How to Make an MIDI

Video Transcript

"Hi this is Gary Vandy from garyvandy.com, here at Studio Center. In this clip we are going to talk about how to make a MIDI file. A MIDI files means musical instrument digital interface, it is a file that helps you control synthesizers, soft sense. It actually captures everything about the musical performance, except for the music. You can only recreate it when you have that synthesizer or that instrument hooked up to it. If you play the MIDI back, and it plays what you have played into it formerly, and it will pay it back, because you have captured that performance electronically, and with two binary language into a sequencer. We are going to go to the computer, and let me show you what I am talking about. As you can see I have set up an instrument track in Pro Tools to record some MIDI on, an instrument track is just basically a MIDI track along with an auxiliary track for play back. I've got reason up, and I've got a little electric piano sound down there. In order to record MIDI, like I say I'm going to hit press and I'm going to hit record, and I have nothing in record so it is not going to work. I'm going to put that track into record ready, and I'm going to hit record. And as you can see the to recording. Now I'm going to record the notes that I play in MIDI. You see there, you can see representation of the keys that I am hitting. It's not recording any audio, all it is recording is the keystrokes. So that it can play the keystrokes back again through the same keyboard when I have stopped. Okay I'm going to stop this now. This is basically your MIDI file, if I highlight it you will see that it is this MIDI file 101. I can take this MIDI file from place to place, from sequencer to sequencer, it is very easy to do. In Pro Tools all I do is go to file, export, and it will say export MIDI. I'm going to save this as MIDI file multi-track, because I want to save everything. And I'm just going to hit okay, and title it as demo, and I'm going to hit that, and the file is now saved. It will come out where ever you put it, and you can bring it to anywhere, any place. This is Gary Vandy, thanks for watching."