Post your songs that use MIDI please...

[Jotosuds]

i'm just wondering what MIDI is capable of doing. i don't know anything about what it can do, so i wanted to hear examples of MIDI in your guys' songs.

thanks!

 

[Krakit]

If MIDI is done right, you'll never know that it was used.

Carl

 

[SGPIANOMAN]

I too would like to hear a song with "correct" midi. I always hear midi and it sounds like its being performed on a sega genesis..hehe.

 

[Blue Cyberia]

All my productions are done using midi. You can check them all at
http://www.mp3.com/bluecyberia

My latest "Delio" that I just finished is at
http://www.nowhereradio.com/artists/album.php?aid=1730&alid=-1

They don't sound like a video game. I always play all the notes using a keyboard. I don't step record.

 

[drstawl]

I posted this as a MaxB challenge,

Two clips. One done with a Soundblaster, the other done with a GINA 20. Both recorded in 16 bits 44.1KHz rate.

Both nothing but MIDI.

 

[Laynestaley]

This cover of Coldplay is the first time I used midi. I don't even play keyboards. The song has a lot of synths.

I wish I could do vocals with midi too !

 

[ChristopherM]

Well, I pretty much only use MIDI for drums.
I program them in Sonar and run them through my Boss DR-770 for the sounds.
All four of these tunes are MIDI drums:
http://www.nowhereradio.com/artists/album.php?aid=3523&alid=-1

 

[Pedullist]

I wish I could do vocals with midi too !

I'm glad you can't. Love your voice, Laynestaley. Hell, I even like the real Layne Staley.

Most of my music contains a certain amount of midi (drums, rhodes, hammond, mellotrons, cheesy synths). I did record some midi only stuff before, but I'm not too fond of the sound.

Here it is (Goede Plannen I, II, III...back in the day where I just scribbled notes on paper in public transportation services.......I transported them into my computer several years later.....but I was never satisfied with the sounds......o well.......some of the ideas are cool)

http://www.nowhereradio.com/artists/album.php?aid=2639&alid=456

 

[14yearoldkid]

?

what is MIDI?

 

[ChristopherM]

Re: ?

what is MIDI?

Musical Instrument Digital Interface.

It's how electronic instruments can "talk to each other."

For instance, I program a midi drum line on my computer (no sounds, just "instructions"/data) and run a line out to my drum machine. When I start the midi sequence, the computer is telling the drum machine what to play.

Some reading material for you on MIDI:

http://www.soniccontrol.com/tech/midi/faq/
http://www.harmony-central.com/MIDI/Doc/doc.html#int

 

[TexRoadkill]

I only use midi for muting my console during mixdowns. Does that count?

 

[A1A2]

depend on how you input the MIDI signals, it can sound as human as possible or as machine as possible.

The piano in this song was recorded with a midi piano, later edited in Sonar for some timing issues. That thread will give you more details

https://homerecording.com/bbs/showthread.php?s=&threadid=102991


Al

 

[ChristopherM]

I only use midi for muting my console during mixdowns. Does that count?

???

 

[Giganova]

I use MIDI all the time, couldn't live without it.

Basically, my Oberheim OB12 synthesizer serves as MIDI controller both for samples in Kontakt and other Logic virtual instruments and samplers, and controls a whole bunch of outboard gear (drum boxes & synths).

MIDI is neat when you have it set up properly. It only sounds like a Commodore C64 sound module when you trigger C64 sounds with it. MIDI has nothing to do with the quality & texture of sound, its just a protocol machines use to talk to each other.

 

[Sen]

???

MIDI automation