Learn how to use this communication protocol to enhance your recordings in the third millennium. Whether you're creating a MIDI sequencing extravaganza, supporting an acoustic recording, or synchronizing equipment, MIDI (which has come a long way since its implementation in the '80s) is likely to be involved. See and hear practical applications of MIDI gear such as keyboards, sound modules, effect processors, recorders, mixers, triggers, and controllers. This book will help you produce more powerful and impressive recordings through a deeper understanding of MIDI. The included CD provides audio examples.

Since its initial release in 1997, Paul Gilreath's The Guide to MIDI Orchestration has been the premiere text on creating realistic emulations of a symphony orchestra using samplers and computer recording techniques. Now in its fourth edition, The Guide to MIDI Orchestration explains how to merge this ever-expanding technology with the artistry of orchestration to produce the most lifelike recordings possible. The book is written for composers, arrangers, and MIDI musicians of all levels, and will be helpful to game composers, film and television composers, traditional orchestral composers, teachers, instructors, and the serious hobbyist. Highlights of the book include: • Introduction to and overview of the orchestra • In-depth discussions of each orchestral section • Detailed information on each instrument's timbre, range and uses • Discussions of orchestration techniques • Demonstrations on how to build an orchestration from the ground up • Presentations on techniques for achieving balance and musical interest • Setup and recommendations for software and equipment • Details on setting up a multi-computer network for use as slave computers • Overview of software sampler and Digital Audio Workstation software • Presentation of note entry methods • DAW and sampler template implementation • Detailed steps for achieving realistic reverberation and instrument placement • Start to finish steps to achieve a final mix • Insightful interviews with top mastering engineers.

Get complete guidance on both traditional orchestration and modern production techniques with this unique book. With effective explanations and clear illustrations, you will learn how to integrate the traditional approach to orchestration with the modern sequencing techniques and tools available. You will discover how to bridge the two approaches in order to enhance your final production. The accompanying CD includes a comprehensive and wide selection of examples, templates and sounds to allow you to hear the techniques within the book. By covering both approaches, this book provides a comprehensive and solid learning experience that will develop your skills and prove extremely competitive in the music production business. • Complete orchestration manual covering both traditional and modern techniques • Versatile, non-software specific, perfect choice for professionals and colleges • Accompanying DVD with examples, templates and sounds brings techniques to life

The MIDI Manual is a complete reference on MIDI, written by a well-respected sound engineer and author. This best-selling guide provides a clear explanation of what MIDI is, how to use electronic instruments and an explanation of sequencers and how to use them. You will learn how to set up an efficient MIDI system and how to get the best out of your music. The MIDI Manual is packed full of useful tips and practical examples on sequencing and mixing techniques. It also covers editors/librarians, working with a score, MIDI in mass media and multimedia and synchronisation. The MIDI spec is set out in detail along with the helpful guidelines on using the implementation chart. Illustrated throughout with helpful photos and screengrabs, this is the most readable and clear book on MIDI available. • Complete illustrated guide to the MIDI spec and explanation of the implementation chart • Practical advice on sampling and sequencing, covering all the major DAWs • Includes all the latest developments in hardware and software.

Understanding MIDI — the Musical Instrument Digital Interface — is essential to the best use of modern musical equipment. Paul White covers the basics of MIDI and MIDI equipment.

From how MIDI works, to how to connect devices through it, to how it integrates into a computer environment, MIDI Power!, Second Edition is a comprehensive reference guide to MIDI. The book provides an in-depth look at MIDI, its messages, and protocols, and the information necessary to navigate it with ease. Readers learn when to use MIDI, how to edit MIDI, what technology uses MIDI, what software uses MIDI, and how MIDI is integrated into computers and what that implies for musicians, sound designers, and audio enthusiasts. MIDI Power!, Second Edition provides complete coverage of MIDI hardware and software, is suitable for both Mac and Windows platforms.

The revised 6th edition of this easy-to-use book is written in simple English and assumes no prior background with MIDI. Starting with the computer, How MIDI Works takes readers all the way through MIDI, sequencing and digital audio recording, and features chapter summary questions to ensure understanding. Topics covered include: the computer language of MIDI, controllers for keyboard operations, the mixing board within, hard disk audio recording, and many more. This text is a mainstay at colleges and universities across the nation.

In this new edition of The Midi Files, experienced programmer and musician Rob Young explains clearly and simply how you can get the best from MIDI. Going far beyond the contents of equipment manuals and user guides, The Midi Files 2ed is a comprehensive guide to everything you ever wanted to know about Midi. CD-ROM contains over 60 examples of MIDI files by the author, plus professional MIDI software for Windows from companies including Steinberg and Yamaha.

