Hot answers tagged midi
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Quantization aligns (or "snaps") the MIDI data (usually musical notes) to the tempo (or subdivisions, thereof) of the composition. You can think of it as an automatic "clean-up" for MIDI data that was close to exact, but not quite exact.
It will often have configurable options, such as quantize to 1/4 notes, 1/8 notes, 1/16 notes, etc... (subdivisions of ...
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Aftertouch and polyphonic aftertouch are two different event types in the MIDI standard:
1010nnnn 0kkkkkkk 0vvvvvvv Polyphonic Key Pressure (Aftertouch). This
message is most often sent by pressing down on the
key after it "bottoms out". (kkkkkkk) is the key
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Have a read of this short Introduction to MIDI PDF from Roland. This will give you an overview of what MIDI is and what it can be used for. Then you might be in a better position to tell us what topics you are interested in exploring further.
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Assuming you recorded your MIDI into MIDI clips (and weren't recording just the audio out from Kontakt), there certainly is!
Pitchbend messages are stored in clip envelopes, similar to other MIDI CC messages. Open your MIDI clip in clip view at the bottom, and click on the "e" in the lower left corner to bring up the Envelopes box. In the choosers there, ...
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To send the MIDI messages from the drum kit to the computer you will need a MIDI interface. Also, since for playing drums live you want very low latency (sub 10ms), you will need a reasonably good audio interface (most soundcards intended for recording will come with ASIO drivers that allow working at low latencies).
The Avid mbox would be fine since it ...
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You could try Ableton Live. I have heard of many people using it for live performances. It can play back MIDI and recorded audio, does looping and many other things, so it should meet your needs.
If you are on a budget, you could try Reaper.
Both programs have a free trial, so you can try them both and see which better fits your needs and style.
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The CME UF-series keyboards support a built-in MIDI-over-wireless system.
My first guess was the Rockband wireless keyboard. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear to transmit MIDI data over its bluetooth connection.
If you are up for a DIY project, here are some instructions on building a wireless MIDI link using XBee radios. Should be able to fit inside the ...
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The easiest solution would be to just use apple's say text-to-speech program. Try $ say hello on the command line.
Any sound can be broken down into a series of sine waves. The easy way to do that is via the Fourier Transformation. Then you can re-synthesizer with an inverse-fourier tranformation, which essentially means playing back the sine waves with the ...
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This isn't specific to Logic or MIDI, but I like to have all of the different drum sounds on different tracks so that they can be processed independently. This isn't a necessity unless the sound you want is based on having this separation (for example, some electronic music where you might want to put a special effect on the hihats but not the kick and ...
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An Arduino is a great choice if you want to dabble in a little DIY MIDI. I've got a Mega here that I'm building a foot controller around for some outboard MIDI gear. There are plenty of libraries out there already for sending MIDI CC and PC messages from Arduino. And there are some USB shield modules already that make it easy to interface with your PC.
One ...
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You can get more sounds either by purchasing disks made specifically for the D-20 or you can get MIDI (.mid) or Sysex (.syx) files to send to your keyboard from your computer via MIDI. You can get a copy of the owners manual here. See chapter 5 of the owners manual volume 2 for instructions on how to transfer/receive data via MIDI.
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Here are all the places I know of between pressing a key and hearing the sound where latency is likely to be introduced:
Your MIDI interface: This might be built into your keyboard or it might be another device with a female DIN jack on it. Some of these are less latent than others, but the variation is usually pretty small. However, a lot of these work ...
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Note: I am the author of MIDI Designer. Also: at the time this question was asked, MIDI Designer did not present its own virtual MIDI ports. That feature has been added.
MIDI Designer can control other apps, even if the other apps do not present a Virtual MIDI Port. In addition, MIDI Designer allows you to selectively activate/deactivate virtual MIDI ...
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There is a MIDI spec for sending MIDI Tuning Messages, but not all synthesizers support it.
Some specific synths that have good support for alternative tunings:
The Access Virus has a sophisticated predictive system called Pure Tuning (seems to have been around since the Virus C, also present in the more recent TI series)
Korg is generally very good ...
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Unfortunately your theory of how the human voice is made up is not accurate enough to make this possible - you just can't get the detail.
However, there are a wide range of examples of partial emulation of vocal tones, using combinations of effects and notes - see Steve Vai's guitar at the start of California Girls or Greasy Kid's Stuff for a couple. He ...
