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madcat
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Hello-
I know the concept of midi is easy to understand, but I think it's one of those things that when you get it- you really GET IT. I'm not there, but I wanted to ask if I was thinking about it correctly- feel free to tell me where I'm wrong.
Besides midi as a protocol for electronic equipment to communicate. (With Cubase VST)...
Is this right? Each musical instrument, whether it be a hardware midi keyboard, synth, sampler or drum machine and/or software VST instrument or other- has 16 midi channels each.
So using Cubase as a sequencer this would mean that if I had two VST instruments, a midi keyboard and a Korg Triton- I would have four separate sets of 16 midi channels?
I saw a midi keyboard where you can program 16 channels. If you were using the midi keyboard in conjunction with a VST instrument, would that mean you can change the settings on the keyboard to where you have one sound on channel one- another on channel 2, channel 3 and so on all the way up to 16?
-Then you can flip back and forth to play those different sounds on each channel.
I don't mean polyphony- the sixteen channels are meant to be used for different instrument sounds right?
Can anyone give me a better way to think about midi channels?
Thanks for any insight!
I know the concept of midi is easy to understand, but I think it's one of those things that when you get it- you really GET IT. I'm not there, but I wanted to ask if I was thinking about it correctly- feel free to tell me where I'm wrong.
Besides midi as a protocol for electronic equipment to communicate. (With Cubase VST)...
Is this right? Each musical instrument, whether it be a hardware midi keyboard, synth, sampler or drum machine and/or software VST instrument or other- has 16 midi channels each.
So using Cubase as a sequencer this would mean that if I had two VST instruments, a midi keyboard and a Korg Triton- I would have four separate sets of 16 midi channels?
I saw a midi keyboard where you can program 16 channels. If you were using the midi keyboard in conjunction with a VST instrument, would that mean you can change the settings on the keyboard to where you have one sound on channel one- another on channel 2, channel 3 and so on all the way up to 16?
-Then you can flip back and forth to play those different sounds on each channel.
I don't mean polyphony- the sixteen channels are meant to be used for different instrument sounds right?
Can anyone give me a better way to think about midi channels?
Thanks for any insight!