MIDI Recording Setup: Samples & Sound Libraries

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Okay now, next under our hardware. Another alternative for I say the non-musician or non-composer. If you're just looking to make beats, you can instead of using a Midi keyboard, you can invest in samples or a sound library. It's not necessarily, they're kind of like sound cards. Your internal sound cards I was speaking about earlier, that you can go and shop and buy and load onto your hard drive into your system. But sample libraries are more like musical arrangements already composed, already laid out. So all you have to do is take, say you have a drum beat. And it'll play for a certain amount of time. All you have to do is take that drum beat and separate it into blocks, which I'll show you later. And arrange it like that, to where you don't even have to perform anything. So it's pretty much like clicking, cutting and pasting to arrange your own sound. And they have these sound library samples, and a host of variety of different sound cards as well. You know, and as far as strings, orchestrational strings, guitar riffs. Like I said, drum loops, piano riffs and progressions. They have a host of different samples, and mainly mostly for I guess, not necessarily the non-musician, but like DJ's. Mostly DJ's use samples and arrange samples to make different tracks and beats. Very fun to work with. I use a midi controller, but I also like playing with samples. They're fun, I prefer to produce my own music but samples are also fun as well. So if you're not really looking to get into the musical arrangement aspect of midi recording, you can always go and get sample library cards, that will give you a host and variety of different sounds to choose from and to compose with.

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