Modern MIDI

4Recording MIDI

Now that we’ve covered hardware, it’s time to explore a variety of topics surrounding MIDI recording. You don’t have to be a proficient musician to achieve your desired musical results, but it is still important to emphasize musical training. The reason that musical training is recommended is because it will save you time and make the editing/mixing process much more efficient. The more you get right during the recording phase, the less you will have to fix later.

Figure 4.1 AKAI 88 and Laptop

The piano style keyboard controller is perhaps the most common way to record MIDI data. The second most common controller is the percussion ...