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- Learn the basic differences between audio and midi and when each is best used in music production!
When you're just starting out in the music world, it can be confusing to know the difference.
Hopefully this video helps clear up some of your confusion and gives you some extra knowledge when it comes to audio and midi recording!
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Hello there!
This comment's probably gonna get long maybe, but I thought I'd offer my input on MIDI and audio:
I like to think of MIDI as being a bit similar to how an old mechanical music instrument works. Old mechanical music devices, like music boxes for example, would use pins on a cylinder or disk, or holes punched into a disk or a strip of paper, or cardboard or metal. These pins or holes would essentially act like "sheet music" for the machine to play back; they represent which notes to play, when to play them, for how long to sustain them, the volume at which to play them and so on. So the holes or pins cannot produce sound on their own because they're only representing data. The machine that "reads" and "processes" that data would then convert the data into sound that you hear.
Also, because the pins or holes are just data, or "sheet music", the sound you hear could vary even though the notes might stay the same. For example you could theoretically take a cylinder that has a sequence of pins on it to represent notes, put it into a music-playing machine and then rotate the cylinder, and the pins would trigger a musical instrument that sounds like bells or chimes. But then, you could take that same cylinder and put it into another machine, and the pins would trigger the individual pieces of a drum kit! So the sequence of notes would be the same, but those notes would be triggering different sounds.
I'm not sure how great that analogy is, but I think this is pretty much exactly how MIDI notes work. But of course, MIDI data can represent more than just note information, it can also represent different effects like sustain control, filtering, and other cool effects. Audio, on the other hand, doesn't work like MIDI because it is not "sheet music" but rather an actual audio recording, like on a phonograph record or a CD. Many history articals will tell you that audio recording evolved from music boxes. But honestly I like to think that music boxes have more in common with MIDI than with audio, because they're more similar to MIDI than they are to audio recording as I explained above. So I would kind of rather say that MIDI evolved from music boxes, rather than audio evolved from music boxes:).
Also, on a side note, I'd just like to point out that MIDI notes can actually be used to trigger audio recordings. This is what samplers are for. If you've ever seen Launchpad covers of techno/electronic dance music songs on TH-cam for example, this is exactly what's going on.
Feel free to reply with your thoughts on this! And have a nice day:))
I have my exam on multimedia in a few hours, and i was really struggling to understand the difference between these two, but thanks to you now i understand it ❤ ☺️
From a total beginner, excellent! Thanks very much.
Great video. Spent about 30 minutes troubleshooting some unintended behavior between my JUNO-DS and Ableton. Video helped me connect the dots and fix it right away. Thank you!
Omg lol I've been spending the last month on FM synthesis then came to this.. It's like giving my brain a break
Hi. You mentioned virtually everything I believe and do. That's good for me. You've clarified I'm doing the right things. Very good an clearly explained Video, man, specifically for Beginners. My main concern otherwise is why most people record and mix in Audio?
I can comprehend the differences between the types of recording the two are and why they are different. But I wanted to ask you two quick questions: The first is - -> the fact that I am an avid writer but am very very clueless as to "How" to much less make a single track piano recording in MIDI, and I need an education of how to learn and identify all the program's features/buttons, what they all do, and why I need them. In short, I need to know how to go from -1) I have a song I want to record, I need to be taken step by little step and learn how to get started, and all the way through. But my second Q is 2) How do I/Where do I get an education in all this? I write from the heart - No, literally, I use my playing as a psychological release. I dump my emotion onto the keys, as almost a form of expression, or "venting my emotion" and releasing it. It is on this approach that I have a gift. I close my eyes and just "let go" and the result is an audiable representation of whats in my heart and soul. The passion comes through but I dont even know I am doing it, I am tapping into those feelings, where i feel like my hands are talking, in a languaage only I understand. My wife and I are true soulmates, because she can also tell exactly whats happening to me. In the first week we met, I played for her, and because she is gorgeous, many guys have said the same thing, "I am an amazing (instrument) player," and they pull out an instrument (usually a guitar) and they are copycate artists- some a little better then others. When it came to me, she heard me talking about playing and t0 see if I am just like all the rest, she asked me to play for her. Well, I went into one of my favorite songs and I literally incapacitated her. She was amazed. I tend to almost tell a story when I write. And it always has very dynamic song structure, again because our souls are complex. Anyway, my point is, on this first play i did for her, I put her into such a translike state, that she was embarrassed, never having that happen to her before when she opened her eyes (which began open at the start, with low expectations. Well, the opposite occureed and even shocked her. but when she came out of this trance she said something I will never forget, as she was teacheing me what it was that i was doing. She heard me tell a story of all sorts of emotion, sad - to slight optomism the bad will change, to repeated lost hope that will happen and it never does, to some mix of optomism, back to the Verse (without words, but the same playing as the first time through, repeating the same melody again. THen I exit the verse through a bridge, to the chorus, and after the 3 time through I always to a musical interlude and jam out with my treble hand, brig it back to the bridge/chorus; and then an outro and end. When I picked my head up and looked over at my (now wife) she too was eyes closed, and she slowly opens them up and looks at me and said the most amazing thing I will never forget - cause she totally "got me," - she said, "That was the first time you told that stor." Mu jaw dropped. NO ONE saw it that way ever before in my life like that but me, and its been 12 years since that day and no one has and no one will. But she saw me, and what music meant to me.
Sorry got off track, but I need to know how to put these creations down in music edit software so I can edit and add more amazing things to the rough draft and master them and share them. i am now forced to learn how to navigate through a DAW. And was wondering if you knew where or if you could give me a pointer that will help my learning process go alot faster.
