This was great thanks so much! I’m a classically trained pianist. I have no idea how to use the midi keypads at all, and none of the TH-cam video guys explain it well enough without complicating it and sounding smartarsed without really explaining it. It’s great you explain it from pianist perspective in mind.
Wow, this is far and away the most helpful intro to MIDI I've ever seen! I grew up on an acoustic grand piano, then used a Rhodes through the 70s and onto a Yamaha DX7 in the 80s. Never really used (or thought I needed) MIDI. This has been so helpful in understanding this technology from a pianist's standpoint. Thank you!
Not that you or any of your viewers probably care, but MIDI can also be used to control DMX software stage lighting controllers like the one from Sweetlight. This means you can set up scenes and trigger form something like a Novation Launchpad. Sorry to digress. But on music, if you get a key board w/ action you like, but not sounds? Add an outboard sound module. MIDI is seriously cool stuff.
PM Chuck! You're the man! I learned more from you in 9 minutes than a lot of these ,esp young bucks, combined! NOTHING touches Old School! I'm pushing 60. I studied music (woodwinds) for a while, but haven't played in almost 25 years. THIS TIME I want to enjoy myself, have fun, and-- ultimately-- attempt to create the musical sounds and production concepts i have in my head. I can kick myself because I had a chance to take MIDI course when it first hit the scene. I'm NOT a keyboardist, but I can play and form scales and chords. I'd appreciate your suggestion on how to approach learning more about sound engineering at my age. Keep up the great work! So glad I stumbled upon your video! Peace...
Hahaha...I like your term, GROUND LEVEL, actually they were those who really were over using the convinience of this digital interface .while without the Midi they don't even know the keyboard and its use.hahaha. ....(no offense to those who pretend to be playing live) live-wired maybe.
I think that 1. Saying music interface for digital instruments limits the idea of midi because theres software like WIDI which take audio from analog instruments and outputs a midi signal to the unit therefore music instrument digital interface is sorta another meaning 2. This is a great video very simply explained and very easy to understand
I can not thank you enough for this video. I’ve just recently purchased a Yamaha PSR E363 and I’m starting to learn to play the keyboard. I was so confused about what a midi is. It’s my life’s ambition to be able to play movie scores.
Nice Video Chuck. Very informative to a old timer like myself not familiar with MIDI. Back during the Mid to later 1960’s while in high school I played in a Rock Band. Back then my keyboard of choice was a Farfisa Combo Compact Organ and a Vox Continental Organ. Of course back then there was no MIDI. Skip ahead to around 1989-1990 I purchased my first Keyboard a Casio CT670. Still have it to this day in very nice shape. It has MIDI IN,OUT and Thru sockets. Jump ahead to somewhere in the last 8 years or so I purchased a new Roland VR-09. I had to have it after what I saw it could do even though I don’t play outside my own home anymore. For years I thought about MIDI on occasion. I read different articles about it but never use what I read to do anything with it. What I would like to do today is make my Roland VR-09 the Master Keyboard and connect it through MIDI to my older Casio CT670 essentially making it the Slave Keyboard. My thinking tells me by doing this using a double keyboard stand will essentially make the two Keyboards similar to a double keyboard Organ. It would be nice to extend the VR-09 Keyboard into 2 Keyboards so to say. Just curious of your thoughts Chuck on what I am trying to accomplish.
Great !!!! works. Just blow my head off on how to explain MIDI to my14 yr. daughter for whom i just got a sythn. keyboard. Tq for making it so simple/complete.
MIDI has been around quite as computers were invented...,its not limited for recordings only. Here in this video, the guy explains it clearly HOW midi was invented for. It actually helps control the multiple functions of possible multiple compatible music gears. From initial to after touches to wave forms ... From transmitting to receiving datas. This video is best to save and Learn on.
So very simple straightforward and explanatory! Now i figure out to differentiate between typical look alike those instruments with tuts are for. I thought those are just piano and keyboards and midi was one of keyboards. Thanks for enlightment
Oh, thank goodness for your video! I was going crazy trying to understand this. Trying to connect my computer with pre-done MIDI files to a church organ that has MIDI, and I didn't have a clue. I was afraid I'd wreck the organ!
