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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 2

All right, this is Aaron De Azevedo, and I'm here with Expert Village. I'm going to talk a little more about MIDI, and what instruments can be used easily with MIDI, and which other, which instruments should be recorded live. Most percussion instruments like drums, congas, anything like that can be, you can do a pretty convincing MIDI imitation. For example, let's see, let's get a drum set going on here. Once I add a little bit of reverb onto that nobody's going to be able to tell that that wasn't a real drummer doing that. Piano, it can also be done really well with MIDI. Oops, that's not my piano. Let me go to my piano sound. Right now it doesn't, it's not convincing, but once I record it and mix it, add reverbs and everything it'll sound like a good piano. There's some that are really, I think, hard to do as MIDI. One is the guitar. For some reason the guitar, it just sounds fake most of the times when you do it through MIDI. Unless you want to spend tons of time on it, but then it's not worth it. Might as well hire a guitar player and do it. That's why I'm still on the job as a guitar player. Another instrument that is really easy, really easy to imitate is a bass. MIDI basses, there's tons of them, they sound great. Hard instruments to do are solo strings, solo violins, anything like that are pretty hard to do with just MIDI, but it can be done. But sometimes it's nice to hire a real violinist for that.

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