Chapter 8. MIDI: Notes, Rhythms , and Physical Control If you're like most musicians , you think about sound as notes and rhythms rather than as frequency and time in seconds. You express music in sound but also in physical gestures like strumming a guitar, playing a keyboard, scratching a turntable, nudging a foot pedal, or tweaking a fader or knob. Using MIDI data, you can store and manipulate these musical gestures digitally, making it easy to record and edit performances and sound mixes .  | Essentials MIDINotes, Rhythms, and Physical Control To use MIDI, you'll first need to understand how MIDI devices and software communicate, then how to record, edit, and manipulate MIDI data: -
Learn when to use MIDI -
Make MIDI connections and configure your studio -
Understand MIDI's data structure and how different messages can be mapped to musical expression and control -
Record, edit, and manipulate MIDI performances to create a song -
Use MIDI to control your mix and your instrument parameters in real time Essential Terms -
Controller, receiver, sequencer -
In/out/thru -
RMC pickup, piezo sensors/drum triggers -
Channels, multitimbral -
MIDI data messages: note-on/off, velocity, aftertouch, control change, program change -
Advanced MIDI: Most Significant Byte/Least Significant Byte -
System messages: MIDI clock, MMC, MSC, MTC, SysEx -
Tap tempo, quantization -
Splits, step entry -
General MIDI (GM) Where to Start Try using an external keyboard to play a virtual instrument like SampleTank2 FREE, included on the DVD. Check out the data you've recorded using a MIDI monitoring tool, like MIDI-Ox for Windows and MIDI Monitor for Mac, also included on the DVD. | |
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