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[scrooooge]

hi everybody, i'm just new to this site and i want to set up my own home recording studio and i need to know the piece of equipment that connects all instruments and mics through midi. because i want to plug my guitar, keyboard and mics all into the same place. if thithe best s isn't possible then could someone plz tell me how to make this possible. and also could anyone tell me what the equipmentt is called and what one should i buy.

thanking u in advance, scrooooge

[AlChuck]

There os no such piece of equipmetn, it's not possible. You are thinking that MIDI can carry audio data. It cannot, it's strictly a means of communicating with devices and issuing them commands -- play this note, play it this loud, for that long, etc. A MIDI synth responds to these message by playing a sound, but the sound itself has no existence in the messages themselves.

You need something that you can plug microphones into, and something you can plug instrument level (guitar and bass) and line level (the audio output of keyboards & drum machines, direct output from amps & effects boxes) signals into, and get them into a computer. You also need a MIDI interface. The closest thing to an all-in-one tool like this is something like the Echo Mona or Aardvark DirectPro or M-Audio Delta OmniStudio or 1010LT.

[NewbMediaGuy]

I found this article to be very helpful as far as understanding MIDI, I still don't understand a lot of it's uses, but now I kinda get the main basics of how MIDI works.