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Summary: MIDI stands for musical instrument digital interface, and it is used by different musical devices that need to communicate, such as sound cards, electronic keyboards or electronic drums. Discover how MIDI can be used to make an acoustic instrument an electronic instrument with help from an experienced drummer in this free video on musical instrument digital interfaces.
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"What is midi used for? Midi of course is musical instrument digital interface and it's basically a language so that musical devices of different kinds can talk to each other so sound cards, electronic keyboards, electronic drums like these, et cetera can all work with each other. Many used for a number of different things including making electronic instruments out of something that would normally be acoustic. So for example, with this drum set all of these sounds are using many samples to create an electronic drum set sound from something that is electronic. If I had a keyboard a midi keyboard I can get these exact same sounds just from pressing three different keys. So, these sounds are independent of the type of instrument that is being used to play them. You can also use midi to record because midi is number one. The file size is that you usually get when doing midi recording are pretty small and it's very easy to combine midi songs with instruments sample. So, as you can see there's no you can overlap and you can stack midi very easily so I can be playing a midi song and adding in my drum samples to it and it will work pretty much flawlessly then you can transfer this over to a computer and then you can use those midi created songs for any number of things including audio for videos, instructional videos really any number of things."
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