Thanks for that enlightening video. I am just getting into MIDI with Lowrey Sensation organ, Steinberg UR22 and a few DAWS. You have helped me getting MIDI to the DAW. Thankyou, and we wish you a very Merry Christmas.
Great advice, Thank you. I just wished you coud have also focused on connecting the muisc keyboard up to the computer to ansmit soundd, because this is somthng Ive never done and I like to learn. Maybe you have in another video. I'll take a look.
Thank you so much for this explanation! My Casio Celvano piano came with MIDI and I had no idea what it was! I'll have to try it out and see if it helps me with my practice sessions.
Yes, I've done a lot of MIDI programming and the succinct but precise way the designers of the MIDI protocol planned it all is just beautiful. When I started using MIDI quite a few years ago there were no USB/MIDI cables or adapters. In two of my PCs I still have the Creative Labs sound card with the MIDI adapter for the joystick socket!
Well done video. Thanks a lot for that. exemplary video. And if you will release a video about any way how to connect any Workstation for Exempel PC3A to a MIDI interfaces order to record music signal.
This is an amazing video. Great to hear. I have been trouble installing a midi. I have a cheap midi out to USB which it is a cable with 5 oins to USB. When i plugged into my computer and I pressed a key for example, if I play C, it plays a different note and if I keep hitting middle c, it plays another note and it holds even if I'm not pressing the keys. I do not know if it is the problem with the cable, usb 2.0, my laptop has no usb 2.0, but only 3.0, the problem with the piano keyboard or the operating system. I use a Roland XP-10. It is an old piano.
I knew nothing about MIDI before watching your video. Now, I know about MIDI. The old time paper tape player pianos have come along way with today’s technology!
So the short answer is that midi is a digital (think computer) system for recording data not music per se. It does not record or send/ receive an audio signal like the old tape machines etc. It records etc., only data. Like a computer it only stores the key you press, the velocity of that key, the duration and several other factors relating to the data of that key. Therefore, because you are NOT storing or sending /receiving audio you can easily manipulate it like a computer. If you misspell a word in a word processing program you can easily correct it later that sort of thing. In fact, using a computer and a digital workstation, think mixing board, you can later basically alter almost every aspect of your recorded MIDI, not audio, data. The pitch, notes, velocity, timing, everything. This is why half the MUSAK recorded today is really just computers which have been programmed to play a certain way there are no, or very few, actual musicians. However, don't expect to actually sound like Eric Clapton or Ginger Baker, unless perhaps you sample them, and yes they use computers to analyse sounds that occur on recordings to figure out whether you have stolen someone else's sounds and put them out there for commercial use and you will be sued to pay for it. It's great to have MIDI just don't expect it to replace an actual human musician. There are many nuances of playing that are basically pretty difficult to copy using just a computer. They are getting better though. So if you want to spend like $20,000 to get all the kewl stuff and you know how to play, at least keyboard, you can sound almost like an entire band.
Your comprehension is pretty much straight on! But that is one aspect of MIDI - there's much more! It can also be used to control other MIDI instruments (one MIDI device can control up to 16 MIDI devices by daisy chaining each device's MIDI IN and OUT jacks to the next device's). In fact, I use a Keytar (keyboard that straps around your neck like a guitar) when I want to go into the audience during a performance - it has a MIDI OUT which I hook a MIDI cable into, and the other end goes into my digital piano (on stage) so that when I play the Keytar, it actually sends the MIDI info to my stage piano, which in turn plays it as though I were sitting at that stage piano! MIDI also has other uses, like controlling stage lights from a keyboard, and other things. So basically my "intro to MIDI" only covered one aspect.
By MIDI you just giving informations to computer which key you press, how strong and how long do you holding it. It depends of your DAW ( [ Digital Audio Workstation ] program for making music) and its plugins like Virtual Piano, Virtual Drums, Virtual Strings ... etc etc what sound you will get from your MIDI recorded file. Every plugin has its own scheme of keys (for example in drummer you can have C2 as kick and D2 as Snare, C4 as Crash and A5 as 1st Tom.... You can play and record Piano song then you can load your MIDI file to another instrument/plugin and you can get sound of organ on it. Also you can easily edit your file by erasing or moving or cutting the notes, balance the volume or length of it and save it as MIDI.Simply said MIDI is notation for Virtual instruments same like for musician is notation sheets. BTW you can play MIDI also in older mobile phones as ringtone since it works on the same basis. You just need to know which key is which tone or instrument in polyphony of phone.
