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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How do I configure MIDI in Reaper

I have a keyboard (set to MIDI channel 1) plugged into the MIDI In on my M-Audio Profire 2626. I have added a track to my project and selected MIDI Input->Profire 2626 MIDI->All Channels as my input. ...
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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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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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How is MIDI used with a keyboard?

How is MIDI used with a keyboard? I have a roland d-20, and I've heard that it connects with MIDI through USB. But what exactly is MIDI? How does it differ from a microphone input?
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Why does Logic 8 lose the DAW controller mappings from my M-Audio Axiom 49 between sessions?

This is terribly frustrating. I spend 20 minutes setting up the controller surface mappings in Logic so that the Play key maps to the Play/Pause command in Logic, faders map to channels, and so on, ...
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Audio effect: loop on a keyboard key

Using Mac/Linux/Windows SOFTWARE with an attached MIDI keyboard: What's the simplest way to, on-demand in live performance, capture a 1-second recording from a microphone and then play it on a loop ...