MIDI & the Piano Roll

Writing music without playing an instrument.

MIDI is the most powerful thing in the Studio and the most under-used. This course fixes that.

What MIDI is

Not audio. Instructions.

1. MIDI is not sound
2. Notes, velocity, length and channel
3. Connecting a keyboard, or using your computer keys
4. Recording MIDI live, or drawing it in

The piano roll

Every editing tool it gives you.

1. Drawing, moving and resizing notes
2. Velocity editing, and why it matters
3. Quantise, humanise and legato
4. Smart View, Smart Chords and the Arpeggiator
5. Transposing, and turning a melody upside down
6. Write a part three ways
7. Piano roll check

MIDI as a production tool

Beyond writing notes.

1. Changing the instrument after the fact
2. Doubling a part on a second instrument
3. Smart Chords and the Arpeggiator as production tools
4. Turning MIDI into audio, and when to commit
5. One part, four instruments
6. MIDI final