And with this gist, which is true because I was recruiting musicians, drummer to be exact, to work with and sent him some songs I recorded with my smart phone. He was so amazed that he didnt believe it was all only me that created those songs. He said, "You, you wrote all these, they werent your renditions of someone else?" I answered, "No way, of course they are all mine." He said, "Either your lying or you have a serious gift! I am (he's talking) 62 yrs old and I have never heard so much versatility come from one person - no two songs even remotely sound the same, they all have this common thread of passion but you go from soft and innocent-like, to upset or angry, with mood changed in between, all of them in different time signatures, and most of all, all different styles. I (still him) have never heard such amazing but completely different styles come from the same person." It was two yeears ago I heard this and it was then I started to look in the mirror and ask I am good enough to record. So I started to record on my phone and I have over 200 recordings. But they are horrible sound quality. Hence my need to figure out this recording stuff.
I mainly wrote to you today because I purchased the Focusrite 4i4 and although I did everything the video instruction told me to do, I cant get the speakers to work, my headphones to work, the sound on my computer is gone now messing with this. I cant open and start a file and just play and record it. I have no clue. But it be great to be able to sit down and "dump my day," as I call it and do it without feeling like I am reading Mandarin.
Thanks for reading my story. Anyone who is curious is I am telling the truth Message me and I will send you 5 song samples. I will prove to anyone who challenges me, I am not only full of shit, but I will earn you respect (if you too are a musician with passion for music). FB search me - I am in Burlington NJ, Matt Dallmann. Find me on FB Messenger and ask for samples. As to the original post, please help me find a way to learn this program so that I can use it freely to record my daily playing as I invested in all this and cant get not onbe thing to work, not even the headphones...
This needs more views it was very informative.
Thank you sir!
agree
Agree as well. 3 years later I found this and its very clear!
Awesome explanation. But I have a question, if I want to use 2 keyboards, does 1 keyboard needs to be a MIDI keyboard?
I got confused over the differences,thanks
Explained excellently.
Hello I found your video very interesting and I have now a question. If I record my Tyros 3 $5000.00 keyboard digital arranger workstation, how to get the best audio sound out of it, would it be recording directly to the internal hard drive of the keyboard or using a mixer to a Digital external interface? Or simply just use a USB stick and transfer the recording from the keyboard's internal hard drive that used its own onboard recorder? The problem with the USB stick is that I don't get the small wave format on audacity to look the same as your wave format on your pc audio software. When recording internally what should the volumes be set at so I get an audio wave that looks likt little arrows as in your video. Mine are simply wide and no clipping at all.
SO ALL MIDI FILES MUST NECESSARILY BE CONVERTED TO AUDIO AFTER PLAYING RIGHT?
thank you. When sending stems to engineers to mix down, should we convert the MIDI to audio?
Although it will depend on the engineer, I would say in general they will want audio. The reason is that they might not have the same keyboard/virtual instruments as you do and if you give them the MIDI, all they will have at that point are the notes & controller data...no sound. That being said, some engineers might actually want the MIDI file...so check with them and see what their request is.
Well needed information, thanks man.
Sorry I new to to MIDI - so can you only use VST instruments using MIDI?
is the sound for multitracks recorded with actual real instruments in the studio? like real guitars or real electronic piano keyboards hookekd up to electrical cables hooked up to the computer and multitrack equipment etc ? or is it same as .mid or .midi midi file and is the song and the sound recorded in the studio with aritificial synthetic instruments with sound effects with software on computer made by computers which stores musical score information ?
Another beginner. When at the stage of applying effects, I'm guessing that's not done on those midi "notes"?
Which one gives a better sound quality when recording a digital solo piano and classical piano music?
thats what I’m wondering. I wanna know how accurately MIDI can record my piano. Did you find out the answer yet?
@@motivated9336 not clearly, but when I tried the piano with mid sound with vst mini grand it sounded nice but a bit similar as when I connect a camera directly to the piano, ( I use a special camera that is designed to be connected directly to musical instruments) perhaps the camera sound can sound a bit to murky if I have the wrong settings ,but there was something nice about the midi vst mini grand when I listen to the quality of the tones on the lower tones and the upp tones, they sounded really beautiful. However the G# tone right below C1 tones sounded to me a bit like an electrical piano. I am not sure if it is just me but I could hear other frequencies. I asked a non musician to listen but this person did not react to anything unusual regarding a piano sound. Otherwise the vst sounds really nice.
It really depends on the quality of the VST you're using or on the flip side, what digital piano you're using. I would say in general, the VST is going to give you a clearer, higher quality sound as the sound engineers that recorded the VST most likely used top of the line recording gear. If you have a nice digital piano and a good way to record the audio, then you may hear less of a difference. When you record directly into the camera, make sure the volume level of the piano isn't overpowering the camera...that will cause a downgrade in quality. Hope this helps!
Dude ever heard of synthesizers? That's where the magic that is MIDI comes to shine. You only mention "keyboards" which are much more inferior. Ever heard of filters/effects/an instrument's parameters you can manipulate through automation lanes, or mapping the parameters on a midi controller and record automations in real time? Or editing the velocity of notes played? Midi has so much more to offer than notes and a sustain pedal lol. The only drawback is that with midi tracks and virtual instruments, the CPU and audio interface (soundcard) usage is much higher.
Seams to me you somewhat missed the point; this was just a video to give the general differences between MIDI and audio. I don't think the guy was trying to exclude synthesizers or only mention "keyboards" because he's unaware of synthesizers. This wasn't ment to go very in-depth about MIDI, but just to give an overall difference between MIDI and audio. What he said was accurate.
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Duh Midi Is Panio
And Audio Is Audio
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