MIDI Recording Setup: Mouse & Keyboard

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Okay next I'll discuss the keyboard and the mouse which is very necessary for sequencing and editing under a mini base software program. Okay. This a keyboard, since I have a laptop, it's built in to my laptop, and your keyboard is, you know, with your numbers and your letter and so forth, okay. And this is necessary for shortcuts as far as, say I wanted to delete something, instead of like, looking for the delete, I can do like a quick something and delete, you know, different shortcuts. Also, once you, say if you make a drum track, you want to name your track, you can go in and type drum to label your track, as drums, and that's good for once you have a host of different tracks. Being able to tell the difference between what sound is what sound and it's good for, you know, when you send your sounds off to a person who's mixing and mastering, that way they won't have to go and figure out what is what, they already know. So yes, the keyboard is very necessary. Also the mouse, this is a mouse if you don't know, okay. It's a little thing that you use to control the cursor on your screen, okay. And the mouse is necessary as well for making it real easy and quick to edit within your software. Without your mouse, it's pretty difficult to go in and edit, but if with a mouse, you can go in to, which I'll show you later, you can go in to precise locations and click and do the necessary things to make it a lot easier experience and not so tedious. So, what you, you definitely will need a keyboard and a mouse. Now if you don't have a laptop it's okay because they have external keyboards that you can buy that's separate, and they have them in a whole so different styles and prices, a lot of them very affordable and mouses as well.

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