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Summary: Midi files are the fundamental home recording studio format; learn to build and manage your home recording studio in this free video on recording music.

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Aaron De Azevedo Aaron De Azevedo is a musician, composer, song writer, and teacher who has recorded for TV shows and CDs. He has been playing for 11 years. read more

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Midi Files & Home Recording Part 1

Hello, this is Aaron De Azevedo, and I'm here with Expert Village. I'm going to talk a little bit about my home studio setup and how to use MIDI. MIDI, is, is and that's what it does basically, is it sends information to my interface and then to my computer. For example, if I play, that note, it tells the computer that I'm playing this note and it records it. So I could, I could record, oops, and it just recorded that information. It's just, basically it's telling my computer that I played this note for this long, I played it this hard. The nice thing about this is that I don't like that sound, so I can, I can change the sound without having to record it again. Anyway, so that's the advantage to MIDI. The disadvantage is, that for some instruments it's hard to get an authentic-sounding, for example, a solo violin. It's a little bit more difficult to get a really authentic-sounding solo violin, just using MIDI. But, the nice thing is it gives me lots of flexibility after I'm done recording those notes I can go in, maybe I played one note wrong, I can change that note and it's really easy to edit. Also, maybe I, I didn't play it, play it on time. I can go through and I can, oops, there we go. I can put it on a, called quantizing it, so I can make it so it lands right on the beat, right on the sixteenth note, the eighth note, the quarter note. So that's the nice thing about MIDI, and it's pretty essential if you have your own home recording studio, you can do a lot with it.

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