Hello! Thank you, very helpful and aducational. Would you please create a video showing how to setup all the MIDI connections between two keyboards where you want to control one keyboard by another keyboard (both arranger keyboards). In my case I have a Yamaha Genos and a Korg pa3x76. I have found a lot of videos on YoutTube showing, explaining what MIDI is, what the connecitons are (in, out, through) but I couldn't find anything explainng how to set it all up on the keyboards.
Hey Chuck! This is a great intro to MIDI, I’ll share this link for those who need a tutorial. I run into a lot of people with MIDI questions, what it is, which you’ve just answered in this video, but also how to set it up, what cables to use, how to use it with VSTs, how to route it out their MacBooks and through their audio interface so they can hear it on external speakers, etc... Perhaps a Part II - MIDI w/VST Setup would be beneficial? Thanks for the great work Chuck!
Also by the way I got an Arturia Keylab 49 key MIDI as my Christmas Gift in December 2019. Over a Month later & I'm yet to even Unbox it & set it up. However when I finally do, I plan on making Videos of the Unboxing & Setup & also its Use.
Wonderful channel. Keep doing what you are doing. You are a great explainer. I have been looking for an advice regarding buying a midi-controller. What do you suggest to buy between M-Audio Hammer 88, Komplete Kontrol S88, Arturia Keylab 88 MKII, Novation SL88 and Roland A-88. Considering the fact that I am looking for a good music production gear and software. Please help me out.
Why do you need a MIDI out _and_ in, on your instrument? I understand the data going out to be sent to your computer/DAW, for recording, but what data would travel _back_ to your keyboard (from your computer) and for what purpose? Is that to take something pre-recorded and send it from your computer (DAW?) to your instrument so that it plays back the song on your instrument? Just want to make sure I'm understanding this. Also, when you record in MIDI, as opposed to actual sound, are you still able to hear what you're playing as you record? Also when you've got the one piano hooked up to the other -- are you hearing the sound come out of the 2nd piano? And is there a way to hook up two pianos together where you get the sound of the 2nd piano playing through the speakers for the 1st?
I hope I am able to use the Px560 as midi controller. If I can, i could buy a cheap rack expander and I'd have a really good instrument for rock bands gigging.
Hi Chuck! Thank you so much for the nicely explained video! I really enjoy watching your piano reviews. I have a question to ask. I'm planning to get a Yamaha P125 or Roland FP30. Both can produce MIDI through USB. Is it possible to import that MIDI file on a DAW , apply a virtual grand piano sound to it (with plugin I guess, tell me more about it), and convert it as a WAV file? Do I need any kind of audio interface to do that? And is it possible to convert that MIDI file to WAV, with the same piano sound produced by one of the pianos above? Thanks in advance!
Very helpful, thank you. I grew up playing acoustic pianos, but have an old Roland HP330 that I'm repairing and hoping to set up with its MIDI and a microphone as well. All brand new for me. A bit off topic, but do you recommend any open source software over others (PC)?
Great job. You make it playing and simple. Now it does work however there's a massive delay receiving it when the alone is going through the computer. Question I have is can there be any way the sound can go backwards as in instead of the computer the sound I want coming from the computer can go to the speakers on the keyboard?
You can actually daisy chain multiple keyboards with varying degrees of possibilities between them! I've barely scratched the surface in this video, but I'm glad its already taught you something new!
Nice work Chuck, thank you. Presume if you take out the piano piece via midi to computer/recorder, you can then not only correct the 'bad note' as you said, but also then play the corrected midi file back thru the midi in port of the piano and then it plays the original but corrected piece?
Chuck, this by far is your best instruction video. I'll watch it again to see if I missed anything. I'd like to see a more in depth video on midi an example would be adding a second foot switch/pedal to your rig, perhaps connecting two keyboards together (you said it could be done but what does one need to do to get it right?). Otherwise, keep up the great videos. Sam.
