Here's a box diagram for a simple example, a smus with two instruments and two tracks. Each track contains 1 note event and 1 rest event. +-----------------------+ | | | 'FORM' 94 | FORM 94 SMUS | | -- +-----------------------+ | | | | | 'SMUS' | | | | | | +-----------------+ | | | | 'SHDR' 4 | | .SHDR 4 | | |-----------------| | | | | 12800, 127, 2 | | | | +-----------------+ | | | | | | +-----------------+ | | | | 'NAME' 10 | | .NAME 10 | | |-----------------| | | | | 'Fugue in C' | | | | +-----------------+ | | | | | | +-----------------+ | | | | 'INS1' 9 | | .INS1 9 | | |-----------------| | | | | 1, 0, 0, 0, | | | | | 'Piano' | | 94 < | +-----------------+ | bytes | | 0 | | | +-----------------+ | | | | 'INS1' 10 | | .INS1 10 | | |-----------------| | | | | 2, 0, 0, 0, | | | | | 'Guitar' | | | | +-----------------+ | | | | | | +-----------------+ | | | | 'TRAK' 4 | | .TRAK 4 | | |-----------------| | | | | 60, 16, 128, 16 | | | | +-----------------+ | | | | | | +-----------------+ | | | | 'TRAK' 4 | | .TRAK 4 | | |-----------------| | | | | 128, 16, 60, 16 | | | | +-----------------+ | | | | -- +-----------------------+ The "0" after the first INS1 chunk is a pad byte.