Friday, September 17, 2010

Understanding the basics of MIDI




MIDI (Music Instrumental Digital Interface) is a common topic in electronic recording.  It encompasses how we communicate electronically through music. It is the communicable transference of musical and electronic components. Midi involves a chain of communication.  For example, if I have two keyboards, but I want the sound to project out of only one keyboard, I would make this happen through MIDI. First, I would have to send signal from one instrument to the other.  I would have to use an output/input connector cable to connect the output of keyboard one to send transmitted signal response through the input channel of keyboard two. The result  is that the sound of keyboard one is now projected  inside of keyboard two. MIDI makes this action possible.





Computers and a series of other instruments can also be incorporated the MIDI process. There is no limit to the number of components connected in the process. MIDI is often used in music studio recording. Many times you hear various sounds in song, which are not  music instruments or least not instruments that would present in a studio, but MIDI allowed it to be possible.  MIDI is a very large topic. Computers can respond to keyboards though MIDI. Each letter and symbol has a musical note value, so the computer and keyboard are allowed to communicate through MIDI. MIDI even includes converter boxes, video camera, vcr, dvd etc. MIDI communication is used in most daily electronic activity.

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