All About MIDI

MIDI Software

MIDI Software Foreword Using the MIDI protocol in the musical environment is essential. However, the fact of just having a computer does not give us the control to manage the MIDI port of our computer nor handling MIDI files. For this task, we must have MIDI software installed into our system that fit to our needs.... Read more

About MIDI dot com

The musical environment is a large and excitant area. Welcome! My first introduction to the world of music I barely remember my first guitar lessons. The changes we have suffered on the last years have been beneficial, especially for the world of music. New technologies are showing up day by day, giving us even more possibilities.... Read more

Home Recording Tips

When I was young I was constantly looking for nice info about home recording, tips to guide me in the road. Unfortunately, in that time (talking about ten years ago) the internet was young, and it was barely growing. So I will try to give you a small introduction about, I want to show you in this section. I guess that you as the reader are hoping to find the Holy Grail for your home recording studio. I can’t tell you will find every answer, but I will try to show you what I know.... Read more

Recording Studios

First step to fame: The recording studio Every musician is looking forward to improving on. The most important step in the life of the musical compositor is launching their first album. I remembered how my friends were always anxious to start our first recording in a professional recording studio. It wasn’t easy, as professional recording studios are expensive.... Read more

MIDI Guitars

The Guitar �The instrument of instruments� I have not heard a sound as beautiful that the one given by a guitar. It is warm and pleasant, the companion who accompanies either the lonely musician as well the musician of the masses. Personally, I consider the guitar as the instruments of instruments; other may disagree, while other would tell that the piano is the chosen one. We must remember that the guitar is the most popular musical instrument around.... Read more

MIDI keyboards

Before I begin explaining all about midi keyboards I am going to define what a piano keyboard is. A piano keyboard commonly known as the electronic piano is an electronic device designed to work as a piano would do. The difference with a real piano is the way how it produces sounds.... Read more

MIDI Virtual Instruments

MIDI and the sound card Have you ever heard a MIDI file? Depending of the quality of the sound card the sound varies. They are great sound cards in the market that can emulate the real sound of instruments, but not realistic ones. To make you prove how MIDI sounds I let you hear a MIDI file using the sound of your computer. ... Read more

MIDI Theory

The MIDI protocol, being one the most used among professionals of the musical environment, especially composers, have become very popular since the beginning of the new computation technologies nearly 10 years ago. Nowadays, it is widely used as a tool either in instruments, control and musical virtualization. If you are new in the musical environment, probably, you have heard about MIDI.... Read more

MIDI Sequencer software

Midi sequencer software is a computer application designed for musical notation playback and musical composition.... Read more

Music Notation Software

Music notation software is a computer program designed to create and print sheet music. General tradition in music, demands a complex system of musical notation known by all musicians in the world. Musical composition software reduces and makes easy the process music creation as it provides tools for writing and printing music. Basically, all musical notation software has a graphical interface as a score sheet in which you can write and listen what you are creating.... Read more

Foreword: Home recording studio setup - The Recording Room

We all musicians dream about recording our musical compositions. For this, they are hundreds of recording studios willing to provide their services. Nevertheless, not everyone can record on a commercial recording studio, most professional recording studios are expensive, and many times we do not feel comfortable going against time. The best way to avoid these inconveniences is by owning a home recording studio.... Read more

Timidity++

In the music world, we all expect a good sound coming out from a musical composition. When I was young on my earlier musician stages, I discovered the power of the computer as a tool for musical compositions. So at that time, I was creating frenetically many musical works. I was young, so I had a lot of free time.Despite my enthusiasm, I just was using the MIDI engine of the computer to appreciate my musical compositions. So, I started to search for a tool that allows me to convert the digital MIDI format to a WAVE format, so I may have a better sound. After days of looking for this software, I found Timidity.... Read more

Why buidling a home recording studio

While we are in our trip as musicians, no matter what kind of music we are playing, we just came to the point that we want something of our repertory recorded so we could show it to anyone without the need of playing. Moreover, a recording studio provides a new environment by adding cool effects and even new instruments like symphonic orchestras.... Read more

Introduction to MIDI

MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is a protocol used either to perform a direct connection between a MIDI instrument and the computer; this protocol is widely used by composers, musicians and performers as a tool. Also some instruments have the MIDI technology for playback capabilities.... Read more