Thanks, Sam. There seems to be a lot of interest in MIDI... so I'll most likely produce more of these type of videos. As for connecting 2 keyboards together - a MIDI cable (5-pin DIN at each end) that's connected from the MIDI OUT of one, to the MIDI IN of the other, and having them both set to the same MIDI channel is all you need to accomplish that. I know, easier said that done, right?
Hello. I'm watching you in 2021. Considering MIDI functionality--I would like to purchase a Casio Key Lighting keyboard ( I am a beginner). Have you a relevant video about such MIDI usage? Thank you
Hi, Question ?, i connect UMX250 Behringer to Sibelius for recording/notation, but when i press the UMX250 keys , unfortunately the voice comes delay to the speaker (beat/ tempo), please guide me how to fix this, thanks.
Roland A49 with additional drumpad for orchestral style organic music production or something else? I already have a basic 61 key arranger and I want the best combo of both to fulfill each other's gaps and tagteam them. I have a yamaha psre353 as an arranger but I cant access it for now because of lockdown. I was planning to buy a midi keyboard with good keybed and minimum knobs and faders. Since I play piano style and am a beginner in DAW, I have no idea how important are knobs and faders and pads for things such as looping and all. Is it better to buy a roland a49 along with a separate akaipad or buy something else? I want the best combo with my arranger since it can be used as a midi too but only for its keybed. I mostly play piano and strings but would love to start learning looping, altough I have seen mostly looping requires pads too in midi. What will the best buy for me considering all of this? I'm really confused.
I clicked right away when I read "for idiots" finallyyyyyyy
Thankyou. You just made me NOT waste 12 minutes of my life, unlike those other MIDI explanation videos
9 years ago and still the most understandable explanation of what MIDI is and why it matters. Thanks, Chuck! 🎹👍
Wonderful explanation! I am 62 years old and this was much more understandable than those fast talking young guys. Thank you.
Clear, sharp and crisp explanation of what MIDI is. Broken down to such simplicity People love when things are ex
This was great thanks so much!
I’m a classically trained pianist. I have no idea how to use the midi keypads at all, and none of the TH-cam video guys explain it well enough without complicating it and sounding smartarsed without really explaining it. It’s great you explain it from pianist perspective in mind.
This is exactly what I was going to write :)
Jon - This is excellent! You are a great teacher and humanize technology, which is rare! Thank you
Oh, this is perfect! This is just what this retired engineer/hobbyist musician needs to get started. Thank you!
This is what is missing from most of instructional videos on internet: the basics or fundamentals. Thank you for posting this video.
Wow, this is far and away the most helpful intro to MIDI I've ever seen! I grew up on an acoustic grand piano, then used a Rhodes through the 70s and onto a Yamaha DX7 in the 80s. Never really used (or thought I needed) MIDI. This has been so helpful in understanding this technology from a pianist's standpoint. Thank you!
Not that you or any of your viewers probably care, but MIDI can also be used to control DMX software stage lighting controllers like the one from Sweetlight. This means you can set up scenes and trigger form something like a Novation Launchpad. Sorry to digress. But on music, if you get a key board w/ action you like, but not sounds? Add an outboard sound module. MIDI is seriously cool stuff.
PM Chuck! You're the man! I learned more from you in 9 minutes than a lot of these ,esp young bucks, combined! NOTHING touches Old School! I'm pushing 60. I studied music (woodwinds) for a while, but haven't played in almost 25 years. THIS TIME I want to enjoy myself, have fun, and-- ultimately-- attempt to create the musical sounds and production concepts i have in my head. I can kick myself because I had a chance to take MIDI course when it first hit the scene. I'm NOT a keyboardist, but I can play and form scales and chords. I'd appreciate your suggestion on how to approach learning more about sound engineering at my age. Keep up the great work! So glad I stumbled upon your video! Peace...
This is the best midi video on you tube in my opinion. Good job.
Thanks!!
1000% agree
100% agree with you my fellow youTuber.
Chuck, your video is wonderful. Yes, there are a lot of ground level people who need the very basics like you present. Thank you very mucha
Hahaha...I like your term, GROUND LEVEL, actually they were those who really were over using the convinience of this digital interface .while without the Midi they don't even know the keyboard and its use.hahaha. ....(no offense to those who pretend to be playing live) live-wired maybe.
