Mar 24, 2006 06:54 pm Welcome to the dark side...
There is no turning back...
The fear has gone (confessions of a MIDI-phobic)
Posted on Mar 24, 2006 06:52 pm
TallChap
Answer:On a good day, lipstick.
Member Since: Jun 24, 2004
Well...I've been so afraid/confused of the whole MIDI things for so long now. Just wasn't getting it, you know? I'd been playing around with an old song in my studio (to be posted soon....it' SOOOOO Pink Floyd...almost criminally so), and needed some keyboards on there..just a pad. Anyway, I usually would have linked up the audio from my synth, and found a pad that was ok. This time, I actually loaded a VSTI (Crazy Diamond...go figure), and recorded to MIDI. WOOOOOHOOOO!!!! And no CPU load!
Still haven't done the whole drum thing yet (still not completely cured!), but it's in the future.
MIDI is my friend.
MIDI is my friend....
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Mar 24, 2006 06:54 pm Welcome to the dark side...
There is no turning back...
Mar 24, 2006 06:56 pm Ya know, about 15 years ago I was jamming with a bunch of metal heads that would hear nothing of computer-sequenced music, they harrassed me something fierce when they came to my place one day and I had just purchased a Roland MC50 Sequencer (state of the art back then), JX-1 synth and a U220 sound module...I was sitting there all buzzed up for like 3 months straight programming and listening...it totally changed the course of the way I looked at audio production and songwriting completely...while I am even now not the MIDI geek that some people are, I don't know what I would be doing musically (not that I am doing much any more) had I not bucked my social system and got that gear back then.
Mar 24, 2006 07:04 pm I wrote either at the piano or just straight to manuscript until MIDI. I love MIDI, it allows me alot of freedom to try different things. Strange things. Now with Acid, I'm getting new ideas again, and I really like that feeling...
Mar 24, 2006 07:17 pm Yeah, you can make music without having to have a full band or being able to actually play the instruments you hear in your head...it's a beautiful thing.
Mar 24, 2006 07:24 pm Drums! I can't afford drums and I don't have time to learn how to play them and drummers are always hitting on my wife! MIDI is the only way I'm getting drums into my music... and a whole lot of other stuff like big orchestras and weird pads and effects... MIDI is wonderful... it's freedom!
Mar 24, 2006 07:28 pm I just bought a MIDISport a couple of days ago so I'm joining ya'll in the world of MIDI. Yahooo!!!
Mar 24, 2006 10:50 pm I'm right there with you! Just about a month or so ago I bought Sonor home studio 4 and BFD for drums. I had no idea what I was doing but I told myself I was going to learn or it was going to be an expensive mistake. Things worked out and its been a good investment. Good luck to you!
Mar 26, 2006 01:17 pm i dont understand MIDI too much in sonar 3 but i play around with fruity loops 4 sometimes. i only use it to make some crazy effects though. i play drums, guitar, bass, u name it but nobody can play the WOOSH and PING... lol effects that u cant physicly play are awesome! i wanna figure out the MIDI thing on sonar though... i need some MIDI cables cuz my sis just got a synth :D
Mar 26, 2006 09:30 pm TallChap, glad to hear you have taken midi into your life. Thankfully I was there from the very begining and embraced it from the very start. But then again I was a synth freak. Midi was hell in the begining though as most synths didnt like to talk or play nice with one another. But eventually thanx to Roland a midi standard came to be.
I have been using it to automate everything in my studio that had midi i/o. Not just synths, but processors and anything that could accept midi input.
These days as stated above with all the VSTi's and DXi's and all the DSP pluggins can be run using midi as well. although now most pluggins can be automated in Sonar or Porject 5 directly without using midi, but I still have some outboard gear and synths I use and wouldnt get half the use out of them without midi.
In the days when I performed live, midi was the saving grace of many shows. It allowed you to do things live that could only have been done in the studio before. My live rig grew from 3 synths in the beggining to 14 in the end. And they were all connected via midi. Midi is still a huge part of everything I do here. I would be completely lost without it.
Mar 27, 2006 10:29 am Processors.....HEY!!!! Good one Noize! I have a few that might enjoy those little MIDI cables! Fun, fun, fun!
I know there's a learning curve here, and there's a lot to learn, but I'm really having fun with it. There are so many softsynths out there (many of them free!!!) that do many more things than my aged Roland D-10. With MIDI, I have a whole bank of sounds at my fingertips. I can't believe that I used to plug in the D-10 via audio cables, and then spend hours beating myself up for not being a keyboard player. Now I can edit my flubs, and write a score to boot. I love it. I have embraced MIDI...
MIDI Drum programming......hmmmmm.....there's the next obstacle.
Mar 27, 2006 10:55 am I read about some new midi controllers that are connected directly via USB port, without the need of a midi adaptor. Is this as simple as it sounds?
Mar 27, 2006 02:09 pm plug and play my friend, plug and play
Mar 27, 2006 02:20 pm Yes, the M-Audio MIDI Sport UNO was detected by Windoze, no problem. I've only had it for a couple of weeks now but so far so good.
Mar 27, 2006 02:22 pm My Radium 49 just plugs right in to the USB, no fuss, no muss...easy as that.
Mar 27, 2006 07:44 pm TallChap, all you need is the midi implamentation page from the manual and your good to go. simply assign a control to whatever control number the parameter needs in your processor and away you go. If you get stuck just give a yell here.
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