Week 16 - Posted on 2013-09-25 by Jeremy Duplisea

This weeks lesson was focused on Midi and music sampling.   Tara and I begun the session by reviewing the quiz in the recording connection note book. After this discussion we moved on and practiced putting MIDI into a Protools session.  We were able to record a small MIDI selection and play around with that.   I have to acquire some MIDI cables so I can practice more at home with this section of engineering.  We talked about MIDI time code and its importance in recording multi able MIDI track.  Time code is a reference point used so that all audio lines up perfectly (or as close to perfect) with a video production.  Next we talked more about sampling.  Sampling is the recall of digital information stored on a computers RAM.  

Side note:  Daft Punks new album is call random access memories which is RAM and if you have listened to the album most of it is samples of digital music recalled from RAM. Just thought this was an interesting thought.

The basic way MIDI works.

When recording MIDI, with a keyboard for example, when a key is hit on the keyboard that information is converted into MIDI language and then stored on the computer.  During playback the processed is reverse and we hear the sounds we recorded.