 The specification defines default translation rules to convert between MIDI 2.0 Channel Voice and MIDI 1.0 Channel Voice messages that use different data resolution, as well as map 256 MIDI 2.0 streams to 16 MIDI 1.0 streams.System Exclusive 8 messages use a new 8-bit data format, based on Universal System Exclusive messages.Mixed Data Set messages are intended to transfer large sets of data.