NewbMediaGuy
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I'm trying to decide on what type of keyboard I want/need for my thing I'll be calling my home studio. Basically I want to get into using Midi, and I've looked at some Midi controllers, but they don't seem to have very many cool features like some synthesizers do.
I've had a lot of fun at Guitar World just playing around on the synthesizers, tweaking the knobs and dials making all kinds of different sounds I think would be sweet to put in a song. The thing I'm not sure of though is so far I know MIDI doesn't transfer audio, just data, so I would think that those cool sounds I make on a synthesizer wouldn't transfer over to my computer, and would probably sound much different from what I expected. Am I right or wrong there?
So basically I want a synthesizer, but how do I get the sounds from a synthesizer over to my computer? Could I use this synthesizer as a MIDI controller also? Or would I be able to do the same stuff with a hardware synthesizer, only using a MIDI controller and some software as the synthesizer? If I could go the software route I'd rather do that because I'd assume it would be much cheaper, but what are the pros and cons?
Okay, if I said something that doesn't make sense, please correct me so I don't become even more confused than I already am Also, I'm always interested to hear other peoples thoughts and opinions on my setup, or what they like to use themselves.
So far I think I'm going to be getting Cakewalk's Project 5, but to be honest I still don't understand what the program does exactly, I just figure if it's aimed for people that want to make dance kinda music, then I'd be interested in it (because that's what I want to make for now)
I've had a lot of fun at Guitar World just playing around on the synthesizers, tweaking the knobs and dials making all kinds of different sounds I think would be sweet to put in a song. The thing I'm not sure of though is so far I know MIDI doesn't transfer audio, just data, so I would think that those cool sounds I make on a synthesizer wouldn't transfer over to my computer, and would probably sound much different from what I expected. Am I right or wrong there?
So basically I want a synthesizer, but how do I get the sounds from a synthesizer over to my computer? Could I use this synthesizer as a MIDI controller also? Or would I be able to do the same stuff with a hardware synthesizer, only using a MIDI controller and some software as the synthesizer? If I could go the software route I'd rather do that because I'd assume it would be much cheaper, but what are the pros and cons?
Okay, if I said something that doesn't make sense, please correct me so I don't become even more confused than I already am Also, I'm always interested to hear other peoples thoughts and opinions on my setup, or what they like to use themselves.
So far I think I'm going to be getting Cakewalk's Project 5, but to be honest I still don't understand what the program does exactly, I just figure if it's aimed for people that want to make dance kinda music, then I'd be interested in it (because that's what I want to make for now)