I think that
1. Saying music interface for digital instruments limits the idea of midi because theres software like WIDI which take audio from analog instruments and outputs a midi signal to the unit therefore music instrument digital interface is sorta another meaning
2. This is a great video very simply explained and very easy to understand
I can not thank you enough for this video. I’ve just recently purchased a Yamaha PSR E363 and I’m starting to learn to play the keyboard. I was so confused about what a midi is. It’s my life’s ambition to be able to play movie scores.
How is it going?
Thanks Chuck, this helped me a lot to understand what midi is all about. Tomorrow I will start to use my first keyboard (at the age of 40). Peace out!
Cleared up several questions I had. Thanks for "dumbing" it down to practical uses.
Well done Chuck!!! First explanation I've heard that I comprehend. Thanks brother!!!
Strange language...you say it's called Plain English. Very well presented and simple to understand. Well done! Thank you very much.
Glad you liked it!
Straight forward, To-the-point exaplanation of MIDI
clear and concise. thanks for simplifying it for the layman.
Nice Video Chuck. Very informative to a old timer like myself not familiar with MIDI. Back during the Mid to later 1960’s while in high school I played in a Rock Band. Back then my keyboard of choice was a Farfisa Combo Compact Organ and a Vox Continental Organ. Of course back then there was no MIDI. Skip ahead to around 1989-1990 I purchased my first Keyboard a Casio CT670. Still have it to this day in very nice shape. It has MIDI IN,OUT and Thru sockets. Jump ahead to somewhere in the last 8 years or so I purchased a new Roland VR-09. I had to have it after what I saw it could do even though I don’t play outside my own home anymore. For years I thought about MIDI on occasion. I read different articles about it but never use what I read to do anything with it. What I would like to do today is make my Roland VR-09 the Master Keyboard and connect it through MIDI to my older Casio CT670 essentially making it the Slave Keyboard. My thinking tells me by doing this using a double keyboard stand will essentially make the two Keyboards similar to a double keyboard Organ. It would be nice to extend the VR-09 Keyboard into 2 Keyboards so to say. Just curious of your thoughts Chuck on what I am trying to accomplish.
Simple and informative explanation. Good job explaining MIDI.
Great !!!! works. Just blow my head off on how to explain MIDI to my14 yr. daughter for whom i just got a sythn. keyboard. Tq for making it so simple/complete.
I’m giving this a thumbs up just for the video title alone 🤣🤣
MIDI has been around quite as computers were invented...,its not limited for recordings only. Here in this video, the guy explains it clearly HOW midi was invented for. It actually helps control the multiple functions of possible multiple compatible music gears. From initial to after touches to wave forms ... From transmitting to receiving datas. This video is best to save and Learn on.
So very simple straightforward and explanatory! Now i figure out to differentiate between typical look alike those instruments with tuts are for. I thought those are just piano and keyboards and midi was one of keyboards. Thanks for enlightment
This has cleared a few things up for me. Unfortunately I bought some WIDI devices that I didn’t actually need. We learn. Thanks
Excellent! Concise, clear and very easy to follow Thank you!
Oh, thank goodness for your video! I was going crazy trying to understand this. Trying to connect my computer with pre-done MIDI files to a church organ that has MIDI, and I didn't have a clue. I was afraid I'd wreck the organ!
Thanks much for this basic, concise overview. It was very helpful as I’m entering the digital piano era with a Kawai MP11se stage piano.
Thanks for the great, concise explanation Chuck!
Thanks for that enlightening video. I am just getting into MIDI with Lowrey Sensation organ, Steinberg UR22 and a few DAWS.
You have helped me getting MIDI to the DAW.
Thankyou, and we wish you a very Merry Christmas.
Thank you... Merry Xmas back @ya !
Hi, I see you said something about a Lowrey organ, I have a Lowrey & I would like to know how use the MIDI with it..
Lydia
Thank you very much for your great explaining midi..this as been a great help.. at last I know to connect to my computer...
Excellent video, well done Chuck!!!
Great advice, Thank you. I just wished you coud have also focused on connecting the muisc keyboard up to the computer to ansmit soundd, because this is somthng Ive never done and I like to learn. Maybe you have in another video. I'll take a look.
Wow.... this helped me a lot!! Just bought a Casio and thought it was not ipad adaptable, but you saved the day!!
