Alesis mmt 8?????

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I know this is prob. way out of date and low speed for most of you, but could someone tell me something about these. A friend of mine owns a pawn shop and has one, but I know nothing about them. Keep in mind that this will be my first attempt @ recording anything outside of using sound recorder on my computer. Would appreciate any wisdom or advice as far as these machhines are concerned. To include what else I will need to buy aside from the machine to make it all work. Thanks for your help
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thanks alot hasbeen

appreciate all your help, that is exactly what I was looking for.
 
I know this is old, but, does anyone know of a device to convert audio(like a mic) into midi? Because i see alot of these on ebay for cheap, and we use a synth, a drum machine, so if we could find a device that could, it would be great.
Chris
 
anugroove said:
I know this is old, but, does anyone know of a device to convert audio(like a mic) into midi? Because i see alot of these on ebay for cheap, and we use a synth, a drum machine, so if we could find a device that could, it would be great.
Chris
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Trying to say this as gently as possible: "Midi data is not audio data, and audio data is not midi data." For people new to midi, this is possibly the single most difficult concept hill to overcome. I honestly think it helps to repeat it over and over again at first, until it comes naturally.

So when you play a synth from a midi sequencer, the midi data is just a stream of info to the synth like "Middle C note on at this time, whith this velocity. Middle C note off at this time." The actual sound is generated by the synth's oscillators and such. All the midi data did was tell the synth what notes to play when.

That being the case, there is no device to convert a vocal track from a microphone into midi. You need to record your vocal mic as audio, and your midi data as midi data. There are some devices and computer-based recording programs that can record both, but realize that even within those devices and programs, midi data and audio data are kept separate.

An MMT-8 is an old and simple MIDI data recorder, editor, sequencer; that has no audio recording capabilities at all. It's just MIDI data. The data storage is all on internal nonvolatile memory, so if you want to archive and save sequences, you'll want to save them off to a computer. They are probably very inexpensive, and an MMT-8 was my very first sequencer. It's an excellent learning tool and can be quite handy for use as a small, portable sequence playback device.

The only real limitations on it are the quantization resolution is a bit low by today's standards, editing in the little window can become tedious, and the on board storage is limited.
 
ahhh yes. the mmt8. what a great little machine. used in conjunction with the alesis datadisk (http://www.harmony-central.com/Synth/Data/Alesis/Datadisk_SQ-1.html) and you've got state of the art, cutting edge stuff...circa 1995! but that's no reason not to buy it and get into midi that way.

think of midi as nothing more than a player piano roll (assuming you know what that is, of course!). on its own, the roll does nothing: it makes no sound. but put it into the piano and it "tells" the piano to play this note, at that time, at such a pitch, for such a duration. now, midi can get much more complicated, but that's basically all the mmt8 will do: it will "record" your key movements, and play them back either as played or quantized, edited, etc, to your heart's contentment.

good luck!

blake
 
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