Musical Instrument Digital Interface - an industry standard protocol allowing connectivity between different manufacturers' products, for direct control or later playback of devices.
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What does the term quantization refer to?
Many DAWs have the option to "quantize" a set of notes. What does it do?
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How does the MIDI data for polyphonic aftertouch differ from “normal” aftertouch?
From what I understand, aftertouch in MIDI is a parameter (like a continuous controller) that a synthesizer can respond to. I have heard that some keyboards can send polyphonic aftertouch data, where ...
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How can I manually emulate the sonic abilities of the NES?
I am interested in recreating chiptunes in a NES (8 bit) style
A google search has shown that the original NES had 2 pulsewave, a triangle, noise, some sort of sampling channel and that emulations of ...
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Eliminating recording latency — what hardware and settings are needed?
I am very new to this field, so please bear with me.
When recording MIDI, there are several kinds of annoying delays. I would like to know what can I do to reduce/eliminate this by changing ...
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Using an Electronic Drum Kit as a MIDI controller
I am trying to set up my Roland TD9KX2 for use as a MIDI controller with Superior Drummer 2.0 to do some recording. As I understand it, I need a DAW (thinking of trying REAPER). What cable do I need ...
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MIDI SysEx utility?
I've been using SysEx Librarian for...well, a long time now. It's functional but it's far from friendly and feature reach. Most notably: it's failed to keep up with the massive increase in transmit ...
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Adjusting MIDI latency in Ableton Live
When I record MIDI tracks in Ableton Live, is there any way to adjust it so the MIDI notes I record are automatically shifted to their correct positions, correcting for the lag time on my MIDI ...
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How to Change Pitch Bend in MIDI?
I use Kontakt 4 to play a guitar on my keyboard on my song. So, naturally I use MIDI. I've recorded the whole song a couple of times and it's perfect except for one movement with the pitchbend knob on ...
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Can MIDI Designer control other iPad apps?
I installed MIDI Designer on my iPad, but I can't find any way to configure it to control another iPad app, such as Animoog or Samplewiz. Is that possible?
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What is the most effective way to reverse engineer SysEx format for my old Yamaha CS1x
I have recently put my old Yamaha CS1x back into service and realised that the world has moved on when it comes to the software support for this blue beast.
So I was thinking of writing a software ...
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Keyboard in a musical pit band
I'm preparing the keyboard part for a local amateur musical and I'd like it to make use of a number of sounds.
The keyboard that's probably going to be used is one of the standard consumer MIDI ...
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How do I sync a Mac and Windows laptop running Ableton Live?
A friend of mine and I want to jam together on our laptops using Live. I've got a Mac, and he's got a PC running Windows 7. Using MIDI to sync the two laptops is very unreliable; even with Live 8, ...
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Looking for a MIDI note re-mapper VST.
I write drum tracks in Guitar Pro using standard General Midi note numbers (#35/#36 kick, #38/#40 snare, etc.), then use MIDI-Yoke (a virtual MIDI port) to redirect the notes to VSTHost (a tiny ...
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How to connect two (2) MIDI devices to an Audio Interface with only one (1) MIDI In port?
I have one large keyboard (Roland KR-370 [MIDI IN/OUT]) and a small one with pitch/mod wheel (microKorg [MIDI IN/OUT/THRU) and I'm trying to connect them to my Audio Interface (MOTU Traveler [MIDI ...
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Pro Tools MIDI setup
I would like to get set up to record MIDI through Pro Tools. I'm hoping I can just connect my MIDI devices to a MIDI interface like this:
then run it through USB to the Mac, and then be able to ...
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Which music sw should I consider for aligning audio waveforms to MIDI piano roll, looping MIDI, managing program change, SysEx?
Which music software should I consider for aligning audio waveforms to MIDI piano roll, looping MIDI, managing program change, SysEx?
In my projects, I'd like to be able to:
see audio and MIDI ...
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Is there a wifi MIDI controller keyboard?
I own a M-Audio Axiom which I plug into my MacBook Pro to use MainStage (part of Logic Studio). Recently I bought an iPad and downloaded some "controller apps". What most surprised my is that those ...
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Which software sequencers are good for live performances?
I'm looking for software sequencer that is designed to be helpful in live performances. Almost every software sequencers I know is rather a MIDI note-sheet editor, which forces it's users to use it ...
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Mapping Mod and Pitch bend controls to a knob in Ableton?
I'm in between full sized MIDI keyboards at the moment and picked up an Akai MPK Mini to use for the time being and as a travel controller. I love it but it's missing the mod and pitch wheels that ...
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Low-cost WEARABLE midi motion sensors
I'm interested in beginning performance in which the movements of my body generates MIDI to control a synthesizer.
It appears that most "motion capture" MIDI devices are very specialized and ...
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How to sync playback control of Record and Reaper, without ReWire?
Is there a way to transmit the "play/stop/record/loop" commands to both DAWs so that they play in sync?
Because of Record's lack of MIDI-Out support AND not being able to take incoming audio from ...
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looking for software for converting audio -> midi
I'd like to study grooves/midi notation from some old songs - any recommendations for audio to midi software?
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Exporting multiple tracks to MIDI in Ableton Live
I want to export my multi-track compositions in Ableton to MIDI to make them usable in Sibelius and to make them less susceptible to "ageing out" (what with proprietary project formats and all that ...
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Is it possible to connect an Alesis DM6 to Reason and track drums?
I'm brand new to audio production as of this week and I could do with a hand! I know that the basic answer is 'yes' but I want to know how specifically I can make the connection, the only connection I ...
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What is the best drums midi recorder?
I have a Roland TD4 KX2 drum set and I would like to start doing some recordings of what I do.
