What is MIDI?

[Laura]

Originally Posted by richiebee

Looks like some of you need a music theory 101. It's helpful to know how music is broken down into subdivisions, particularly for quantizing, but also for using the piano roll editor and drum editor. Understanding it will make much more sense of what your DAW is telling you about where your notes are placed and the length of them.

Rich

Yeah I know about basic rhythm, like 1/16 notes, measures etc.

But the DAW interface doesn't seem to relate to those. There is a grid and a series of numbers at the top, like a graph, but I don't know what those numbers are. Fractions of a second? It doesn't relate to "parts of a measure", like 16th notes.

I know about metronome timing like 60bpm etc. but again, I'm having trouble relating this to the grid.

[Phlipper]

Originally Posted by richiebee

Looks like some of you need a music theory 101. It's helpful to know how music is broken down into subdivisions, particularly for quantizing, but also for using the piano roll editor and drum editor and if you're tracking a live band to the DAW's click, even in the project window. Understanding it will make much more sense of what your DAW is telling you about where your notes are placed and the length of them.

Rich

Sage advice indeed! I know I do!!

[richiebee]

I'm not sure about LE, but in Cubase SX, you can select different measurements for your project. Try right clicking where the "ruler" is, and see if you can choose bars and beats, or something like that.

Virtually all my stuff is MIDI based, so usually bars and beats is the best unit of measurement for me. But I also do work to film, and for that I need hours, minutes, seconds and frames. I can either set up two rulers on the time line, or switch between them. I would think you could do that in LE too.

[Phlipper]

Originally Posted by richiebee

I'm not sure about LE, but in Cubase SX, you can select different measurements for your project. Try right clicking where the "ruler" is, and see if you can choose bars and beats, or something like that.

Virtually all my stuff is MIDI based, so usually bars and beats is the best unit of measurement for me. But I also do work to film, and for that I need hours, minutes, seconds and frames. I can either set up two rulers on the time line, or switch between them. I would think you could do that in LE too.

Yes, you can. I should've included that with my post. Oops!

[Midiman]

Hello everybody!
I enjoyed Richiebee's midi production and it moved me to do some more work myself with the midi controllers and stuff...I'm hoping that this little production will inspire someone as Richiee's work got me moving....This was done in Sonar 4 rewired with Reason 2.5.....Peace!

Midiman