Great explanation. Simple and straight to the point. Thanks!
Thank you so much for this explanation! My Casio Celvano piano came with MIDI and I had no idea what it was! I'll have to try it out and see if it helps me with my practice sessions.
Best MIDI explanation video. Thank you !!
Really enjoy your videos, Chuck. I am an 81 yo piano learner.
Rock on!
Great video and introduction to the concept of MIDI.
best video to understand MIDI I was getting confused watching other videos, now I really understand,Cheers!!!
Yes makes more sense to me too as MUSICAL INTERFACE - DIGITAL INSTRUMENT. Exactly. Thanks For The Video. Liked 👍 Subscribed & Shared. 😎
Excellent video and information. Now I get it! 👍
MIDI and TCP/IP were so well thought that we still use them decades later.
Exception rather than the rule.
Yes, I've done a lot of MIDI programming and the succinct but precise way the designers of the MIDI protocol planned it all is just beautiful. When I started using MIDI quite a few years ago there were no USB/MIDI cables or adapters. In two of my PCs I still have the Creative Labs sound card with the MIDI adapter for the joystick socket!
@@SuperLittleTyke Yeah I had one of those, maybe mid '90s. The guys with the Ataris were set.
@@SuperLittleTyke that’s awesome :) you should make a video of that for posterity (and my curiosity)
Excellent explanation. Now I am enlightened. Thank you.
Thank you! You explain things very well and clearly.
Thank you for clarifying these things for us😊
Great video! Straight to the point and extremely informative. Thank you!
Thank you very much! I finally have an idea about what midi is!
Bravo! Now I understand this MIDI you speak off.
Well done video. Thanks a lot for that. exemplary video. And if you will release a video about any way how to connect any Workstation for Exempel PC3A to a MIDI interfaces order to record music signal.
This is an amazing video. Great to hear. I have been trouble installing a midi. I have a cheap midi out to USB which it is a cable with 5 oins to USB. When i plugged into my computer and I pressed a key for example, if I play C, it plays a different note and if I keep hitting middle c, it plays another note and it holds even if I'm not pressing the keys. I do not know if it is the problem with the cable, usb 2.0, my laptop has no usb 2.0, but only 3.0, the problem with the piano keyboard or the operating system. I use a Roland XP-10. It is an old piano.
I knew nothing about MIDI before watching your video. Now, I know about MIDI. The old time paper tape player pianos have come along way with today’s technology!
This is just amazing
Very detailed explanation about this MiDi device, it was full of info that I have search for a while, thanks&thanks for the upload.
This is the BEST VIDEO I've ever come close to learning the Knowledge of MIDI! Great Video!
Thank you for explaining midi i had no understanding of it
Been searching for awhile for this info. Thanks so much!! 💕
Thanks for the awesome explanation sir. I think the dislikes are from other youtubers who don't want people to watch this great explanation.
Thanks. I'm an older learner and I find it easy to get overwhelmed by jargon. This is great. Thanks again.
Thanks so much, I was so confused about this and it makes sense now!
So the short answer is that midi is a digital (think computer) system for recording data not music per se. It does not record or send/ receive an audio signal like the old tape machines etc. It records etc., only data. Like a computer it only stores the key you press, the velocity of that key, the duration and several other factors relating to the data of that key. Therefore, because you are NOT storing or sending /receiving audio you can easily manipulate it like a computer. If you misspell a word in a word processing program you can easily correct it later that sort of thing. In fact, using a computer and a digital workstation, think mixing board, you can later basically alter almost every aspect of your recorded MIDI, not audio, data. The pitch, notes, velocity, timing, everything. This is why half the MUSAK recorded today is really just computers which have been programmed to play a certain way there are no, or very few, actual musicians. However, don't expect to actually sound like Eric Clapton or Ginger Baker, unless perhaps you sample them, and yes they use computers to analyse sounds that occur on recordings to figure out whether you have stolen someone else's sounds and put them out there for commercial use and you will be sued to pay for it. It's great to have MIDI just don't expect it to replace an actual human musician. There are many nuances of playing that are basically pretty difficult to copy using just a computer. They are getting better though. So if you want to spend like $20,000 to get all the kewl stuff and you know how to play, at least keyboard, you can sound almost like an entire band.
