Samba Whistle
I'm looking for a samba whistle and I heard that there was already one in the Drumset editor but couldn't find it. Does anyone know the pitch number for it?
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It's not part of the GM standard so it depends on where the soundfont maker decided to put it.
You find them on number 71 and 72.
For instrument #'s (or patches) in the GM 1 sound set, see:
https://www.midi.org/specifications-old/item/gm-level-1-sound-set
and scroll down to General MIDI Level 1 Percussion Key Map.
Again. this is for GM1 designations which allow for uniformity among "instruments", but not necessarily instrument "timbres".
So, for example, a saxophone from one soundset/soundfont may differ from another's sax in expressive aesthetics - like 'growl', 'sweet-sounding', 'sharpness of note attack', etc. - but the sound still must remain an acceptable representation of a saxophone sound in order to appropriate the GM 1 assigned patch number.
Non-GM soundfonts do not have such a constraint.
If you don't like the sound of #71 Short Whistle or #72 Long Whistle, you can try different soundfonts.