what the h*ll is midi?

[ingobert]

what the h*ll is midi?

[Ronny]

Musical Instrument Digital Interface or midi is as explained on your last post.

How do people use them?

Some just collect them and play them on their pc.
Some use them for home karaoke.
Some use programmes such as cubase to edit them and create their own tunes for fun.
Some, like me, use them as backing tracks for live performances. I take the guitar out which my partner then plays and take out the piano or perhaps strings which I then play. This is ideal for pubs who don't want or don't have them room for a four piece band. I sawa four piece band recently, (two guitars, bass and drums) who used a backing track of keyboards to lift their whole sound.

Summer of 69 is never them same unless there is some rock organ in there.

A lot of midis sound pretty crap but with patience and a good ear for music even the worst midi can be made presentable.

Hope that all helps.

Ronny.
:thumbsup:

[dstruct2k]

then there are others (like me) that wish to get a large collection of midis to open up a site to compliment a place like this

[rdprod]

With midi, someone plays the notes on a midi instrument, usually a piano on up to 16 tracks. The bass is primarily on track 1, and the drums on track 10. They then make a file of it that can be read on a computer with a midi player, or, best of all a sequencer. You can then edit the tracks to sound the way you want them to. What plays on your computer usually sounds pretty cheesy. With a sequencer, you can choose the bass guitar, pianos, organs, horns, drum sets, etc. that you like, take out tracks you don't want there, and make it sound however you want. I use a Roland XP-50 for live performance. They no longer make these, but Roland makes newer XP's that work the same way. You can put the floppy disc in with your midi files on it, scroll through the titles in the read-out window and choose to edit or play. You can also use your sequencer as just a tone generator and hook a computer to it. You will need to use a sequencing software such as Cakewalk for PC's or Digital Performer for Mac. (I use this with my XP-50) This way you won't have to deal with the floppy drive. You can download all your midi files to your computer, edit through the software, (you can actually see all the notes on the screen this way, so it's much easier to edit out bloopers, put in extra verses or leads, etc.) also set up set lists for live performance, chain songs together so there isn't alot of space between songs. It's really cool. I've worked with midi in my live performace for 8 years now. It has spoiled me in some ways. It has also made me a better player. With the right tone generators and instrument selection, people can't believe there isn't a huge band up there!

[theARTiSAN]

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[lostdave]

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[The Keeper]

I won't add anything, there's nothing here