The files in this directory determine the Bank and Program names that will show up on MIDI channel outputs. The default is the General MIDI Bank and General MIDI Program names, but you can easily set it to show your own Bank and Program names, no matter what sound card, synth, or soft synth you are using.
To customize Bank and Program names to your own setup, simply create a text file that has one Program name per line, for up to the maximum of 128 Program names. Give this file the Bank name you want to see. In the default setup, there is only one Program name file, named "GenMIDI.txt" but you can have several, one per bank, up to 128.
Then, edit the file, "Banks.txt" to put in the file names of the individual banks of Program names, again one per line. The default Banks.txt has only one file name, GenMIDI.txt. Remember these are file names, so they must appear exactly as the file names.
Upon startup, the file Banks.txt is read, and for each filename in it, it reads the Program names listed in that file. The first file in the first line of Banks.txt becomes the first Bank (Bank 0), the second becomes the next bank (Bank 1), and so on. These files must exist in the top level of the Names directory, any files in sub directories are not read.
To see how a much larger setup might be created, see the files in the sub directory, "EmuSoundFonts." These are from the sound font libraries available from:
http://www.soundfont.com/
If you are using an Emu/Creative Labs sound cared, you can easily get the names of the sounds to a text file with Vienna Studio, by printing to a text file. You get a lot of stuff you don't need so you have to edit the .prn file produced, but it is easier than typing in all the names - this is how the files in the EmuSoundFonts directory were created.
