What is Pro Tools MIDI Data?

Series Summary

Today’s digital musical equipment and recording software like Pro Tools and GarageBand have made it possible to get professional quality recordings from your own home recording studio. Some of the most creative and innovative music being produced today is made by those outside the mainstream music industry. With the right combination of quality microphones, amps, instruments and inspiration you can put together your home studio and start creating the album of the year today. In this series of free video clips you’ll learn how to use your own recording software in your own home. Expert musician and studio engineer RT Ouk shares tips on the various ways you can use Pro Tools MIDI information and manipulate it. He takes you step-by-step through the process of busing and using other devices you’ll need to start recording your own music. By following the simple steps in these free videos you can build a home recording studio capable of creating professional production quality recordings.

Video Transcript

"Next I'm going to go over some different techniques that I use to edit my midi data. When editing midi data, there's a lot of different tools, and a lot of different tool boxes within pearl tools that helps you and kind of gives you short cuts as far as editing. But usually the best way to do is really just to go in and manually edit certain things. So what I'm going to do is show you how to manually go in and fix certain mistakes and edit certain things as far as like recording data and trying to split up the notes and trying to separate things and really get everything really organized in a good way, you can see it and manipulate it in a way that's very easy to do. When doing this in recording the midi data, you got to remember that the midi data is just data that tells the computer what to play or tells keyboard what to play and the midi data is not actually sound. It triggers the sound within certain sound modules and certain machines and things like that, but the midi data is very useful as far as like controlling the data and manipulating the data. You can also use that data in other machines and transfer all the things you manipulated and all the little velocities and durations and attacks and releases, you can bring all that to another platform and use it. And that's why it's so powerful."