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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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Midi kick drum triggering with my shoe?

Go buy a midi drum module, either new or used (they were very popular in the 1980s and have quarter-inch audio jacks) and some acoustic drum triggers. …
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How do I send arbitrary MIDI SysEx messages from a Windows laptop to a MIDI device?

I'm thinking of getting a MIDI device that needs to be preprogrammed with MIDI SysEx messages before I can use it. I don't have a MIDI keyboard with that capability. … How do I send MIDI SysEx messages from my Windows 10 laptop to a MIDI device? …
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Use a laptop as a loop pedal

A lot of performers seem to be standardizing on Ableton Live for laptop looping in live situations. Here's an example of what you can do for hands-free looping. In this case, they're using a Mac b …
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What is the best way to create a Midi file of transcription of orchestral score from audio o...

It's quite a bit of work, but if you can sight-read the sheet music even at a very slow tempo, you could play a MIDI keyboard to input the MIDI data part-by-part into a digital audio workstation (DAW). … Reaper is free for trial use and has quite a good MIDI editor for correcting your mistakes. …
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Using Rhodes Plugin changes loop length in MPC Beats

You can use Edit|Sequence|Double Length to copy the entire track to the right. Or, if you want to repeat a subset of the loop, select the bars you want to copy, hit Ctrl+C and move the timeline marker …
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Ableton Live - Playing back MIDI tracks and freezes, replaying same note forever

This sounds like a MIDI feedback loop issue. … If joy is still absent, reset the MIDI preferences …
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How do I sync a Digitech SDRUM with a Boss RC-300 looper?

I would like to MIDI sync the Sdrum with a Boss RC-300 looper. The Sdrum can only be a MIDI master, not a MIDI slave. … In order to slave the RC-300 to the Sdrum I need a way to send MIDI message CC#64 with a value of 127 from the direction of the Sdrum to the RC-300. How do I do this? …
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How do I sync a Digitech SDRUM with a Boss RC-300 looper?

Next you need to convert the Midi Clock signal from the cable to MIDI CC#64 with a value of 127. To do this, get a MIDI message conversion box such as the Midi Solutions Beat Converter. … If you don't have the means to send MIDI SysEx messages from your DAW or keyboard then see How do I send arbitrary MIDI SysEx messages from a Windows laptop to a MIDI device? …
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How do you sync a Roland Boss RC 300 Loop Station to external rhythm sources?

Hook the drum trigger up to a midi percussion module with a midi out that has configurable midi messages. Edit the outgoing midi message from the percussion module to be CC#64 with a value of 127. …
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Using an Electribe 2 to sync with a Boss RC-300

In your sequencer (Ableton Live or Reaper or anything that can edit and play MIDI files should work) create a 1 or 2 bar clip. This will contain only control data, not any notes. … Point the track to the MIDI out of your computer, and connect that to the MIDI in of the RC-300, and voila! The RC-300 will follow whatever tempo your sequencer is playing at. …
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Using an Electribe 2 to sync with a Boss RC-300

I think the audio part's pretty straight forward but how do I configure the Electribe's MIDI out and the RC-300's MIDI In to do this? I have already tried the standard ways of syncing MIDI devices. … The RC-300 has a non-standard MIDI sync process that only allows it--so far--to be the MIDI slave of another RC-300. For example, see: http://vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php? …
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How do you sync a Roland Boss RC 300 Loop Station to external rhythm sources?

The RC 300 has MIDI master but not MIDI slave capabilities. And its rhythm tracks are awful. …
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