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What you need is a sequencer that can also handle audio data, or an audio suite that also handles sequencing. Collectively, these programs are known as Digital Audio Workstations, commonly abbreviated DAWs. While the term "DAW" technically refers only to audio editing (waveforms), it's very common for a DAW to also support MIDI sequencing, or to be more of a ...
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Note that SyxEx data is, by its very nature, vendor specific. Supporting detailed SysEx editing would require custom work for each MIDI synth ever made. EMagic's Sounddriver did this, but was discontinued shortly after Apple bought EMagic.
You can accomplish a lot of MIDI and SysEx manipulation with Logic's environment, though it is awkward, poorly ...
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Try rtpMIDI from Tobais Erichsen to add a MIDI interface on your PC compatible with the OS X network MIDI interface.
MIDI sync should work just fine. My guess is that if it isn't, your external MIDI interface is dropping some messages (maybe due to a full buffer?), and you are losing some timing clock messages. I've seen this happen with many MIDI ...
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There's a very good chance that you can do this with dummy clips.
Dummy clips are simple automations that set parameters via the Clip Envelope automation area. You can then trigger these clips via a midi trigger and they will reset the parameters for you.
The only issue with them is that you will struggle to use them on the same track as your audio clip, ...
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That particular one will work, no problem, per http://www.motu.com/techsupport/technotes/can-i-use-motu-hardware-in-pro-tools-software
I recommend that unit as well. I've used many, and they have never let me down.
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The way I did this was to assign a cc 11 to each volume slider in the multi (the default midi assignment is cc 7).
To do that, you open the browse pane in Kontakt, go to the Auto tab, then choose the Midi automation tab.
Now drag cc 11 onto each instruments volume slider.
If each instrument is on its own midi channel then its volume slider will respond ...
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Assuming that you have a modern processor and a decent amount of RAM, the weak link in the chain is likely to be your built-in sound chip, or the sound chip drivers, or a combination of both.
Again assuming that you're playing to a click, the reason that the MIDI appears to be late, is that the click is reaching your ears late, because of the excessive ...
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Well, that was fun!
It's actually a pretty complex piece of synthesizer work--the link ObscureRobot posted in the comments sheds some light on this.
Since the music isn't exactly metered, I didn't bother to attempt to quantify that in transcription (I didn't bother to typeset it either, that would've been more trouble than it's worth). So, I used spatial ...
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I've never tried it but Yamaha's Vocaloid technology was developed for this purpose. I think it's more designed for robots and anime characters, but maybe with the right processing in Logic it could work for what you need.
Check out http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocaloid for more info.
If you try this please report back results, I'd be curious to know how ...
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According to the manual, your YPG-535 uses the standard controller - CC# 64 - for the sustain pedal. It is possible that Windows Media Player ignores controller data and just plays the notes. You will need to examine the MIDI File in an editor or DAW that will show you controller values as well as notes. If you see CC 64 set to ON when you played the ...
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Latency is due to the audio driver for the audio card. Cubase uses ASIO-drivers (an invention by Steinberg themselves) which mean they are optimized for the sound card if the manufacturer of the sound card makes ASIO-drivers available.
For sound cards that doesn't support ASIO there are workarounds such as DirectX ASIO (built-in in Cubase IIRC) and Asio4All ...
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There are few dedicated options available in Cubase for that purpose (there might be more).
1. The Random Quantize setting
This setting affects the result of the quantizing. It allows you to set a “distance” in ticks (120ths of sixteenth notes). Events will be quantized to random positions within the specified “distance” from the quantize grid, thus ...
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I know of no way to do this using stock Ableton Live while a project is running. However, I believe that Live sends out the positions of those controls when you first open a project, so if you can close and re-open the project, I think you can get the values where you want them.
It's a workaround rather than a proper solution, but short of some kind of ...
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Posting information about the current status of Triggering, Midi, Positional Sensing, and Drum Modules in 2013.
A commercial drum "brain" module does a few things:
Plays the drum sample so you can hear it
Converts the input trigger voltage to a MIDI note
Detects how hard the drum/cymbal was hit (velocity)
Detects where the drum/cymbal was hit. The common ...
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If you don't care about the sound the acoustic drums are making while you trigger samples on the PC, then consider using the drum kit from the Rock Band video game instead: How to use Rock Band Drum Set as MIDI Drums.
Buying a used Rock Band drum kit might end up being more cost effective than getting the triggers and a MIDI controller for your acoustic ...
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