Questions tagged [midi]
MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is a protocol used to allow music hardware, software and other equipment to communicate with each other.
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Can MIDI variable-length quantities be forced to a consistent four bytes? [closed]
I am quite scatterbrained and I am suffering in writing a C program to compose MIDI files.
I'm currently planning to write two pseudo-MIDI files with C long int in the place of the variable-length ...
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How to map violin sounds to midi notes
There are some violin sounds available here :
https://philharmonia.co.uk/resources/sound-samples/
For A3 many mp3 files are given:
File Name, duration in seconds
violin_A3_025_forte_arco-normal, 0....
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Novation launchkey 61 mk2 + Linux? [closed]
Novation launchkey 61 mk2 + Linux ?? Maybe somebody has experience with its connecting ? I searched a lot in google, tried, but it's nothing worked. Keyboard isn't detected...
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How does controlling many instruments via MIDI work?
I saw that devices like Digitakt, Circuit Tracks, ... can control other instruments via MIDI. I also saw videos where the author controls two, three, ... synths with it. I understood on the ...
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Song-specific temperament [duplicate]
So equal temperament is a compromise to allow songs to be played without without having to retune them on the fly, to match the more consonant sounding just intonation intervals.
However, in a world ...
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Volca Sample with Beatstep Pro as Master Clock and Keystep Pro as Slave
I just added a Keystep Pro to my setup and am having difficulties integrating it with my existing gear.
My setup looks like this (with a few noted differences) and everything is connected via MDI.
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Choosing instrument played by midi pedalboard connected to keyboard
I got a 30 note pedalboard (with a 5-pin midi connector) that I want to use with my two keyboards (Yamaha P-155 and Kaway CA13) to play simultaneously on all three. The problem is that when I connect ...
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How can I assign randomly my midi inputs in ableton / maxmsp
I'd like to have a litlle program that would assign randomly (or partially randomly) my midi cc (from external keyboards and other midi devices) in Ableton and/or max msp.
Basically, every (or part) ...
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How to split multi-voice lilypond scores to multiple midi outputs (e.g. for choir practice)
After spending long enough learning lilypond and writing scores for multiple voices, I've often run into the problem of generating individual voice midi/mp3 files from the score. I was surprised to ...
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Yamaha P45 MIDI Capabilities / What are the requirements for controlling this keyboard with my computer?
Prefacing this post with a link to a post covering the same topic, but I'm having a hard time understanding if any of these solutions allow me to use my computer to change the instruments and ...
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How can I play a soundfont from my Casio AP-470 keyboard?
I was able to install and run LMMS with a pair of nice soundfonts. I would like to press the keys on my keyboard, and instead of obtaining the piano default sound and the sound from the laptop, I ...
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MIDI controller sending CC #123
I'm using an old Roland RD-200 electric piano as my MIDI controller. I'm seeing a lot of weird behaviour when using it, like the sustain pedal not working and notes getting cut off without playing a ...
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MIDI controller
I recently bought a second hand midi controller (Alesis Q49) and I' m trying to connect it to my p/c, so that I can play (not interested in recording). I've installed 'virtual piano', selected my midi ...
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How should one work with missing digital staff on entry level keyboard?
I am currently trying to find a good entry level keyboard for getting back to learning to play after 20 years. I had a few years of grade school classes playing a brass instrument and some self taught ...
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Logic Pro: I recorded a midi track without metronome, how can I metronome match it?
I recorded a midi track (playing along to a record) and didn't listen to the metronome in Logic. Logic had the metronome set to 120 when I played. The actual tempo of the song is 108. When I change ...
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Send Midi CC from DAW Live to Launchkey
I'm trying to set a specific pad of my Novation Launchkey to lit by sending it a Midi message in Ableton Live, like described in the Programmer's reference on page 6-7:
To light the bottom left drum-...
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MIDI controller static interference - is it a thing?
I have two MIDI controllers.
Some of them are sending data on their own (seem to happen with specific controls, more than others).