What is the best option in terms of software to use?
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How can I automate/loop signature changes in Ableton?
I'm trying to make a loop which has one bar of 7/8 and one bar of 4/4, but I don't want to have to manually do that (ie right-clicking the Arrangement View and changing sig) to several minutes' worth ...
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Does Logic 9 solve the lost MIDI mapping problems that were present in Logic 8?
This is a follow up to this question I asked months ago. My MIDI mappings are still being lost even if I keep the Axiom turned on between sessions in Logic and it's maddening. It's a lot of work to ...
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Emulating spoken and rap vocals in MIDI
I'm pretty sure that what I'm trying to do is impossible but I figured I'd try anyway. I'm making a MIDI file using tuxguitar I'll later export into Logic for refining, and there's rap/spoken vocals ...
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MIDI interface which is compatible with 2010 macbook pro
I am looking for a MIDI interface for my 2010 macbook pro. I currently have a MAudio midisport 4x4 which has always served me well but it is USB powered and it seems that the macbook pro does not put ...
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Cubase and randomizing midi
I use a lot of VST's and midi. The problem is, my midi program (Guitar Pro) exports midi as it's written, all at the same constant volume and in 'perfect' time.
When I run a VST through, it's ...
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Cubase, midi device and Latency
I hope someone can clear something up for me because internet research doesn't cover this exact question.
I am currently running Cubase with a midi keyboard (Akai MPK49) connected via USB. If I was ...
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Which software for adding triggers to an acoustic drum kit to make it into a USB drum kit?
I would like to turn an acoustic drum kit into a digital one, played through a PC. While the drum kit is being played on it would be good, to hear the drum kit act as a sequencer and here the samples ...
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MIDI/OSC: Control Surface status
I'm new to MIDI and OSC, and I'm just wondering if it's possible to have software on a PC send data to a control surface rather than the other way around.
Why?
Here's a simple example: Let's say I ...
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How do I tell OS X that an arbitrary controller is a MIDI device?
I own a Novation Twitch, and Novation has released a "MIDI Programming guide". Tonight, I've been working on some Quartz Composer based visualizations, and naturally I wanted to add a component of ...
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How do I map a second MIDI controller to act as a “reset” button in Ableton Live?
I am in the process of creating an experimental liveset where I manipulate the pitch of the loops in realtime. I have mapped a knob on a MIDI controller to change the pitch of the sound, which is ...
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Akai APC20/40 MIDI Control
The AKAI APC20 is a MIDI controller, which has controls that light up on it. The lights correspond to the status of a clip in Ableton, but is there any way to change these lights by issuing MIDI ...
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Midi Keyboard connected but no sound
I recently installed Reaper and have bought an Roland Um-One Midi cable to connect my Nord to the program.
I've installed the drivers, and now upon entering Reaper I've found that my midi keyboard ...
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Replace-recording for MIDI in Logic Pro
I'd like to be able to do the following:
Set recording quantization to 1/8
Loop an 8-beat region
Keep replace-recording until I like the tune
This breaks my creative flow.
I've tried every ...
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Creating MIDI Files - Explanation of time division in header chunk
Hi, I was told not to post this on the main stackoverflow site because it doesn't relate directly to programming, but rather the structure of MIDI files:
I've been reading about MIDI file structure ...
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How to sync midi to audio - Logic 8
I've annotated an audio file with the beat locations. Now I want to create a midi file that is synced with the audio.
The annotation is in xml format, but I can easily turn it into a csv or other ...
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Are there any keyboard shortcuts for efficient MIDI (piano roll) editing in Adobe Audition 3?
I'm aware Audition CS 5.5 is on its way, but this question is about version 3.
It seems such a hassle to switch between the "select" and "draw" tools in the Audition 3 sequencer. There's no hybrid ...
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MIDI CC Button Settings on a Behringer BCR2000
I have a Behringer BCR2000 which has customizable midi cc buttons along the top just like the BCF2000. I was wondering if I could press button 1 and set midi cc #90 (or whatever number) to 0, then ...
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How to connect Alesis MMT-8 to Roland TR-909
I want to connect Alesis MMT-8 to Roland TR-909 via MIDI. Carefully studying the manuals, I try to record what is pressed on the TR-909 by recording with the MMT8 and pressing instrument keys on the ...
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USB-MIDI controller freezes when used with live-drawing software “Tagtool”
I do live drawing performances with the "Tagtool"-software (the old skool version: http://www.tagtool.org/wp/). It is a piece of software that allows you to draw using a drawing tablet and an ...
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How can I get more sounds for my Roland D20?
The synthesizer has an old floppy disc drive and a MIDI input, but I don't know how to use it with my brother's Mac.
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Does the MIDI protocol make it possible to specify pitches for specific tones?
I want to write a MIDI processor on the computer that "detunes" specific tones and leaves the others intact. But up to now I only found the pitch wheel MIDI message to go into this direction.
However, ...
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Is there software to capture and view raw MIDI data coming from a controller?
This is partially out of curiosity, and partly, potentially, useful.
The gist of what I'm looking for is an application (preferably OSX, though it wouldn't be a deal breaker to be Windows or *nix, ...
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Sustain pedal in a MIDI file
I recorded a piece with my keyboard (a Yamaha YPG-535). When I play it back on the keyboard, it sounded great. I put it on a flash drive in MIDI format and plugged it into my computer (Windows 7). I ...
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How does sending MIDI over USB compare to using a dedicated MIDI interface?
Is there an informed comparison between sending MIDI over USB versus directly from a MIDI interface on a PC expansion card - would a MIDI interface on a sound card provide some useful system ...
