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MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) plays a crucial role in today's music production. Thus it is vital if you are an aspiring music producer that you get a understanding of midi description and its functions. It helps use mix music and makes it possible for one person to make the music of a whole band or orchestra.
First, here is a description of a pc midi interface functions and advantages:
Hopefully, this article will help start you on your way to music sequencing and electronic music in general. While most modern sequencers support both MIDI sequencing as well as Digital Audio recording, this article will focus only on MIDI.
First, we'll start off with some of the basic terms used in MIDI sequencing. While this is not a comprehensive glossary, it should be enough to get you started, and make you feel more comfortable in your sequencing environment.
Controller (MIDI Controller): A MIDI Controller is a device (usually a keyboard) that you play on to generate MIDI information, while many keyboards provide both the controller and sound source, it is not necessary for these to be contained in the same device.
Controller (Controller Data): This is a type of MIDI event generally used to indicate the position of a knob or slider. These can control volume, pan, pitch bend, effect levels, or other settings available on the MIDI device.
Event (MIDI Event): This is anything that is sent through MIDI. These include notes, controllers, pedals, or anything else that can be transmitted through MIDI.
Gargantuan in spirit, triumphant in turn, explosive in its delivery and commercial in its nature, 'Wings' took over the world in the mid seventies. With the era defining behemoth 'Band On The Run' still hungrily devouring the charts, Paul McCartney was armed with guitarist Jimmy McCulloch in toe, giving Wings Mark II their live zenith.
With sure blown confidence, McCartney turned to New Orleans as the new location in which to record Wings' fourth album (the album featured two drummers, the first Geoff Britton played on three songs, before Joe English took to the drumsticks and played on the remainder of the record. McCartney liked the anglophile surnames alright- funnily enough, English was American!). Wings released their fourth album 'Venus and Mars' in 1975. A fine collection of seventies rock songs, it brought Wings forward as one of the seventies greats.
Hear classic Windows midis reborn as amazing rock songs.
Read the full story: http://www.pcgamer.com/hear-classic-windows-midis-reborn-as-amazing-rock-songs/
Copyright holders, along with YouTube (to use a well-known example), have, within the last few years, been cracking down on people using copyrighted music without permission. Tributes & covers of songs, of course, have been somewhat "riding the fence" of legality, where the artists gives their due credit to the composer/lyricist in question and provides a disclaimer in their video description that says "this is not my work, I do not own the rights to this music," and they generally get left alone, more or less.
MIDI files - correctly referred to as Standard MIDI Files ("SMF" or *.mid files) are a popular source of music on the web, and for musicians performing in clubs who need a little extra accompaniment. The files contain all the MIDI instructions for notes, volumes, sounds, and even effects. The files are loaded into some form of 'player' (software or hardware), and the final sound is then produced by a sound-engine that is connected to or that forms part of the player.*
This video is a introductory demonstration of how to make MIDI files using free software called Anvil Studio.
* Source: MIDI.Org - About MIDI Files.