Is it static, EMI, or something else, and what can I do about it?
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Multi-track midi to sheet music [closed]
I am looking for music software that has the following features. I've looked extensively online. There are many packages that can do midi -> sheet music. However, I can't tell if they can do the ...
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Is there a format similar to MIDI that allows for hundreds of channels/instruments?
I have a soundtrack and each song has 16 channels/instruments. Nearly every song uses different instruments. For a project I'm working on, I need to have channels for every instrument used in the ...
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How can I map a sequence of midi notes to a scale in Ableton Live
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I am using a Midi Fighter 3D to play notes into Ableton Live (Lite in this situation, but I have a license for Suite if needed). The MF3D outputs 16 sequential MIDI notes for each of 4 banks ...
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How to sync DAW VST automations to live performance?
I'm looking for a tool to control VST instruments through my epiano midi.
My goal is to play a song, and having the DAW (or whatever) detect the tempo by analysing what I'm currently playing.
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Using MIDI with a split keyboard
I can split the sound with a keyboard (in this case a Roland FP2), and that works fine. However, I woud like to be able to use two sound modules, MIDIed so that each module has reference to the notes ...
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Switch General MIDI instruments from device? (Roland Sound Canvas, Reaper)
I have an Swissonic EasyKey61 MIDI keyboard, and it is connected to the VST plugin "Roland Sound Canvas" via Reaper.
I am wondering how sound banks/instruments (e.g. "Piano 1", &...
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Can Bitwig recognize pitch bend information from an .mid file?
I've been writing music in Python with the pretty_midi library. It has the ability to write notes, pitch bend, and/or control change information to a .mid file.
I've had great fun with the notes in ...
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converting midi track to software instrument track in Logic Pro
I have imported a Midi file into Logic Pro. Trying to change the tracks from midi tracks into software instrument tracks. When I select a software instrument, the music stops on the track and it goes ...
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How to Auto route Outputs for vocals in Ableton with a Midi Dummy?
here's my problem.
My band plays in bars every night and we have created Backing Tracks for all 300 Songs, some of them with Percusion Audio & Fx's... but 70% are just a Cue intro + the metronome.
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Adjusting the BPM for an odd rhythm (to render a MIDI)
Firstly, sorry if I'm missing something basic, but I'm new to standard notation.
I felt stuck because I'm doing a cover song @ 76 BPM, but I realized there's a lot note durations equal to 5 and 3 64th-...
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How can I transform a MIDI file of a vocal performance back into something that sounds like a voice? [closed]
Given a MIDI file how can I transform it something that sounds like the vocal cadences on the wikipedia.org/wiki/Candence entry? I understand that the end result will be an audio file and not a MIDI ...
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Flattening pedal information in Midi
I've got a midi file that was recorded on a Yamaha keyboard, and I'm trying to import it into LMMS. However, as far as I can tell, LMMS ignores pedal information when importing MIDI and it sounds ...
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Sustain pedal information in recorded Midi?
I realize this is a pretty model-specific question, but Reddit has amazed me before with its answers.
I have an old Yamaha DGX-620, that I'm using to do some composing. I've been using the song ...
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How to arm specific Reaper tracks using Behringer MIDI footswitch (FCB 1010)?
I'd like to switch the record arm of specific tracks in Reaper using a Behringer FCB 1010, which is a MIDI footswitch.
As an example, let's say I have 4 tracks in Reaper:
3 for guitar (same input, but ...
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Where can I find useful stuff to learn music production?
I'm trying to learn how to produce music. More specifically, I use a lot of MIDI for orchestral/chamber works. And as a classically trained musician, I don't find it useful when they start trying to ...
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Piano2MIDI How to record video of MIDI visualizer and real piano player integrated into one?
re.: How to record video of MIDI visualizer and real piano player integrated into one ?
There is a nice video of MIDI Visualizer playing back MIDI file
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Have MIDI file. Want Audio. Don’t know how
I have a very simple goal. I want to make a digital recording of myself practicing on a digital piano, play it back to myself, and share the audio with a friend.