Your comprehension is pretty much straight on! But that is one aspect of MIDI - there's much more! It can also be used to control other MIDI instruments (one MIDI device can control up to 16 MIDI devices by daisy chaining each device's MIDI IN and OUT jacks to the next device's). In fact, I use a Keytar (keyboard that straps around your neck like a guitar) when I want to go into the audience during a performance - it has a MIDI OUT which I hook a MIDI cable into, and the other end goes into my digital piano (on stage) so that when I play the Keytar, it actually sends the MIDI info to my stage piano, which in turn plays it as though I were sitting at that stage piano! MIDI also has other uses, like controlling stage lights from a keyboard, and other things. So basically my "intro to MIDI" only covered one aspect.
MIDI is just a means of transmitting notes and controller info. It doesn’t record and produce Muzak on its own.
By MIDI you just giving informations to computer which key you press, how strong and how long do you holding it. It depends of your DAW ( [ Digital Audio Workstation ] program for making music) and its plugins like Virtual Piano, Virtual Drums, Virtual Strings ... etc etc what sound you will get from your MIDI recorded file. Every plugin has its own scheme of keys (for example in drummer you can have C2 as kick and D2 as Snare, C4 as Crash and A5 as 1st Tom.... You can play and record Piano song then you can load your MIDI file to another instrument/plugin and you can get sound of organ on it. Also you can easily edit your file by erasing or moving or cutting the notes, balance the volume or length of it and save it as MIDI.Simply said MIDI is notation for Virtual instruments same like for musician is notation sheets. BTW you can play MIDI also in older mobile phones as ringtone since it works on the same basis. You just need to know which key is which tone or instrument in polyphony of phone.
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Thank youuu!! (5 years after)
Thank you. I play piano and was so confused about MIDI.
The keyboard I want to use has five effects/voice. I midi to have access to a lot of effects/sounds. Can that be possible
Thank you Sir! Very helpful for a beginner like myself. Much appreciated
Hello! Thank you, very helpful and aducational. Would you please create a video showing how to setup all the MIDI connections between two keyboards where you want to control one keyboard by another keyboard (both arranger keyboards). In my case I have a Yamaha Genos and a Korg pa3x76.
I have found a lot of videos on YoutTube showing, explaining what MIDI is, what the connecitons are (in, out, through) but I couldn't find anything explainng how to set it all up on the keyboards.
Great overview on midi! Many many thanks for this!
Hey Chuck! This is a great intro to MIDI, I’ll share this link for those who need a tutorial. I run into a lot of people with MIDI questions, what it is, which you’ve just answered in this video, but also how to set it up, what cables to use, how to use it with VSTs, how to route it out their MacBooks and through their audio interface so they can hear it on external speakers, etc... Perhaps a Part II - MIDI w/VST Setup would be beneficial? Thanks for the great work Chuck!
Best explanation ever!
I think you did a great intro to midi.
Right up my alley, I got a 75 page user manual for my Midi controller...😂
I am not actually an idiot, but I am stupid and this video was perfect for me, thanks for making it :)
Fascinating! Cheers😊
Thank you sir for this information ..simple and straightforward ❤️👍👍
Thank you, Chuck. No mysteries, now.
Thomas
Thanks man. You are a good teacher. Now I need to get some different sound for my Kawai ES110. Any suggestion appreciated.
honestly I didn't know what a MIDI plugs in my keyboard were there for.... THANKS..
Succinct and to the point. Great info. Thanks!
Such a nice guy 👍🏻👍🏻 Very helpful video
Thank you for making this video...i am understanding the concept of MIDI now.
Also by the way I got an Arturia Keylab 49 key MIDI as my Christmas Gift in December 2019. Over a Month later
& I'm yet to even Unbox it & set it up.
However when I finally do, I plan on making Videos of the Unboxing & Setup & also its Use.
What purpose do you intend to use it for?
Wonderful channel. Keep doing what you are doing. You are a great explainer.
I have been looking for an advice regarding buying a midi-controller. What do you suggest to buy between M-Audio Hammer 88, Komplete Kontrol S88, Arturia Keylab 88 MKII, Novation SL88 and Roland A-88. Considering the fact that I am looking for a good music production gear and software. Please help me out.
