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.
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)
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.
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.