Questions about MIDI? This book has all the answers! Understanding the language that allows musical instruments to interface digitally is crucial for today's players, and this handy guide is the perfect place to start. What's MIDI? lays out all the essentials without bogging down newcomers in techno-talk. Possibly the only book on the subject you'll ever need!

Written as an all-around guide to the intensely popular Musical Instrument Digital Interface technology, The MIDI Manual, Second Edition provides a close-up look at the industry's top products and teaches you how to integrate them with your computer. Illustrations and step-by-step lessons teach you how to set up an efficient MIDI system as well as how to use your PC to expand your musical recording and performance techniques. Inside this book you'll learn: • MIDI components, functions and fundamentals • MIDI's full range of production techniques • The science of synchronization to combine MIDI and sync pulse timing • The art of sequencing. This manual has been revised and updated to include the new developments in hardware and software. Tips and practical examples on sequencing and mixing techniques have been added to enhance its usefulness as a reference tool for sound engineers, musicians and students.

Introduces the beginner to the concepts of MIDI.

Written by leading MIDI song file producer Dave Clackett of Hands On MIDI Software, the book lists the hardware and software you need to set up a sequencing system, and introduces the basics of sequencing and music notation. It explains how to program drums, keyboard, guitar and bass, as well as 'real' instruments — woodwind, brass, strings etc., and shows how effects, controllers, SysEx and quantising can be used to fine tune your song files. There are sections on synchronising to tape, standard MIDI files, copyright, transcribing from record, and a chapter on using MIDI files live. The book will be of particular interest to musicians using General MIDI/GS/XG equipment, but all the examples are relevant whether you use a hardware based sequencer or an Atari, PC, Mac or Amiga. With a help section, a glossary and appendices on General MIDI data, it's a book no MIDI musician can afford to be without.

This book is a guide for the musician, performer, producer, composer, recording engineer, computer enthusiast, student, or anyone wanting to acquire a good understanding of how to work with MIDI. It covers: the nuts and bolts of MIDI technology; putting together a MIDI system for any occasion; how to synchronize sequencers, drum machines, and other MIDI instruments; how to purchase MIDI instruments and software; MIDI codes are explained. Filled with diagrams, photographs, and charts to show you how to create your own MIDI system from a basic set-up to the outrageous.

If you want a basic down to earth introduction to MIDI and its capabilities, this is the book for you. It explains the basics of MIDI and what it can do for you, shows how computers can be used in a MIDI set-up and describes the use of sequencers in music making. There's a section on MIDI instruments — keyboards, drum machines, guitars, wind instruments etc. — and MIDI devices like mergers, pedals, effects units, switches and sync units. There's some practical advice on connecting up a MIDI system, and the book is nicely rounded off with a glossary of terms.

A guide to using MIDI synthesizers, samplers, soundcards, sequencers and computers. It shows how MIDI systems for a range of situations can be assembled trouble free. It also describes how to synchronize MIDI sequencers, drum machines, multitrack equipment, SMPTE based equipment and other MIDI intsruments. The work also describes MIDI codes and the techniques used in transmitting these codes between MIDI devices. It explains how to get the most out of any situation that calls for the use of synthesizers and electronic instruments.

Since its appearance in 1983, MIDI has become the universal communications standard for musical information. However, the MIDI language isn't easy to master. This book's comprehensive tutorial approach removes the mystery with an in-depth examination that takes the user from basic concepts to sophisticated techniques. Covers every major feature of the MIDI standard and targets the most likely users of MIDI products--instrumentalists who create music electronically. Includes products overviews.

MIDI For The Professional, now in its second edition, is the standard textbook for college-level courses in MIDI in the US and abroad. It has received rave reviews Keyboard, the Electronic Music Foundation, the IMA Newsletter, Piano & Keyboard magazine, and many other publications. For the serious MIDI user--performer, composer, programmer, multimedia author, equipment designer — there is no better source of information. Paul Lehrman is one of the best-known authors and teachers in the electronic music and pro audio fields (and is editor of Mix magazine's Web site) and Tim Tully, former editor of Electronic Musician magazine and technical editor of New Media, writes for EQ, Videography, and Pro Sound News, and plays a mean tenor. And there's a foreword by Bob Moog!

The first guide that clearly explains the impact that Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) has made on the creation of music. Profusely illustrated with easy-to-understand diagrams and examples that take the mystery out of MIDI.

This book starts out with a brief explanation of why and how MIDI works. It includes information on how to link keyboards, sequencers, drum machines and computers into powerful MIDI systems. Discusses every message in the MIDI language in a musical as well as technical point of view. Includes more than 100 detailed illustrations and diagrams showing the finer points of how to use MIDI equipment to its fullest.