds. 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