Instead of MIDI Channels, there were three-level address hierarchy of 63 Families consisting of 127 Instruments, each having 127 notes, resulting in up to 1,016,127 individual note addresses. Instruments in a Family could be assembled from different physical devices. This arrangement allowed fine per-note control of synthesis parameters, especially useful for non-standard scenarios such as MIDI wind controller or MIDI guitar controller.
Instead of MIDI Channels there were three-level address hierarchy of 63 Families consisting of 127 Instruments each having 127 notes resulting in up to 1016127 individual note addresses Instruments in a Family could be assembled from different physical devices This arrangement allowed fine per-note control of synthesis parameters especially useful for non-standard scenarios such as MIDI wind controller or MIDI guitar controller