My digital piano has a MIDI port. It ...
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Guitar Pro 7 - converting Midi to Ukulele
I am trying to convert a midi to a ukulele GCEA.
But as you can see from the screnshot below it's giving me some notes that do not have such notes.
There are not so many frets....
Can anybody please ...
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Ableton Live - Playing back MIDI tracks and freezes, replaying same note forever
So I'm playing a MIDI track in Ableton Live, and suddenly it starts replaying the same note forever. I've tried hitting stop twice, turning midi learning on/off twice, literally deleting the track, ...
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Can I download the same Keyboard 1 voice from my Yamaha P45 to use as a midi voice on my DAW
I am using Ardour as my DAW and I have a bunch of midi sounds in there, I use my Yamaha P45 as a midi controller to input the midi notes into my DAW.
However, I am currently using the Keyboard 1 voice ...
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In a piano midi file what all parameters(like time signature, duration etc) define how long a note or a chord is held pressed on the keyboard?
Kindly bear with my ignorance on music and the question comes from my project on blender using pythons music21 module. So my project is that if i pass a midi file, the code should create keyframes and ...
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Syncing clock to external midi with iPad
I am trying to integrate the ModStep iPad app into my setup. I have a Moog Matriarch and a Moog Mother-32. What I would like to do is sequence the Mother-32 using the ModStep iPad app and have the ...
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Yamaha SY99 floppy disk drive broken. Can I use something else?
The floppy disk drive on my Yamaha SY99 has been broken for over a decade.
As a result I am unable to save anything I do (new sounds or new music) and, once I turn the synth off, the data is gone. ...
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Synthesizer: why playing a second time the same note shut down the first one?
When playing on synthesizers, usually when playing a second time the same note, even if the release phase is very long or the sustain pedal is pressed, the first note is shut down. Put in another way, ...
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What is the purpose of 0-length midi notes?
I have several midi files that contain notes with 0 duration. There will be a note_on event, then the next event for the same note says note_off and the time attribute is 0. Is there a purpose to ...
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Roland RP401 - GM2 list
In the manual for my Roland RP401 digital piano it lists sounds for 1 to 41 for Other (sounds other than the piano sounds). For the rest it just shows that it is GM2 tones. I have found several lists ...
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Computer doesn't receive proper sustain pedal MIDI signals from digital piano? [closed]
When I connect my piano to my computer and press the sustain pedal, it just plays a C note. (Garageband, and Musescore.)
I have an Arius YDP-161 digital piano and a MIDI to USB converter. I use a ...
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Change MIDI octave before data reaches computer
I teach guitar. I was hoping to use a MIDI-enabled guitar, in combination with an iPad, to help students learn notes, practice sight-reading, and practice playing by ear. They would stay before or ...
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What is the rationale of electronic keyboards having the voices that they do?
It inevitably starts with a piano voice, then electric piano voices. Chromatically pitched percussion, guitars, strings, and so on, ending with drums. Even the most limited of keyboards have this ...
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Properly set up MIDI to USB
Essentially, I want to record myself playing the piano, which I've decided to do by recording the MIDI.
My hardware setup is a
Computer with Windows 10 x64
Yamaha P35
MIDI-to-USB cable
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Styles player for Yamaha DGX 660
I have a DGX 660 keyboard.
On this keyboard 200 styles files are preinstalled. But you can use 100 more...
2 ways exist: load them on the keyboard or use them on a USB key. The bank total can't exceed ...
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MIDI file displays with treble staff only
I have a MIDI file, installed Sibelius intending to have Sibelius read the MIDI file and display it as sheet music. It does. But treble staff only; the lower notes are all on ledger lines. It's a ...
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How to get Controller Assignments working with the Recorder part of Quick Sampler in Logic Pro 10.5?
I'm running into a weird bug/issue when mapping the record feature within Logic Pro 10.5's new quick sampler to a button on my midi controller:
I mapped the Record button to a button on my midi ...