Thank you kindly for the video and excellent presentation.
Why do you need a MIDI out _and_ in, on your instrument? I understand the data going out to be sent to your computer/DAW, for recording, but what data would travel _back_ to your keyboard (from your computer) and for what purpose? Is that to take something pre-recorded and send it from your computer (DAW?) to your instrument so that it plays back the song on your instrument? Just want to make sure I'm understanding this.
Also, when you record in MIDI, as opposed to actual sound, are you still able to hear what you're playing as you record? Also when you've got the one piano hooked up to the other -- are you hearing the sound come out of the 2nd piano? And is there a way to hook up two pianos together where you get the sound of the 2nd piano playing through the speakers for the 1st?
The best midi video on youtube Thanks allot good goob
I hope I am able to use the Px560 as midi controller. If I can, i could buy a cheap rack expander and I'd have a really good instrument for rock bands gigging.
Hi Chuck! Thank you so much for the nicely explained video! I really enjoy watching your piano reviews. I have a question to ask. I'm planning to get a Yamaha P125 or Roland FP30. Both can produce MIDI through USB. Is it possible to import that MIDI file on a DAW , apply a virtual grand piano sound to it (with plugin I guess, tell me more about it), and convert it as a WAV file? Do I need any kind of audio interface to do that? And is it possible to convert that MIDI file to WAV, with the same piano sound produced by one of the pianos above? Thanks in advance!
Very helpful, thank you. I grew up playing acoustic pianos, but have an old Roland HP330 that I'm repairing and hoping to set up with its MIDI and a microphone as well. All brand new for me. A bit off topic, but do you recommend any open source software over others (PC)?
Great job. You make it playing and simple. Now it does work however there's a massive delay receiving it when the alone is going through the computer. Question I have is can there be any way the sound can go backwards as in instead of the computer the sound I want coming from the computer can go to the speakers on the keyboard?
Some great info in their. Didn't know you could daisy chain a couple of keyboards to play one through the other. Thanks for that.
You can actually daisy chain multiple keyboards with varying degrees of possibilities between them! I've barely scratched the surface in this video, but I'm glad its already taught you something new!
Nice work Chuck, thank you. Presume if you take out the piano piece via midi to computer/recorder, you can then not only correct the 'bad note' as you said, but also then play the corrected midi file back thru the midi in port of the piano and then it plays the original but corrected piece?
Correct!
Chuck, this by far is your best instruction video. I'll watch it again to see if I missed anything. I'd like to see a more in depth video on midi an example would be adding a second foot switch/pedal to your rig, perhaps connecting two keyboards together (you said it could be done but what does one need to do to get it right?). Otherwise, keep up the great videos. Sam.
Thanks, Sam. There seems to be a lot of interest in MIDI... so I'll most likely produce more of these type of videos. As for connecting 2 keyboards together - a MIDI cable (5-pin DIN at each end) that's connected from the MIDI OUT of one, to the MIDI IN of the other, and having them both set to the same MIDI channel is all you need to accomplish that. I know, easier said that done, right?
Hello. I'm watching you in 2021. Considering MIDI functionality--I would like to purchase a Casio Key Lighting keyboard ( I am a beginner). Have you a relevant video about such MIDI usage? Thank you
Hi, Question ?, i connect UMX250 Behringer to Sibelius for recording/notation, but when i press the UMX250 keys , unfortunately the voice comes delay to the speaker (beat/ tempo), please guide me how to fix this, thanks.
thanks Chuck! Peace out indeed :)
Roland A49 with additional drumpad for orchestral style organic music production or something else? I already have a basic 61 key arranger and I want the best combo of both to fulfill each other's gaps and tagteam them.
I have a yamaha psre353 as an arranger but I cant access it for now because of lockdown. I was planning to buy a midi keyboard with good keybed and minimum knobs and faders. Since I play piano style and am a beginner in DAW, I have no idea how important are knobs and faders and pads for things such as looping and all.
Is it better to buy a roland a49 along with a separate akaipad or buy something else? I want the best combo with my arranger since it can be used as a midi too but only for its keybed. I mostly play piano and strings but would love to start learning looping, altough I have seen mostly looping requires pads too in midi.
What will the best buy for me considering all of this? I'm really confused.