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yep. MIDI is great for a keyboard/piano interface with velocity, pitch bends and a sustain pedal, maybe some filter modulation if you're feeling frisky. But usi
by mjr00 3y ago
yep. MIDI is great for a keyboard/piano interface with velocity, pitch bends and a sustain pedal, maybe some filter modulation if you're feeling frisky. But using it for guitars and orchestras? Use the right keyswitch note to change the articulation, use a different keyswitch to pick the "right" note (since many instruments e.g. guitars have multiple notes that play a C3), maybe the actual notes themselves don't make a sound but instead shape a chord that can be strummed by a separate strum trigger note. Oh and the dynamics of the sound might be controlled by a CC, which shows up in Kontakt if you're lucky and requires looking at the manual if you're not. Oh yeah and none of this is standardized, so a Spitfire orchestra library's keyswitch controls are entirely different from EastWest. Fun.
Sounds like MIDI 2.0 will help with some of this, at least.
- hospitalJail 3y agoYour comment about guitars is why I decided to continue playing with guitars despite the EDM craze(and I love EDM). The ability to create analog waves naturally is something that I thought software would struggle with, or at a minimum, be too difficult/time consuming. It hasnt turned into anything useful, never ended up making any public music, but as far as I can tell, I can create weird sounding music faster than anyone with software. I'm happily waiting for AI Music to turn my blah into fab.
- ROTMetro 3y agoAren't most musical scores these days all done in MIDI? With the other option being to hire X number of musicians plus a conductor? So seems like a pretty AMAZING thing that this 80s technology is able to do what previously took a score of people to do, and a use case that was probably not considerated during it's creation.